Research Catalog

Title

Sun, earth, and sky / Kenneth R. Lang.

Author

Lang, Kenneth R.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

xv, 282 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 cm

Subjects

• Earth (Planet) > Popular works
• Sun > Popular works
• Astronomy > Popular works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-269) and indexes.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Good Day, Sunshine. 1.1. The Rising Sun. 1.2. Fire of Life. 1.3. Sunlight. 1.4. Daytime Star. 1.5. Cosmic Laboratory. 1.6. Ingredients of the Sun. 1.7. Children of the Stars. 1.8. Describing the Radiation. 1.9. Invisible Fires -- Ch. 2. Energizing the Sun. 2.1. Awesome Power, Enormous Times. 2.2. The Sun's Central Pressure Cooker. 2.3. Nuclear Fusion, Anti-Matter and Hydrogen Burning. 2.4. Diluting the Radiation -- Ch. 3. Ghostlike Neutrinos. 3.1. The Elusive Neutrino. 3.2. Neutrinos from the Sun. 3.3. Detecting Almost Nothing. 3.4. Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem -- Ch. 4. Taking the Pulse of the Sun. 4.1. Trapped Sounds. 4.2. Ode to the Sun. 4.3. Looking Inside the Sun. 4.4. Breaking the Symmetry. 4.5. Back to the Future -- Ch. 5. A Magnetic Star. 5.1. Islands of Intense Magnetism. 5.2. Bipolar Sunspots, Magnetic Loops and Active Regions. 5.3. Cycles of Magnetic Activity. 5.4. Internal Dynamo --
• Ch. 6. An Unseen World of Perpetual Change. 6.1. The Sun's Visible Edge Is an Illusion. 6.2. The Million-Degree Corona. 6.3. Closed Coronal Loops and Open Coronal Holes. 6.4. The Dynamic Ever-Changing Corona. 6.5. The Eternal Solar Wind. 6.6. Ulysses. 6.7. The Distant Frontier -- Ch. 7. The Violent Sun. 7.1. Energetic Solar Activity. 7.2. Solar Flares. 7.3. Flare Radiation from Energetic Electrons. 7.4. Energizing Solar Flares. 7.5. Erupting Prominences. 7.6. Coronal Mass Ejections. 7.7. A Composite Model for Energetic Solar Activity -- Ch. 8. Energizing Space. 8.1. The Ingredients of Space. 8.2. Probing the Solar Wind. 8.3. Earth's Magnetic Cocoon. 8.4. Penetrating Earth's Magnetic Defense. 8.5. Storing Invisible Particles Within Earth's Magnetosphere. 8.6. Active Experiments in Space. 8.7. Northern and Southern Lights. 8.8. Geomagnetic Storms. 8.9. Astronauts and Satellites in Danger. 8.10. Contemporary Solar-Terrestrial Research --
• Ch. 9. Transforming the Earth's Life-Sustaining Atmosphere. 9.1. Fragile Planet Earth - The View from Space. 9.2. The Life-Saving Greenhouse Effect. 9.3. The Earth's Changing Atmosphere. 9.4. Our Sun-Layered Atmosphere. 9.5. The Inconstant Sun. 9.6. Solar Ultraviolet and Terrestrial Ozone. 9.7. The Vanishing Ozone. 9.8. Healing the Planet -- Ch. 10. Fire and Ice. 10.1. Clear Skies and Stormy Weather. 10.2. Turning on the Heat. 10.3. Solar Radiation and Global Warming. 10.4. Consequences of Overheating the Earth. 10.5. Life in the Fast Lane. 10.6. Over the Long Haul.

ISBN

3540587780 (Berlin : acid-free paper)

LCCN

95006109

OCLC

ocm32050358

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries