Table of Contents

The Sun in the Universe.- Solar Interior.- Dynamo Processes.- Large-Scale Solar Eruptions.- Solar Energetic Particles: Acceleration and Observations.- The Solar Wind and Its Interaction with the Interstellar Medium.- Reconnection Process in the Sun and Heliosphere.- MHD Fluctuations in the Heliosphere.- Radio Emission Processes: Part I.- Elemental and Charge State Composition in the Heliosphere.- Planetary Atmospheres.- Planetary Ionospheres.- Planetary Magnetospheres.- The Sun and Space Weather.- Sun: Climate Coupling on Sub-Decadal to Multi-Millennial Time Scales.- The Planetary X-ray Emission.