Young Stellar Objects (YSO) Evolution -- Outflow, Infall, and Rotation in High-Mass Star Forming Regions -- MERLIN and Puschino Observations of H2O Masers in Outer Galactic SFR S128N -- Observing Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions -- Evidence for Co-Propagation of 4765- and 1720-MHz OH Masers in Star-Forming Regions -- Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions: Theoretical Aspects -- VLBI Wa…
Space Cryocoolers for 4–18 K Applications -- 20 to 80 K Long-life Stirling Cryocoolers -- Space Pulse Tube Cryocooler Developments -- Commercial and Industrial Pulse Tube Cryocoolers -- Thermoacoustically-Driven Pulse Tube Cryocoolers -- Linear Compressor Development and Modeling -- Pulse Tube Analysis and Experimental Measurements -- Regenerator Materials Development and Testing -- Regenerat…
Review Articles -- Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores -- Impulsively Triggered Star Formation -- Starless Cores -- Chemical Processes in Star Forming Regions -- Protostellar Jets: A High Angular Resolution Perspective -- Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation -- The Birth of Massive Stars and Star Clusters -- Precursors of UchII Regions and the Evolution of Massive Outflows -- Observa…
From Astrometry to Celestial Mechanics: Orbit Determination with Very Short Arcs -- On the stability regions of the Trojan asteroids -- Formal Integrals and Nekhoroshev Stability in a Mapping Model for the Trojan Asteroids -- The Observed Trojans and the Global Dynamics Around the Lagrangian Points of the Sun-Jupiter System -- Chaotic Diffusion and Effective Stability of Jupiter Trojans -- Anal…
Early Ideas about Comets -- Statistics of Cometary Orbits and Magnitudes -- The Understanding of Their Physical Nature -- Dynamics of LP Comets Entering the Inner Planetary Region -- The Oort Cloud -- The Flux of New Comets: Quiescent and Excited Stages -- The Jupiter Family -- The Trans-Neptunian Belt -- Physical End States of Comets -- Leftovers of the Solar System Formation -- Comets and Lif…
Cosmic Structures -- Gas Dynamics -- Radiation and Spectra -- Thermal Processes -- Magnetic Fields -- Disks -- Star Formation -- Stellar Evolution -- Degenerate Stars -- High-Energy Radiation -- Bipolar Flows -- Image Distortions -- Special Sources -- Astrobiology -- Alternatives -- Answers to Problems.For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe - from the solar system throu…
Orbit and Earth Gravity Field -- Earth Magnetic Field -- Neutral Atmosphere and Ionosphere.In the summer of 2000 the German geo-research satellite CHAMP was launched into orbit. Its innovative payload arrangement and the low initial orbit allow CHAMP to simultaneously collect and almost continuously analyse precise data relating to gravity and magnetic fields at low altitude. In addition, CHAMP…
Introduction -- Air Pollution in Europe: Tropospheric Ozone; Air Pollution Impacts; Activities on Air Pollution Control -- Emissions, Sources and Abatement Costs: Emission Analysis; Country Analysis; Scenario Development; Assessing Abatement Costs; Emission Abatement Options -- Optimizing Ozone Abatement Strategies: Model Design and Implementation; Model Evaluation -- Modelling Results for Trop…
Historical perspective -- South Asian monsoon -- East Asian monsoon -- Pan-America -- Australian-Indonesian monsoon -- The oceans -- Air-sea interaction -- Mass, momentum, and geodynamics -- El Niño Southern Oscillation connection -- Theory -- Modeling -- Predictability and forecasting.As the first comprehensive and authoritative review of intra-seasonal variability (ISV), this multi-author wo…
This book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology. Volume I gathers a fist set of extensive lectures that cover a broad range of topics, from the formation of solar system to the quest for the most primitive life forms that emerged on the early Earth.