Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Introduction to heliophysics
- 3 Creation and destruction of magnetic field
- 4 Magnetic field topology
- 5 Magnetic reconnection
- 6 Structures of the magnetic field
- 7 Turbulence in space plasmas
- 8 The solar atmosphere
- 9 Stellar winds and magnetic fields
- 10 Fundamentals of planetary magnetospheres
- 11 Solar-wind– magnetosphere coupling: an MHD perspective
- 12 On the ionosphere and chromosphere
- 13 Comparative planetary environments
- Appendix I Authors and editors
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- References
- Index
4 - Magnetic field topology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Introduction to heliophysics
- 3 Creation and destruction of magnetic field
- 4 Magnetic field topology
- 5 Magnetic reconnection
- 6 Structures of the magnetic field
- 7 Turbulence in space plasmas
- 8 The solar atmosphere
- 9 Stellar winds and magnetic fields
- 10 Fundamentals of planetary magnetospheres
- 11 Solar-wind– magnetosphere coupling: an MHD perspective
- 12 On the ionosphere and chromosphere
- 13 Comparative planetary environments
- Appendix I Authors and editors
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- References
- Index
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- Heliophysics: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos , pp. 77 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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