Stephen R. Walton, editor
December 17, 1999
>From Vic Pizzo <vpizzo@vulcan.sec.noaa.gov>
>7 Dec 1999
SHINE 2000 SUMMER WORKSHOP
JUNE 14 - 17, 2000
Caesar's Palace (Lake Tahoe)
Stateline, Nevada
All members of the solar/interplanetary and space weather science and applications communities are invited to attend the SHINE 2000 Workshop, to be held during the week immediately preceding the AAS-SPD meeting at Lake Tahoe this summer.
This year's program will focus on two general areas of research, one solar and one interplanetary. Corresponding working groups will subdivide into smaller groups to address specific issues. A preliminary outline of these issues is as follows:
| Working Group I: | Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and Prominence Eruptions |
| [co-leaders: J. Klimchuk and J. Gurman] |
Specifically, the workshop will address the questions: Are all CMEs the manifestation of a single specific physical process, or are there a number of different processes that can lead to a CME? What is the relationship between CMEs and prominence formation and eruption? Discussions will include:
| Working Group II: | Interplanetary Connections |
| [co-leaders: P. Riley and T. Zurbuchen] |
The focus will be on the link between detectable solar phenomena and interplanetary CME manifestations and whether they depend upon solar cycle phase. Specifically, Is this solar cycle "misbehaving?" Why have we not seen in recent months more activity at Earth, given the apparent CME inputs at the Sun? Potential contributory factors include:
Further announcements with details of the scientific program, registration, and logistics for the workshop will be broadcast shortly. Please consult the SHINE website http://www.sec.noaa.gov/shine for further information.
>From Richard Mewaldt <rmewaldt@srl.caltech.edu>
>7 Dec 1999
Call for Papers for COSPAR-2000 Symposium D2.1/E3.2: "Solar Composition: New Perspectives from in situ and Remote Sensing Studies"
This notice is to invite participation in a symposium that will discuss in situ and remote sensing studies of the solar composition. It will take place at the upcoming 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly to held in Warsaw, Poland July 16-23, 2000. There will be an oral program of invited and contributed papers, as well as a poster session. See the website listed below for information on abstract submission and a complete program of other symposia at this meeting.
| Abstract deadline: | 10 January 2000 |
| Information: | http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html |
Summary of Symposium D2.1/E3.2: This symposium will focus on studies of solar composition that are being carried out with a new generation of instrumentation now in space, including in situ studies of elemental, isotopic, and ionic charge state composition of solar wind, CMEs, and solar particles, and remote sensing studies of the composition of the solar atmosphere. Among the new observations to be covered are in situ data from ACE, Wind, SOHO, SAMPEX, Ulysses and Geotail, complimented by remote-sensing observations from SOHO, Yohkoh, TRACE and ground-based studies. We also invite theoretical studies of the fractionation, acceleration, and transport processes that affect the observed elemental, isotopic, and ionic charge-state composition.
Organizing Committee: R. A. Mewaldt (MSO; US), B. Klecker (DSO; Germany), G. M. Simnett (Editor, England), U. Feldman (US); H. Kunow (Germany), E. Moebius (US), D. V. Reames (US), B. Somov (Russia), and R. von Steiger (Switzerland).
>From tuija.pulkkinen@fmi.fi
>8 Dec 1999
First Announcement and call for papers for the 1st S-RAMP symposium on "Comparison of Observations and Simulations of Global Magnetospheric Structure" October 2-6, 2000, Sapporo, Japan
Program committee:
Co-Convenors:
T. Pulkkinen (Finland)
G. Rostoker (Japan)
Members:
J. Birn, (USA)
T. Nagai (Japan)
R. Nakamura (Germany)
N. Maynard ( USA)
G. Parks ( USA)
J. Raeder ( USA )
J.-A. Sauvaud ( France)
The five-year period 1998-2002 of the S-RAMP (STEP - Results, Applications, and Modeling Phase) particularly calls for model and data comparisons using the set of observations that are continuously being collected from the international fleet of ISTP spacecraft and a wealth of ground-based instrumentation.
