Air Force Research Laboratory

Space Vehicles Directorate

Battlespace Environment Division

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Handbook of Geophysics and

Space Environment

1985


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Handbook

Chapter 1 - THE SUN

Chapter 2 - SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE

Chapter 3 - SOLAR WIND

Chapter 4 - THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD

Chapter 5 - THE RADIATION BELTS

Chapter 6 - GALACTIC COSMIC RADIATION AND SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES

Chapter 7 - THE CHARGING OF SPACECRAFT SURFACES

Chapter 8 - MAGNETOSPHERIC AND HIGH LATITUDE IONOSPHERIC ELECTRODYNAMICS

Chapter 9 - IONOSPHERIC PHYSICS

Chapter 10 - IONOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION

Chapter 11 - SOLAR RADIO EMISSION

Chapter 12 - THE AURORA

Chapter 13 - INFRARED AIRGLOW

Chapter 14 - STANDARD AND REFERENCE ATMOSPHERES

Chapter 15 - ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES, DENSITY AND PRESSURE

Chapter 16 - WATER VAPOR, PRECIPITATION, CLOUDS AND FOG

Chapter 17 - WINDS

Chapter 18 - OPTICAL AND INFRARED PROPERTIES OF THE ATMOSPHERE

Chapter 19 - ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION

Chapter 20 - ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY

Chapter 21 - ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION

Chapter 22 - ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION AND ABSORPTION OF ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION

Chapter 23 - GEOKINETICS

Chapter 24 - GEODESY AND GRAVITY

Chapter 25 - INFRARED ASTRONOMY

Appendix

Index