Solar Wind Acceleration

Yuri V. Pisanko is Head of Department at Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics, Russia, and holds a PhD in Geophysics from the same institution. He also holds a DSc in Atmospheric Sciences from the High Attestation Committee of the Russian Federation. He is a Professor at the Chair of the Ocean's Thermo-hydromechanics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.Igor S. Veselovsky is Principal Scientist at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, and holds a PhD from the same institution. He also holds a DSc in Plasma Physics and Chemistry from the High Attestation Committee of the Soviet Union. He was Co-Chair of the "Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere" section of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy in 1991-1999.Oleg I. Yakovlev is Principal Scientist at the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and holds a PhD in Physics from Tomsk State University, Russia. He also holds a DSc in Technical Sciences from the High Attestation Committee of the Soviet Union, and was twice awarded the USSR State Prize for the study of radio-wave propagation in deep space. He has also received the title of Honorary Scientist and Engineer of the Russian Federation.