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The Solar Tachocline
by David W. (edt) Hughes
Available from Powells Used Books
$153.75
on 10-15-2008
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ISBN Number: 9780521861014
Written by: Hughes, David W. (edt)
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Editor: Weiss, N. O.
Editor: Hughes, D. W.
Editor: Rosner, R.
Subject: Astronomy, Solar System
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Helioseismology
Copyright: 2007
Date of Publication: March 2007
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 432
Book Size: 9.77x7.11x.90 in. 2.01 lbs.
Helioseismology has enabled us to probe the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun, including how its rotation varies in the solar interior. The unexpected discovery of an abrupt transition - the tachocline - between the differentially rotating convection zone and the uniformly rotating radiative interior has generated considerable interest and raised many fundamental issues. This volume contains invited reviews from distinguished speakers at the first meeting devoted to the tachocline, held at the Isaac Newton Institute. It provides the only comprehensive account of the current understanding of the properties and dynamics of the tachocline, including both observational results and major theoretical issues, involving both hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic behaviour. The Solar Tachocline is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in astrophysics, heliospheric physics and geophysics, and the dynamics of fluids and plasmas.
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