Solar Magnetic Fields: From Measurements Towards Understanding (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Editorial: Measuring Solar Magnetic Fields?An Outline of History, Current Status and Challenges.- History of Solar Magnetic Fields Since George Ellery Hale.- Measurements of Photospheric and Chromospheric Magnetic Fields.- Polar Field Reversals and Active Region Decay.- Radiative Diagnostics in the Solar Photosphere and Chromosphere.- Magnetic Diagnostics of the Solar Corona: Synthesizing Optical and Radio Techniques.- The Physics and Diagnostic Potential of Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry.- Minimal Magnetic States of the Sun and the Solar Wind: Implications for the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind.- Coronal Magnetic Field Models.- Solar Magnetoconvection and Small-Scale Dynamo.- The Life Cycle of Active Region Magnetic Fields.- Surface Flux Transport and the Evolution of the Sun’s Polar Fields.- The Global Solar Dynamo.- Prospects of Solar Magnetometry?From Ground and in Space.