Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report

by Committee on the Societal and Economic I, National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, et al.

The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309127696
• ISBN13: 9780309127691
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.9"