InhaltsangabeSource of Figures.- Preface.- Prologue.- 1. Search for the Unknown Quantity in the Solar Wind.- 2. Confronting Paradigms: Aurora Research During the Early Space Age.- 3. Realizing the Dream of our Pioneers: Polar Magnetic Substorms and the Associated Current System.- 4. Is the Earth's Dipole Really Off-Centered and Inclined? Planetary Magnetic Fields.- 5. Myth of the Emerging Flux Tubes: Sunspots and Solar Flares.- 6. Synthesis of the four Major Disciplines: Predicting Geomagnetic Storms as a Space Weather Project.- 7. Beyond the Inner Heliosphere: The Magnetic Field Structure of the Outer Heliosphere: A Three-Dimensional Model. Epilogue.- Further Readings: Mostly Historical.- Name Index.- Index.

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InhaltsangabeSearch for the Unknown Quantity in the Solar Wind.- Confronting Paradigms: Aurora Research During the Early Space Age.- Realizing the Dream of Our Pioneers: Polar Magnetic Substorms and the Associated Current System.- Synthesis of Magnetospheric Substorm Phenomena.- Planetary Magnetic Fields: Is the Earth's Dipole Really Off-Centered and Inclined?.- Recurrent Geomagnetic Disturbances and the Solar Wind.- Myth of the Emerging Flux Tubes: Sunspots and Solar Flares.- Space Weather Research.- Beyond the Inner Heliosphere: The Magnetic Field Structure of the Outer Heliosphere: A Three-Dimensional Model.