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Storms from the Sun -- Table of Contents
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Foreword by Dr. James Van Allen, discoverer of Earths radiation belts
Prologue: Here Comes the Sun A series of sunspots and flares in 2001 coinciding with major work on the space station suggests why we should care about space weather
Chapter One: The Day the Pagers Died The great stormy period of April-May 1998 made the world take heed of the death of a satellite
Chapter Two: Sun-Eating Dragons, Hairy Stars, and Bridges to Heaven The mythology and cultural history of space weather
Chapter Three: A Sudden Conflagration The scientific and human tales from the first great global space weather event (September 1859)
Chapter Four: Connecting Sun to Earth History of space weather from William Gilbert to the Starfish nuclear test
Chapter Five: Living in the Atmosphere of a Star The physics of space weather, from the center of the Sun to the surface of the Earth
Chapter Seven: Fire in the Sky The great storm of 1958 brings the aurora to Broadway and demonstrates the effect of space weather on radio, television, and navigation systems
Chapter Eight: A Tough Place to Work How space weather affects satellites, and why that matters to those of us on the ground
Chapter Ten: Seasons of the Sun Solar cycles and the connection to earthly climate
Chapter Eleven: The Forecast How scientists tracked and predicted space weather during the satellite-killing storms of January 1997 and July 2001
Epilogue: Over the Horizon Space weather circa 2012...
Appendix A: Selected Reading Appendix B: Selected Web Sites Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Photo credits: NASA, Big Bear Solar Observatory/NJIT, and NASA |
Chapter Six: The Cosmic Wake-Up
Call The great storm of 1989 blacks out Quebec, revealing how
space weather upsets electric power systems
Chapter Nine: Houston, We Could
Have a Problem The great solar flare of August 1972 provided a
harrowing lesson on the sun's effects on humans in space