Why Textbooks?
The sub-disciplines within Heliophysics have a rich variety of available textbooks, but no textbooks currently exist that present the diverse materials from their common physical principles, and help teachers well-versed in one discipline to teach the directly related areas within other disciplines.
Three affordable textbooks will be produced for each year of the Summer School. The books will be aimed for senior level undergraduates, graduate students and beginning postdoctoral students in all of the sciences related to climate physics, space physics, and heliospheric and solar physics, plus relevant branches of astrophysics and plasma physics. The three textbooks will cover all of the topics in heliophysics.
NOTE: The Heliophysics textbooks will be published by Cambridge University Press. All appendices will be online. The physical textbooks will not have 'numerical modeling descriptions' nor 'problem sets'.
Description, table of contents and provisional textbook covers:
Heliophysics I:
"Plasma physics of the local cosmos"
Cambridge Press: Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521110617)
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
On-line Appendices:
1) Data archives, modeling sites, space weather forecasts
2) Descriptions on packages for numerical modeling
3) Problem sets
Heliophysics II:
"Space storms and radiation: causes and effects"
1) Perspective on heliophysics
2) Introduction: space storms and radiation
3) In situ detection of energetic particles
4) Radiative signatures of energetic particles
5) Observations of solar and stellar eruptions, flares, and jets
6) Models of coronal mass ejections and flares
7) Shocks in heliophysics
8) Particle acceleration in shocks
9) Energetic particle transport
10) Energy conversion in planetary magnetospheres
11) Energization of trapped particles
12) Flares, CMEs, and atmospheric responses
13) Energetic particles and manned spaceflight
14) Energetic particles and technology
On-line Appendices:
1) Data archives, modeling sites, space weather forecasts
2) Descriptions on packages for numerical modeling
3) Problem sets
Heliopysics III:
"Evolving solar activity and the climates of space and Earth"
1) Formation, evolution, and demise of stars and their planets
2) Planetary habitability on astronomical time scales
3) Long-term evolution of magnetic activity of Sun-like stars
4) Astrophysical dynamo actions and stellar dynamo models
5) Solar internal flows and dynamo action
6) Planetary fields and dynamos
7) The evolving heliosphere and its particle environment
8) Solar spectral irradiance: measurements and models
9) Long-term evolution of the geospace climate
10) Planetary ITM-magnetosphere processes and the solar cycle
11) Waves and transport processes in planetary atmosheres
12) Climate couplings via (photo-)chemistry
13) Records of climate and climate drivers
14) External influences on planetary climates
15) Climate models of Earth and planets
16) Heliophysics - epilogue
On-Line Appendices:
1) Data archives, modeling sites, space weather forecasts
2) Descriptions on packages for numerical modeling
3) Problem sets