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.
Description and table of contents:
Volume I:
"Heliophysics: Plasma physics of the local cosmos"
1) Introduction and summary
2) Introducing Heliophysics
3) Creation and destruction of magnetic fields
4) Magnetic reconnection
5) Magnetic field topology and electrical currents
6) Magnetic field structures: cavities and ropes
7) Field-plasma-neutral interactions
8) Comparative magnetospheres
9) Turbulence: macro- and micro-scale
10) Comparative planetary environments
11) Solar/stellar environments
12) Solar/stellar winds and magnetic fields
13) Solar wind/magnetosphere/ionosphere couplings
14) Coronal mass ejections and flares
15) Magnetospheric storms and substorms
Appendices:
1) On-line resources: data archives, modeling sites, space weather forecasts.
2) Descriptions on packages for numerical modeling
3) Problem sets.
Volume II:
"Heliophysics: Explosive energy conversion and energetic particles"
1) Introduction and summary
2) Introducing explosive energy conversion
3) Introduction to energetic particles
4) Solar and stellar eruptions, flares, and jets
5) Terrestrial (sub-)storms and planetary counterparts
6) Galactic particle radiation processes
7) Solar-heliospheric particle processes
8) Comparative planetary radiation belts
9) Shock acceleration of particles
10) Energy loss: collisions, scattering, radiation
11) Radiative energy signatures associated with energetic particles
12) Particles from solar surface to near Earth
13) Generation and transport of particles within magnetospheres
14) Particle effects on biological tissue
15) Particle impacts on technological systems
Appendices:
1) On-line resources: data archives, modeling sites, space weather forecasts.
2) Descriptions on packages for numerical modeling
3) Problem sets.
Volume III:
"Heliophysics: The Earth's climate system and long-term solar activity"
1) Introduction and summary
2) Introducing long-term couplings in the Sun-Earth system
3) Variations of solar/stellar activity and of Earth's climate
4) Climate modeling
5) Internal and external drivers of climate
6) Problem areas in climate modeling
7) Long-term solar variability
8) Long-term variability of the heliosphere
9) Long-term variability in geospace
10) Dynamo to climate: magnetic fields and particles
11) Dynamo to climate: solar irradiance
12) Astrophysical dynamo action
13) Planetary dynamos
14) Stellar dynamo modeling
Appendices:
1) On-line resources: data archives, modeling sites, space weather forecasts.
2) Descriptions on packages for numerical modeling
3) Problem sets.