This e-book is, in a experience, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer publication Weird Astronomy (2010). while Weird Astronomy prolonged over a vast variety of simply astronomical subject matters, the current paintings concentrates on phenomena toward domestic; the atmospheric and "shallow area" occasions in place of deep area occasions. the road among astronomy and meteorology is blurred - a incontrovertible fact that is mentioned in Weird Weather. it isn't basically a booklet of "wonders" or of the unexplained, even supposing the various issues lined stay mysteries. it's basically directed towards those who find themselves eager about weather and climate, and who're open-minded whilst contemplating Earth's weather, what drives it, and what are the explanations of weather switch. the writer, David A. J. Seargent, provides the evidence with a balanced and medical approach.
Weird climate: stories of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies is set unusual, strange, and it seems that inexplicable observations of the air and sky. essentially those are within the Earth's surroundings, yet there are corresponding phenomena within the atmospheres of alternative planets of the sunlight method - lightning on Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, whirlwinds and dirt storms of Mars, and auroras on Jupiter. subject matters comprise anomalous lighting fixtures, anomalous sounds, excellent results of cloud illumination via the solar or Moon, lightning phenomena, electrophonic sounds of lightning, aurora and meteors, twister and whirlwind phenomena on the earth and Mars, ordinary atmospheric results, mirages, and the prospective astronomical impacts on cloud and climate.
Read Online or Download Weird Weather: Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies (Astronomers' Universe) PDF
Similar Astronomy books
Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
We all know that there are issues nobody can see, for instance, the air you are respiring or a black gap, to be extra unique. yet no longer we all know that what we will be able to see makes up in simple terms five percentage of the Universe. the remainder is completely invisible to us. The invisible stuff is available in varieties—dark topic and darkish power.
The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
The background and perform of historical Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on technological know-how to carry readers into direct touch with the paintings of old astronomers. whereas tracing rules from historic Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the booklet locations its maximum emphasis at the Greek interval, whilst astronomers built the geometric and philosophical principles that experience made up our minds the next personality of Western astronomy.
Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Black holes are a relentless resource of fascination to many as a result of their mysterious nature. This Very brief creation, addresses a number of questions, together with what a black gap really is, how they're characterised and came across, and what might ensue in case you got here too with regards to one. Professor Katherine Blundell appears on the likely paradoxical, mysterious, and fascinating phenomena of black holes.
Additional info for Weird Weather: Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies (Astronomers' Universe)
A coronal mass ejection poured outward into interplanetary area like an enormous bubble of scorching plasma. presently thereafter the disturbance reached Earth triggering auroral monitors good outdoor the conventional zones. days later, auroras have been witnessed as faraway from the Pole as Wisconsin and Iowa within the usa, nearly right down to forty° northern range. during periods similar to those, dwellers within the Earth’s temperate zones have an opportunity to witness scenes regularly reserved just for folks residing at excessive latitudes. however, the auroral monitors noticeable at decrease latitudes will not be as staggering as these toward the genuine domestic of those nocturnal spectacles. Extraterrestrial Auroras Earth isn't the purely planet within the sun process that stories auroras. The fuel immense worlds, Jupiter and Saturn, either have superior magnetic fields than Earth (over 14 occasions superior in Jupiter’s case) and every possesses a wide radiation belt. now not unusually, auroras were saw close to the magnetic poles of every, either from spacecraft passing close to those worlds and with the Hubble house Telescope closer domestic. comparable auroras have additionally been obvious on Uranus and Neptune, the “ice giants” of the outer sun approach. Fig. three. eleven. Jupiter’s auroral area (Credit: NASA) Fig. three. 12. Auroral task excessive above the northern quarter of Saturn, as imaged via the Cassini spacecraft (Credit: NASA) Polar auroras on those planets, like these of Earth, are powered by means of the sunlight wind, yet in Jupiter’s case, a few attention-grabbing auroras of a unique beginning have additionally been recorded. those are because of electrical currents alongside box strains – so-called “field aligned currents” – generated through a dynamo mechanism springing from the relative movement of the rotating Jupiter and the orbital movement of its nearest huge moon, Io. The presence of those currents used to be first detected as radio emissions again in 1955, after they have been believed by means of a few to be as a result of very vigorous lightning. but when Io contributes to auroral job on Jupiter, Jupiter returns the praise! the big Jovian moons Io, Europa and Ganymede have very skinny atmospheres and the interplay among those tenuous envelopes and the magnetospheric plasma of the large planet triggers auroral task on all 3 of those satellites. The smaller rocky planets Venus and Mars also are identified to exhibit aurora. in relation to Venus, there is not any planetary magnetic box just like that of Earth and its auroras are hence no longer limited to polar latitudes. they seem purely as vibrant and diffuse patches that can even unfold around the whole planetary disc. they're because of electrons from the sun wind impressive the planet’s nocturnal surroundings. Venusian auroral monitors fluctuate significantly in shape and depth and are much less like their terrestrial opposite numbers than the solar-wind precipitated monitors of the enormous worlds. Mars likewise has no worldwide magnetic box of the sort identified in the world, yet info from the Mars international Surveyor exhibits a fancy of crustal magnetic anomalies and, above a space the place the most powerful localized magnetic box is located (a zone referred to as Terra Cimmeria, at southern range fifty two° at the Martian globe) an aurora used to be famous through Mars show’ SPICAM tool on August 14, 2004.