The aurora watcher's handbook /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Fairbanks :
University of Alaska Press,
1992.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22211 |
Table of Contents:
- Matters of immediate concern to Aurora watchers:Cause of the Aurora (briefly explained)
- Hints for watching and photographing the Aurora: Hints for watching Aurora
- Hints for photographing Auroras
- Suggested observing program for the Aurora watcher interested in investigating Auroral, sound
- Some basic facts and definitions: Auroral Zone
- Auroral Oval
- Auroral displays
- Auroral forms
- How to locate Auroras and other phenomena in the sky
- Brightness of Auroras
- Auroral color patterns
- Auroral breakup
- Incoming particles that cause Auroras
- Kinds of Auroras: Main types
- Discrete Auroral forms
- Names applied to discrete Auroral forms
- Homogeneous and rayed discrete Auroras
- Auroral rays
- Pulsating Aurora
- Hydrogen arc
- Other kinds of Aurora, or special conditions
- Enhanced Aurora
- Flickering Aurora
- Flaming Aurora
- Black Aurora
- Fast Auroral waves
- Veil
- Temporal variations in the Aurora: Range of temporal variations
- Extremely long-term variations
- Long-term variations
- 11-year Solar cycle variations
- Seasonal variations
- Magnetic storm variations
- Substorm variations
- Short-term variations
- Color prints
- For those who want to learn more: Auroral colors and their causes: How atoms and molecules in the atmosphere produce Auroral light
- Altitude effects
- Causes of the various Auroral color types
- Aurora seen from space: Photographs from satellites
- Auroral imagery using scanning photometers
- Acquisition of DMSP Auroral images
- Views of the Auroral Oval and of Auroral Substorm variations
- Short catalog of DMSP images
- Control of the Aurora by the Earth's magnetic field: Cause and shape of the Earth's magnetic field
- Guidance of charged particles by the geomagnetic field
- Giant magnetic bottle up in the sky
- Entry of energy and charged particles into the magnetosphere
- Auroral conjugacy: Meaning and implications of Auroral conjugacy
- Observations of Auroral conjugacy
- Causes of Auroral motions and shape changes: Auroral motions of global scale
- Large-scale Auroral motions
- Small-scale Auroral motions
- Summary
- Artificial Auroras and chemical look-alikes: Artificial Auroras
- Chemical tracers and Aurora look-alikes
- Magnetic field line tracer experiments
- Aurorally related phenomena: Replenishment of the Van Allen Belt
- Modification of the high atmosphere and the ionosphere
- Other Aurorally related phenomena
- Folklore and legends: Names for the Aurora
- Eskimo legends of the Aurora
- Other beliefs and legends
- III
- Auroral mysteries: Unknowns about Auroral processes
- Aurora and weather
- Mystery of Auroral sound: Selected extracts or summaries of reports on hearing Auroral sound
- Possible mechanisms for Aurorally associated sound
- VLF electromagnetic wave mechanism
- Coronal discharge mechanism
- Glossary
- Suggested further reading
- Index.