Research Catalog

Title

Physics of the aurora and airglow.

Author

Chamberlain, Joseph W. (Joseph Wyan), 1928-2004.

Publication

New York, Academic Press, 1961.

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Details

Description

704 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

International geophysics series, v. 2

Uniform Title

International geophysics series ; v. 2.

Subject

• Auroras
• Meteorological optics
• Radiation
• Auroras > Bibliography
• Meteorological optics > Bibliography
• Radiation
• 38.71 terrestrial magnetism, electricity and heat
• Auroras
• Meteorological optics
• Physik
• Polarlicht
• Noorderlicht
• Airglow
• Aurores
• Physique de l'atmosphère
• Luminescence atmosphérique

Genre/Form

• Bibliography
• bibliographies.
• Bibliographies
• Bibliographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography.

Contents

• RADIATION IN SPECTRAL LINES: Temperature and thermal equilibrium -- The classical theory of spectral lines -- Quantum concepts of spectral lines -- Molecular bands -- Excitation and ionization processes -- SCATTERING OF RADIATION IN FINITE ATMOSPHERES: Equation of radiative transfer -- Applications of the transfer equation to photometry -- The X- and Y-functions in problems of radiative transfer -- Correction of photometric observations of the airglow for tropospheric scattering -- MAGNETIC FIELDS, CHARGED PARTICLES, AND THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE: The geomagnetic field -- Motions of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields -- Propagation of electromagnetic waves in an ionized atmosphere -- The ionosphere -- Model atmospheres -- OCCURRENCE OF AURORAE IN SPACE AND TIME: Geographic distribution and periodic variations -- Characteristics of auroral displays -- Aurorae and related phenomena -- AURORAL SPECTROSCOPY AND PHOTOMETRY: Spectral identifications -- Spectral photometry of aurora -- THE RADIO-AURORA: Observed characteristics -- Theory of auroral reflections -- PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE AURORAL ATMOSPHERE: Proton bombardment -- Electron bombardment -- Atmospheric electrons -- Theory of the auroral spectrum --
• AURORAL PARTICLES IN SPACE: Interplanetary space -- Auroral particles in the geomagnetic field -- THE AIRGLOW SPECTRUM: Nightglow -- Twilight and day airglow -- ANALYSIS OF TWILIGHT OBSERVATIONS FOR EMISSION HEIGHTS: Apparent heights Zg: the shadow of the solid earth -- Height measurements with atmospheric screening -- Height and vertical distribution of observed emissions -- THEORY OF THE TWILIGHT AND DAY AIRGLOW: Resonance scattering and fluorescence for an optically thin layer -- Excitation of N2+ first negative bands -- Photon scattering by atmospheric sodium -- Photochemistry and ionization of atmospheric sodium -- Theory of the oxygen red lines -- Excitation of other emissions -- SPECTRAL PHOTOMETRY OF THE NIGHTGLOW: Methods of height determinations -- Spectroscopic temperatures -- Intensities, polarization, and geographic and time variations -- EXCITATION OF THE NLGHTGLOW: Introduction: mechanisms of nightglow excitation -- Excitation by recombination in the ionosphere -- Excitation by particle collisions -- Photochemical reactions in an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere -- Excitation of emissions from minor constituents.

LCCN

61014136

OCLC

• ocm00907942
• 907942
• SCSB-234526

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library