Many approaches exist for scientific investigations and space research is exception. The early approach during which each space plasma region within the Sun-Earth system was investigated separately with physics-based tools has w progressed to encompass investigations on coupling between these regions. Ample evidence w exists indicating the dynamic processes in these regions exhibit disturbances over a wide range of scales both in time and space. This new reckoning naturally leads to an emerging perspective of probing these natural phemena with concepts and tools developed in modern statistical mechanics for physical processes governing the evolution of out-of-equilibrium and complex systems. These new developments have prompted a topical conference on Sun-Earth connection, held on February 9-13, 2004 at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA, with the goal of promoting interactions among scientists practicing the traditional physics-based approach and those utilizing modern statistical techniques. This mograph is a product of this conference, a compilation of thirty-nine articles assembled into seven chapters: multiscale features in complexity dynamics, space storms, magnetospheric substorms, turbulence and magnetic reconnection, modeling and coupling of space phemena, techniques for multiscale space plasma problems, and present and future multiscale space missions. These articles show a diversity of space phemena exhibiting scale free characteristics, intermittency, and n-Gaussian distributions of probability density function of fluctuations in the physical parameters of the Sun-Earth system. The scope covers the latest observations, theories, simulations, and techniques on the multiscale nature of Sun-Earth phemena and underscores the usefulness in cross-disciplinary exchange needed to unravel the underlying physical processes, which may eventually lead to a possible unified description and prediction for space disturbances. It includes extensive collection of state-of-the-art papers on multiscale coupling of Sun-Earth Processes. It also features present and future multiscale space missions, and new techniques and models for performing multiscale analysis.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Elsevier Science & Technology
ISBN-10
0444518819
ISBN-13
9780444518811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94696089
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Meteorology
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Oxford
Edited by
Y. Kamide, A.T.Y. Lui, G. Consolini
Content Note
Illustrated
Out-Of-Print Date
07/11/2009
Date of Publication
06/07/2005
Imprint
Elsevier Science Ltd
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
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