Ionospheres
Ionospheres
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DOI：
10.1088/0741-3335/43/2/701
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
R W Schunk and A F Nagy
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作者：
R W Schunk and A F Nagy
这本书简洁的标题掩盖了一个伟大的讨论和细节的广度不仅关于电离层本身，但所有这些物理和化学过程后，他们的特点，动力学和能量依赖。经过描述性的场景设置前两章介绍太阳系中性和电离大气，它迅速全面地进入数学的基本机制，如等离子体分布函数，碰撞过程，13矩运输方程，扩散和冲击。这要求读者在数学方面具有良好的研究生水平的敏捷性，尽管它是以逻辑和清晰的方式写的，但这可能会阻止经验较少的读者。相反，对于从事等离子体和空间物理工作的人来说，这将是受欢迎的参考材料，对他们来说，这类材料是必不可少的，但很难在一份出版物中获得。在许多其他事情中，接下来是对影响的广泛讨论。这就是作者的决心，提供一个完整的工具包，了解电离层是如何形成的，他们的能量来源和汇，以及他们的耦合到行星大气层，第一个真实的提到地球的电离层没有出现，直到一半以上的方式通过这本书。然而，它并没有在地球电离层停留不成比例的时间，而是以与其他行星、其卫星和彗星的电离层相称的权重来对待它。因此，在我看来，这不是一本适合那些正在寻找关于地球电离层及其现象学的全面论文的书;其中有几本已经出版了。相反，这本出版物站在除了采取从第一原则一般看电离层。此外，虽然其他人经常从地心的角度看待地球的电离层，但这项工作采取了更全球化的观点，就像从地球之外看待系统一样。它应该被证明是优秀的研究生或专业的最后一年的学生作为教程，并作为大气科学家和等离子体物理学家的参考书。它的价值，为学生大大提高了问题设置在最后的章节，并通过其广泛的附录，提供了基本的数学方程和模型参数等，设置的问题，但是，主要是数值或公式推导，并排除在更多的描述性章节（例如空间环境、测量技术）;因此，学生似乎被要求测试他们的数学能力，而不是他们的哲学理解。另一方面，许多数学问题适合于对电离层没有直接兴趣的等离子体物理专业的学生。关于电离层测量技术的最后一章似乎有点多余和不完整，但提供的一般参考应该能够满足被激起的胃口。《电离层》这本书我预计会成为研究实验室和大学图书馆书架上的标准书籍。两位作者在这一主题领域前沿的65年经验，无疑为敬业的学生和学者提供了一个健全可靠的知识基础。M J Jarvis博士，地球空间-大气传递函数，英国南极调查局，Madingly Road，剑桥CB 3 0 ET
The succinct title of this book belies a great breadth of discussion and detail regarding not only ionospheres themselves but all those physical and chemical processes upon which their characteristics, dynamics and energetics depend. After a descriptive scene-setting first two chapters introducing solar system neutral and ionised atmospheres, it moves rapidly and comprehensively into the mathematics of the underlying mechanisms such as plasma distribution functions, collisional processes, 13-moment transport equations, diffusion and shocks. This requires the reader to have good graduate-level agility in mathematics and, although it is written in a logical and lucid fashion, this may deter readers with less experience. Conversely, it will be welcome reference material for those whose work is in plasma and space physics and for whom such material is essential and yet difficult to come by in a single publication. There follows, amongst many other things, an extensive discussion of influences. Such is the authors' determination to provide a complete toolkit for understanding how ionospheres are formed, their energy sources and sinks and their coupling to the planetary atmosphere, that the first real mention of the layers of the Earth's ionosphere does not appear until over half-way through the book. It does not dwell on the Earth's ionosphere for a disproportionate time, however, but treats it with commensurate weight to the ionospheres of the other planets, of their satellites and of comets. Therefore, this is not, in my view, a book for those who are looking for a comprehensive treatise on the Earth's ionosphere and its phenomenology; there are several of those already in print. Instead, this publication stands apart as taking a generic look at ionospheres from first principles. In addition, whereas others often look at the Earth's ionosphere from a geocentric perspective, this work takes a more global view as if looking on the system from outside the planet. It should prove excellent both as a tutorial for postgraduate or specialist final-year students and as a reference book for atmospheric scientists and plasma physicists. Its value for students is greatly enhanced by the problems set at the end of most chapters and by its extensive appendices which provide fundamental mathematical equations and model parameters, etc. The set problems, however, are predominantly numerical or formulaic derivations and are excluded from the more descriptive chapters (e.g. Space Environment, Measurement Techniques); therefore the student appears to be asked to test their mathematical ability more than their philosophical understanding. On the other hand, many of the mathematical problems would suit plasma physics students with little direct interest in ionospheres. The final chapter on ionospheric measurement techniques seems a little superfluous and patchy but the general references supplied should be able to satiate whetted appetites. Ionospheres is a book which I anticipate will appear as a standard on bookshelves both in research laboratories and university libraries. The combined sixty-five years of experience of the two authors at the cutting-edge of this topic area should certainly provide a sound and reliable knowledge-base for dedicated students and academics alike. Dr M J Jarvis Geospace-Atmosphere Transfer Functions, British Antartic Survey, Madingly Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET