Solar Activity and Earth’s Climate (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences)
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2006-03-16
List price: $159.00
The main purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the subject of solar activity and the connection with Earth’s climate. It commences with a brief review of the historical progress on the understanding of the solar-terrestrial connection and moves on to an objective scrutiny of the various hypothesis. The text focuses on how knowledge about the solar cycle and Earth’s climate is obtained. It includes discussion of observations, methods and the physics involved, with the necessary statistics and analysis also provided, including an examination of empirical relations betwee...