+353-1-416-8900REST OF WORLD
+44-20-3973-8888REST OF WORLD
1-917-300-0470EAST COAST U.S
1-800-526-8630U.S. (TOLL FREE)

Solar Activity, Events, and Galactic Cosmic Radiation. Effects on the Earth's Atmosphere: An Introduction

  • Book

  • December 2021
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 4894856

Solar Activity, Events, and Galactic Cosmic Radiation: Effects on the Earth's Atmosphere: An Introduction give students and researchers in Atmospheric Science, Solar Physics and Climatology a more concise perspective on the Earth's atmospheres and how they are affected by solar emissions. It reviews a wide range of topics relating to the effects from solar activity on the Earth's climate, including impacts on the energy budget, the effect of emissions on tides and dynamics, how solar emissions change on different time scales, and the ramifications of modeling paleoclimates.

By providing greater insight on how solar emissions change as they travel through the atmosphere, this book guides the reader on how to present these emissions, along with observations and indices.

Table of Contents

1. Magnetosphere/Plasmasphere
2. Exosphere
3. Thermosphere
4. Ionosphere
5. Mesosphere
6. Stratosphere
7. Troposphere
8. The Global Electric Circuit

Authors

Kira Brianne Shonkwiler Emissions Inventory Specialist, Air Pollution Control Division, Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, Colorado, USA. Kira Shonkwiler is a micrometeorologist who enjoys learning and educating. Her love of outdoors was fostered while growing up in beautiful Ames, Iowa where she started her career at 18 working in agricultural and air quality research. She has a B.S. in Meteorology from Iowa State University, M.S. in Agronomy from Kansas State University, and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University. Dr Shonkwiler's 17+ years in academia brought many field research adventures and experiences relating to emissions measurements.