from Karel Schrijver
A fourth volume in the “Heliophysics” series will be released by Cambridge University Press (CUP) on March 17, 2016, entitled “Heliophysics: Active stars, their astrospheres, and impacts on planetary environments”. This volume, edited by C. Schrijver, F. Bagenal, and J. Sojka, expands the topics related to the Sun-Earth connections presented in the preceding three volumes to other bodies in the solar system and to extrasolar planetary systems.
CUP (at cambridge.org) offers a 20% discount (on pre-orders, and throughout 2016 after the book becomes available) with discount code “heliophy”: www.cambridge.org/9781107090477
The same discount (with the same code) applies to the hardcover and paperback editions of the preceding three “Heliophysics” volumes, subtitled “Plasma physics of the local cosmos”, “Space storms and radiation: causes and effects”, and “Evolving solar activity and the climates of space and Earth”.
A provisional 5th volume on “Space Weather and Society” can be freely downloaded from: www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/science-resources-textbooks.shtml
The Heliophysics books aim at the advanced undergraduate and at graduate-level students, taking the perspective of heliophysics as a single intellectual discipline. The books touch on most branches of heliophysics, with particular emphasis on universal processes and on the multi-disciplinary character of many of its diverse range of specialties. The list of topics includes the formation of planetary systems, astrophysical dynamos, heliospheric perturbations, particle acceleration, cosmic-ray modulation, interactions of the solar wind with planetary magnetospheres, impulstive and explosive events, irradiance and the tropospheric climate system, ionospheric processes, and impacts of space weather on satellites and for manned space flight, among many more.
The Heliophysics book series has its origins in the Summer School series of the same name. Many of the recorded lectures, problem sets, lab manuals, and other online supporting materials can be accessed at the School’s site at www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/