Space Weather Monitoring by Ground-Based Means: PC Index - Softcover
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Synopsis
Preface,- 1. Physical backgrounds and origin of the idea,- 2. Concept of the PC index, 3. Unified procedure for on-line calculation of the 1-min PCN and PCS indices,- 4. Validation of the unified procedure,- 5. Differences in summer and winter PC indices and their physical reasons,- 6. Response of PC index to sudden pulses in the solar wind dynamic pressure,- 7. PC index as an indicator of the substorm development,- 8. PC index as an indicator of the magnetic storm development,- 9. PC index as an input to monitor the disturbances in the polar ionosphere,- 10. Relationship between magnetic activity in the polar cap and atmospheric processes in the winter Antarctica,- 11. Solar wind - magnetosphere coupling in the light of the PC dynamics,- Conclusion
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