The Dynamic Loss of Earth's Radiation Belts: From Loss in the Magnetosphere to Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere

ISBN-13: 9780128133712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 344 str.

Allison N. Jaynes; Maria Usanova

Recenzje

"In summary, the uncertainties about Earth's magnetosphere continue to be enormous, challenging and open to discussion. They are to the point that nowadays we can not state if the presence of a magnetosphere is necessary to make a planet habitable or not. Indeed, recent research hypothesizes that it could have been an indispensable ingredient to support the formation of biological molecules in our planet, by interaction with coronal mass ejections from the Sun [24]. The book edited by Jaynes and Usanova provides insight on some of the topics related to the study of the magnetosphere. Through its nine chapters and with the contribution of twenty-six leading researchers in the field, it covers from theoretical issues to observations. Probably, the biggest downside of this book is that it does not provide an introduction to the topic discussed. To be fair, the text is a collection of highly technical papers, presented as chapters. The chapter that is closer to an introduction, and that could work as the first one to be shown is chapter three. However, this chapter sometimes becomes hard to read, as it contains twenty pages of references, almost the same number as the main text. In this way, the book is aimed at specialists in the field. And anyone that is looking for introductory material should avoid it. The book is presented in three different formats, with similar prices for the paperback and ebook editions. We reviewed the paperback edition, and it looks fine. All the figures are in colour, something not common in many books and highly appreciated. However, the price seems excessive. This feeling comes above all from the little effort that appears to have been done to put a finest edited book together beyond simply collecting papers. In this way, unless you are a specialist very interested in the topic, it could be hard to invest over one-hundred dollars for a paperback edition or ebook. Not to say the bundle edition that comes at a price of three hundred dollars." --Contemporary Physics

Spis treści

I. Radiation belt losses: outward transport and magnetopause shadowing II. Radiation belt losses: wave-particle interactions III. Radiation belt losses: high- and low-frequency wave-particle interactions IV. Ionospheric effects of particle precipitation V. Energetic Particle Precipitation (EPP) and chemistry VI. Effects of EPP on terrestrial atmosphere and weather systems