Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere: Volume Resulting from an ISSI Workshop 17-20 September 1996 and 10-14 March 1997, Bern, Switzerland

In every scientific discipline there are milestones - periods of significant accom­ plishment when it is appropriate to pause and summarize the state of the field. Such is the case for the study of the behavior of cosmic rays in the heliosphere. We are just passing through solar minimum conditions, when the heliosphere has a well-ordered and relatively simple configuration. We have been fortunate to have an array of spacecraft - unprecedented in the history of space exploration and unlikely...