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Earth-affecting Solar Transients

Editors:

  1. Jie Zhang

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, FAIRFAX, USA

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  2. Xóchitl Blanco-Cano

    1. Geophysics Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico

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  3. Nariaki Nitta

    1. Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics L, Palo Alto, USA

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  4. Nandita Srivastava

    1. Udaipur Solar Observatory, Udaipur, India

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  5. Cristina H. Mandrini

    1. Ciudad Universitaria, IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • Devoted to the recent advancement in the study of Earth-affecting solar transients

  • Addresses a broad range of subjects relevant to current research on Earth-affecting solar transients including major solar flares, CMEs, ICMEs, solar energetic particle events, and corotating interaction regions

  • Based on the International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) project, whose goal is to understand the origin, propagation, and evolution of solar transients, and develop the prediction capability of space weather

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About this book

Earth-affecting solar transients encompass a broad range of phenomena, including major solar flares, CMEs, ICMEs, solar energetic particle events, and corotating interaction regions.​

In the past decade, nearly continuous observations of the Sun and the inner heliosphere with an unprecedented wide spatial coverage from a fleet of spacecraft, including STEREO Ahead/Behind, SDO, SOHO, Messenger, Venus Express, ACE and WIND, in combination with a significant advancement of global MHD numerical simulation and theoretical analysis, have greatly improved our understanding of solar transients and the prediction of their potential impact on Earth.

This Topical Collection is based on the International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) project, initially launched in 2013 to bring together scientists from many countries to join efforts on studying solar transients. ISEST became one of the four research projects of the Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI) program, sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) for the period of 2014 – 2018.

Originally published in the journal Solar Physics, volumes 292 (2017) and 293 (2018).
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Keywords

  • Solar-terrestrial relations
  • Geomagnetic disturbances
  • Solar transients
  • Space weather
  • Coronal mass ejections
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, FAIRFAX, USA

    Jie Zhang

  • Geophysics Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico

    Xóchitl Blanco-Cano

  • Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics L, Palo Alto, USA

    Nariaki Nitta

  • Udaipur Solar Observatory, Udaipur, India

    Nandita Srivastava

  • Ciudad Universitaria, IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Cristina H. Mandrini

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About the editors

Dr. ​Jie Zhang is professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is an expert on solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

Dr. Xóchitl Blanco-Cano is professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her research areas are the physics of the solar wind and space plasmas.

Dr. Nariaki Nitta is senior staff physicist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. His interests include transient phenomena on the Sun and their possible impacts on the heliosphere.

Dr. Srivastava Nandita is professor at Udaipur Solar Observatory, India. Her research focuses on space weather, coronal mass ejections, and filament eruptions.

Dr. Cristina Mandrini is professor at the Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, CONICET-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is working on the emergence, evolution and interplanetary impact of the solar magnetic field.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Earth-affecting Solar Transients

  • Editors: Jie Zhang, Xóchitl Blanco-Cano, Nariaki Nitta, Nandita Srivastava, Cristina H. Mandrini

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1569-8Published: 26 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1657-2Published: 29 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 744

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 264 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Originally published in the journal Solar Physics, volumes 292 (2017) and 293 (2018)

  • Topics: Solar Physics, Space Physics, Astrophysics

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Softcover Book USD 179.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Hardcover Book USD 179.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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