The recent improvements in both modeling techniques and computer capacity now allow for quantitative comparisons among multipoint observations and model results. At this stage it is useful to examine both situations where the data and models agree and those where agreement is not good in order to understand the physical situations and processes during which agreement is and is not achieved. This allows for definite identification of processes from observations as well as further improvement of the models.
Special areas of interest include but are not limited to energy transfer from the solar wind to the magnetosphere, magnetospheric configuration and dynamics during substorms, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling both in the dayside and in the nightside, and ionospheric convection and its relation to the IMF.
We solicit papers that use observations and one or more models to quantitatively explore the model - data agreement. The models and data sets may be local or global, and can be employed to focus on any aspect of the solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere coupling. The observations could be based on particular events as well as on characteristics drawn from a survey of events.
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is May 15, 2000. Some limited financial support may be available for attendees.
For further information, please see the First Circular which has been mailed out recently, or see the web site
http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/s-ramp/
or contact the Co-Convenors at:
| Tuija I. Pulkkinen | Gordon Rostoker |
| Finnish Meteorological Inst. | Solar-Terrestrial Environment Lab. |
| Geophysical Research | Nagoya University |
| P.O.Box 503 | Honohara 3-13 |
| FIN-00101 Helsinki | Toyokawa 442-8507 |
| Finland | Japan |
| tel: 358-9-1929 4654 | tel: 81-533-89-5182 |
| fax: 358-9-1929 4603 | fax: 81-533-89-5090 |
| e-mail: tuija.pulkkinen@fmi.fi | e-mail: rostoker@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp |
>From Norma Crosby <crosby@isu.isunet.edu>
>9 Dec 1999
Symposium ST19 of next year's EGS meeting (Nice, France, 25-29 April 2000) will be dedicated to discussion of the scientific issues associated with Space Weather. This symposium will be divided into several subsections that address in turn:
Oral and poster papers on observations, data analysis and modelling in all these areas are very welcome.
Names and addresses of Conveners:
Dr Mike Hapgood, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK.
Email: M.Hapgood@rl.ac.uk
Dr Norma Crosby, International Space University, Strasbourg, France.
Email: crosby@isu.isunet.edu
Dr Volker Bothmer, Universität Kiel, Germany.
Email: bothmer@kernphysik.uni-kiel.de
Dr Jan Lastovicka, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
Email: jla@ufa.cas.cz
For more information about this symposium and the meeting in general, please see the meeting web pages at http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egsga/nice00/nice00.htm
The deadline for Receipt of Abstracts is 15 December 1999. Abstracts should be submitted to the EGS Office using the various formats described on the web pages above.
>From Doug Biesecker <doug@sungrazer.nascom.nasa.gov>
>10 Dec 1999
| Date: | 16-23 July 2000 |
Location: |
Warsaw, Poland |
Abstracts due: |
10 January 2000 |
Info: |
http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html |
Summary of Symposium E2.2/D2.2
Structure, Energetics and Dynamics of the Corona and Heliosphere during the Rising Phase of the 23rd Solar Cycle
As we progress towards the maximum of the current solar cycle, we can take advantage of the wealth of new information gathered from an array of observatories to advance our knowledge of the Sun. This session will look at all aspects of the solar atmosphere, from low in the corona out to many AU. Observation, theory, and modelling contributions on such diverse topics as coronal holes, polar plumes, streamer structures, CME's, co-rotating interaction regions and energetic particles are welcomed as well as contributions on other topics. There will be a particular emphasis on how the corona and heliosphere change throughout the solar cycle, and results from any solar cycle are suitable for this session.
Confirmed invited speakers: A. Breen, A. Fludra, R. Howard, R. Marsden, V. Obridko.
Session organizers and committee: D.A. Biesecker, R. Schwenn, I. Veselovsky, D.J. Michels.
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