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020			_a 9780894640711
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a551.514 _bT181i2
100			_aTascione, Thomas F.
245			_aIntroduction to the space environment [2nd ed.] _cThomas F. Tascione
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_bKrieger Publishing Company _c2010 _aMalabar
300			_axi, 159p
440			_aOrbit a foundation series
490			_a/ edited by Edwin F. Strother
520			_aThis reprint of the second edition includes a new chapter--Space Weather Services. The purpose of this chapter is to define space weather nowcast and forecast requirements for the commercial space weather community. A nowcast is a short-range forecast usually on the order of 1 or 2 hours lead tie. This is the only textbook on the space environment written for the novice which covers all the major topics in space physics. The reader is expected to have a solid background in introductory physics; therefore, this edition is most useful as a text for senior-year college or first-year graduate students. Topics include plasma physics, solar physics, solar wind processes, geomagnetism, magnetospheric physics, physics of the neutral atmosphere, ionospheric physics, ionospheric variability, radiowave propagation in the ionosphere, and space environmental effects on spacecraft.
650			_aAtmostphere
650			_aSun
650			_aIonosphere
650			_aSpace plasmas
942			_cBK
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