Space Weather Monitoring by Ground-Based Means: PC Index

By Oleg Troshichev and Alexander Janzhura

Preface, - 1. Physical backgrounds and origin of the idea, - 2. Concept of the PC index, 3. Unified procedure for on-line calculation of the 1-min PCN and PCS indices, - 4. Validation of the unified procedure, - 5. Differences in summer and winter PC indices and their physical reasons, - 6. Response of PC index to sudden pulses in the solar wind dynamic pressure, - 7. PC index as an indicator of the substorm development, - 8. PC index as an indicator of the magnetic storm development, - 9. PC index as an input to monitor the disturbances in the polar ionosphere, - 10. Relationship between magnetic activity in the polar cap and atmospheric processes in the winter Antarctica, - 11. Solar wind - magnetosphere coupling in the light of the PC dynamics, - Con

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642438059
• ISBN13: 9783642438059
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"