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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora |
I10906 |
2002 |
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora |
I06081 |
2007 |
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
Physics of Magnetospheric Substorms |
I02438 |
1977 |
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
Polar and Magnetospheric Substorms |
I01816 |
1968 |
eBook |
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
Dynamics of the Magnetosphere |
I01287 |
1980 |
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| Title | Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora |
| Author(s) | Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2002. |
| Description | XXXVIII, 235 p. 208 illus., 14 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies. Thus, young researchers, in particular, have to learn how to persevere during the period of controversy and struggle for acceptance. Unfortunately, the skills needed are not taught in textbooks or monographs, which mostly describe the consensus of contemporary experts. This book, which is based on my own experiences as a scientist, describes the history of the progress made in auroral science and magnetospheric physics by providing examples of ideas, controversies, struggles, acceptance, and success in some instances. Although no general methodology (if any exists) is mentioned, I hope that the reader will learn about the history of progress in auroral science and examples (right or wrong) of dealing with the controversies |
| ISBN,Price | 9780306479700 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GEOPHYSICS
7. Geophysics/Geodesy
8. Heavy ions
9. NUCLEAR PHYSICS
10. Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
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| Title | Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora |
| Author(s) | Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2007. |
| Description | XXXV, 288 p. 40 illus., 20 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This new edition of Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora is based on the author's own experiences as a scientist. It describes the history of progress made in auroral science and magnetospheric physics by providing examples of ideas, controversies, struggles, acceptance, and success. Although no general methodologies are mentioned, the hope is that the reader will learn about the history of progress in auroral science and examples of dealing with the many controversies. This book aims to help young scientific researchers learn how to persevere during periods of controversy and struggles for acceptance. In this second edition, by utilizing multiple examples, Akasofu is successful in demonstrating the importance and usefulness of Synthesis. "Probably the book's most valuable contribution to the history of space physics is precisely the narration of the discovery of substorms.---The book has special features.---Akasofu's coverage of the history of pre-space age solar-terrestrial relations is the most comprehensive among books on the subject known to me.---It is a unique mix of science, history, philosophy, and exhortation." -George Siscoe, Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387450971 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
4. Astronomy???Observations
5. ASTROPHYSICS
6. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. GEOPHYSICS
10. Geophysics/Geodesy
11. Heavy ions
12. NUCLEAR PHYSICS
13. Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
14. Observations, Astronomical
15. SPACE SCIENCES
16. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Physics of Magnetospheric Substorms |
| Author(s) | Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1977. |
| Description | 617 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Man, through intensive observations of natural phenomena, has learned about some of the basic principles which govern nature. The aurora is one of the most fascinating of these natural phenomena, and by studying it, man has just begun to comprehend auroral phenomena in terms of basic cosmic electrodynamic processes. The systematic and extensive observation of the aurora during and after the great international enterprise, the International Geophysical Year (lGY), led to the concept of the auroral substorm. Like many other geophysical phenomena, auroral displays have a dual time (universal- and local-time) dependence when seen by a ground-based observer. Thus, it was a difficult task for single observers, rotating with the Earth once a day, to grasp a transient feature of a large-scale auroral display. Such a complexity is inevitable in studying many geophysical features, in particular the polar upper atmospheric phenomena. However, it was found that their complexity began to unfold when the concept of the auroral substorm was introduced. In a book entitled Polar and Magnetospheric Substorms, the predeces?? sor to this book, I tried to describe the auroral phenomena as completely as possible in terms of the concept of the auroral substorm. At that time, the first satellite observations of particles and magnetic fields during substorms were just becoming available, and it was suggested that the auroral sub storm is a manifestation of a magnetospheric phenomenon called the magnetospheric substorm |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401011648 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
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| Title | Polar and Magnetospheric Substorms |
| Author(s) | Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1968. |
| Description | 298 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | It has become increasingly clear that the magnetosphere becomes intermittently unstable and explosively releases a large amount of energy into the polar upper atmos?? phere. This particular magnetospheric phenomenon is called the magnetospheric sub?? storm. It is manifested as an activity or disturbance ofvarious polar upper atmospheric phenomena, such as intense auroral displays and X-ray bursts. Highly active conditions in the polar upper atmosphere result from a successive occurrence of such an element?? ary activity, the polar substorm, which lasts typically of order one to three hours. The concept of the magnetospheric substorm and its manifestation in the polar upper atmosphere, the polar substorm, has rapidly crystallized during the last few years. We can find a hint of such a concept in the term 'polar elementary storm' introduced by Kristian Birkeland as early as 1908. However, we are greatly indebted to Sydney Chapman, who established the basic foundation of magnetospheric physics and has led researches in this field during the last half century. Indeed, the terms 'polar magnetic substorm' and 'auroral substorm' were first suggested by Sydney Chapman. The concept of the substorm was then soon extended by Neil M. Brice of Cornell University, and Kinsey A. Anderson and his colleagues at the University ofCaliforrlia, Berkeley, who introduced the term 'magnetospheric substorm'. We owe many of these recent developments in magnetospheric physics to the great international enterprise, the International Geophysical Year (IGY) and subse?? quent international cooperative effort (IGC, IQSY) |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401034616 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
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| Title | Dynamics of the Magnetosphere : Proceedings of the A.G.U. Chapman Conference ???Magnetospheric Substorms and Related Plasma Processes??? held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., U.S.A. October 9???13, 1978 |
| Author(s) | Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1980. |
| Description | 657 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The Los Alamos Chapman Conference on Magnetospheric Substorms and Related Plasma Processes can be considered the fourth in a series devoted to magnetospheric substorms, after the Moscow (1971), Houston (1972), and Bryce Mountain (1974) meetings. The main motivation for organizing the Los Alamos Conference was that magnetospheric substorm studies have advanced enough to the point of bringing experimenters, analysts and theorists together to discuss major substorm problems with special emphasis on theoretical interpretations in terms of plasma processes. In spite of an extremely heavy schedule from 8:30 A.M. to 10:00 P.M., every session was conducted in an enjoyable and spirited atmosphere. In fact, during one of the afternoons that we had put aside for relaxation, John Winckler led a group of the attendees in a climb to the ceremonial cave of a prehistoric Indian ruin at Bandelier National Monument, near Los Alamos under a crystal blue sky and a bright New Mexico sun. There, they danced as the former dwellers of the pueblo had, perhaps as an impromptu evocation of a magnetospheric event |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400995192 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GEOMORPHOLOGY
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