Description: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to space weather: the physical phenomena that result from the interaction of the sun and the planets. Physics of the Space Environment explores the basic processes in the sun, in the interplanetary medium, in the near-Earth space, and down into the atmosphere. It summarizes fundamental elements of transport theory relevant for the atmosphere, ionosphere and the magnetosphere, then applies this theory to physical phenomena in the space environment. The book emphasizes both the fundamental physical processes and basic concepts and methods. Students and researchers with a basic math and physics background will find this book invaluable in the study of phenomena in the space environment.

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