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This chapter introduces the concept of space weather and the relevance of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) to it. We then move onto a brief summary of basic questions surrounding the CME: what it is, what it is made of, how it is measured, etc.
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We leave aside for the moment those CME detections made using interplanetary scintillation and those spacecraft not near the Earth, that we discuss in Chap. 2.
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While we will spend little time discussing these phenomena that are related to CMEs in this Brief, a discussion of them appears in Chap. 7 of the author’s introductory text on CMEs [19].
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Howard, T. (2014). Introduction. In: Space Weather and Coronal Mass Ejections. SpringerBriefs in Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7975-8_1
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