Sydney Chapman on the Layering of the Atmosphere: Conceptual Unity and the Modelling of the Ionosphere.
Sydney Chapman is unanimously considered to have played a founding role in modern geomagnetism and to have opened up new lines of research in geophysics generally. Nevertheless, Chapman's conviction regarding the synthesis of the explanatory mechanisms of the atmosphere has gone practically unnotice...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 333 - 345 |
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Jul2009
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