Overview
- Summary of the largest project (6 years) within an international SCOSTEP program
- SCOSTEP is the largest scientific organization of solar/terrestrial physics
- Several hundred scientists involved worldwide (appr. 120 in Germany)
- Solar/terrestrial issues receive increasing attention in climate science
- Scientific results on highest level, qualified by international review process
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences (SPRINGERATMO)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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About this book
CAWSES (Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System) is the most important scientific program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics). CAWSES has triggered a scientific priority program within the German Research Foundation for a period of 6 years. Approximately 30 scientific institutes and 120 scientists were involved in Germany with strong links to international partners. The priority program focuses on solar influence on climate, atmospheric coupling processes, and space climatology.
This book summarizes the most important results from this program covering some important research topics from the Sun to climate. Solar related processes are studied including the evolution of solar radiation with relevance to climate. Results regarding the influence of the Sun on the terrestrial atmosphere from the troposphere to the thermosphere are presented including stratospheric ozone, mesospheric ice clouds, geomagnetic effects, and their relevance to climate. Several chapters highlight the importance of coupling mechanisms within the atmosphere, covering transport mechanisms of photochemically active species, dynamical processes such as gravity waves, tides, and planetary waves, and feedback mechanisms between the thermal and dynamical structure of the atmosphere. Special attention is paid to climate signals in the middle and upper atmosphere and their significance relative to natural variability.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES)
Book Subtitle: Highlights from a Priority Program
Editors: Franz-Josef Lübken
Series Title: Springer Atmospheric Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4348-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4347-2Published: 14 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7854-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4348-9Published: 14 August 2012
Series ISSN: 2194-5217
Series E-ISSN: 2194-5225
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 634
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Environment, general