Space weather

Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

12-1-2007

Abstract

Ever since the development of the electrical telegraph in the mid-nineteenth century, the effects of Earth's space environment on technologies have posed challenges to designers and operators of many technical systems. The possible systems that can be impacted by the space environment have grown over the last century and one-half from ground based communications and electrical grid technologies, to space-based systems that include communications, national security, precision location determination, and human space flight. The need for ever more detailed understanding of the space environment and its response to solar-produced disturbances continues to grow in order to be able to predict and mitigate detrimental operations and disruptions by space-originating processes. This chapter outlines some history of the effects of space processes on technologies, and discusses the wide range of contemporary technologies whose designs and operations are influenced by the basic fact that Earth's space environment is not benign. The aspects of the space environment that can affect human technologies wherever they may be deployed - from Earth's surface to the outer reaches of the solar system - are identified as space weather. © 2007 Springer-Verlag.

Identifier

84872108162 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9783540463146]

Publication Title

Handbook of Solar Terrestrial Environment

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46315-3_17

First Page

423

Last Page

443

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