Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts
National Academies Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0309138116 | 32 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
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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