The book reviews the knowledge obtained from ground-based
and space-borne solar flare research thus at the same time
preparing for the forthcoming mission of the satellite Solar
A which will be launched in 1991. Accordinglyone section is
devoted to experiments on Solar A. The rest review both
theory and observational facts to give a physically
realistic picture of flares, including problems of magnetic
flux emergence, high energy particles in flares, heating and
flows in flares, and further problems of solar activity.