Dear Colleagues.

We would like to ask you to submit a contributed abstract of your work applicable to our session “Radio Heliophysics for Space Weather Applications” at the upcoming 2016 4th Asia Oceania Space Weather Alliance (AOSWA) Workshop, 24-27 October 2016, in Jeju, Republic of Korea (South Korea). Our session description can be found below.

Please submit your abstract here: http://aoswa4.spaceweather.org/le_register.php?me_code=2020 ASAP; please note that the abstract-submission deadline has been informally extended to 15th August 2016 (Korean time).

When the abstracts are in – the organisers will group the non-invited submissions with the invited submissoins to form the sessions and put a coherent programme together – this will then be reflected online; currently, none of the sessions are advertised online. The AOSWA meeting in Japan in March 2015 (http://www2.nict.go.jp/aeri/swe/aoswa/workshop_3/program/index.html) is a good example of how the sessions may turn out in terms of the programmatic layout. This year, AOSWA are strongly encouraging international engagement at the workshop and hence the scope of our session.

The main AOSWA website can be found here: http://aoswa4.spaceweather.org/ where further information will appear in due course.

Many thanks and we look forward to seeing you on Jeju in October,

Mario (and Bernie).

Radio Heliophysics for Space Weather Applications – a special session at the 4th AOSWA in South Korea, 24-27 October 2016.

Observations of radio for heliophysics in general have been used for many years – for well over a half century. Radio arrays/telescopes/spacecraft instrumentation and analyses tools have been developed and used in more-recent times for space-weather applications as well as space weather science over the last two decades or more. Such radio techniques include the monitoring of the Sun, the tracking of solar radio bursts (due to interplanetary shock propagation), interplanetary scintillation (IPS) for monitoring the velocity and density of outflow across the inner heliosphere, and most recently the adoption/trialling of Faraday rotation (FR) for space-weather purposes, to name but a few. This session aims in highlighting all manner of ground-based and space-based radio observations and modelling in heliophysics as applied to space weather, as well as those techniques under development for space-weather purposes with the advent of new/differing techniques now able to be undertaken with advanced/novel radio instrumentation which one day may be able to be used in space-weather applications and not just for space-weather and radio heliophysics advancements.

Convenors:
Dr. Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK)
Dr. Bernard V. Jackson (CASS-UCSD, USA)

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Dear All.

We ask for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH (Solar and Heliospheric Physics) and SM (Magnetospheric Physics) space-weather science, forecasting, operations, and missing information session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/). The abstract-submission deadline is fast coming upon us on 03 August 2016 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 04 August 2016 at 03:59UT (see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/early-abstract-submission/ for details).

The full session description is below including related sessions which we are attempting to coordinate with for consecutive session running at the meeting. To submit your abstract, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member (before 24 July 2016).

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=12359.

Please note that this session is being organized as one of the new alternate-format sessions and the details will be given in the next announcement; please see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/alternate-session-formats/ for further AGU details on the alternate format sessions. Confirmed panellist members include senior representation from both NOAA-SWPC and NASA Heliophysics, Mark Gibbs (Met Office, UK), Kanya Kusano (Nagoya University, Japan/PSTEP), and Clezio Marcos De Nardin (National Institute for Space Research, Brasil/ISES), and we are in the preparations of confirming one panellist from another international organisation.

Best wishes,

Mario (on behalf of all the SH019 Conveners).

Session ID#: 12359

Session Description:
Society is ever-more reliant on reliable energy supplies and the technologies which they enable/run. These are susceptible to both extreme and everyday space weather (SW); the latter in the current solar cycle has proven to be more-surprisingly influenced by solar-wind structures and not just CME events. Such susceptibilities include power grids, aviation/maritime, communications, GNSS positioning/timing, etc…

Following the highly-successful session at Fall-AGU-2015, this session is intended to follow-up and expand/continue the assessment of the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where additional-services/improvements are necessary to advance our SW forecast/prediction capabilities.

The session solicits contributions of: the provision of suitable observations/measurements; the developments of scientific models into operational use; and ongoing developments of SW forecasting. Contributions emphasizing science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES/DSCOVR/NOAA-2020/Carrington) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also very-much welcomed.

Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
Conveners: Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico

Co-Organized with:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH), and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics (SM)

Cross-Listed:
NH – Natural Hazards
P – Planetary Sciences
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
SM – SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]

Related National Space Weather Action Plan (NSWAP)-focused sessions include:
SM004: Assessing the National Space Weather Action Plan: Implications for Space Weather Research
PA012: Defining Extreme Space Weather Events
PA037: The National Space Weather Action Plan: Five Benchmarks for Extreme Space Weather Events

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Call for abstracts

AGU Fall Meeting,
Session SH017:
Snow Flakes in the Oven – Cool Prominences and Coronal Rain in the Hot Solar Corona

Session ID#: 13099

Session Description:

The solar corona is hot and tenuous. Yet, it hosts a variety of mysteriously cool and dense plasma structures, primarily in two distinct forms – prominences and coronal rain. Their importance has been increasingly recognized, especially with the advent of the IRIS mission since 2013. They can involve a radiative cooling instability that causes hot coronal mass to condense and fall back to the chromosphere, closing the loop of the corona-chromosphere mass cycle and providing implications for the fundamental coronal heating problem. Some prominences form the cores of CMEs that are major drivers of space-weather disturbances. We invite contributions on such topics as observational and modeling investigations of the formation and dynamics of prominences and coronal rain, their magnetic and plasma environments, their relevant physical processes such as ion-neutral coupling and magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas, their diagnostic applications, and their space-weather consequences and predictive potential.

Primary Convener: Wei Liu, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Conveners: Patrick Antolin, University of St Andrews, UK and Thomas E Berger, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to submit abstracts to the 2016 Fall AGU session
“Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for
Discovery” (description below). Abstracts may be submitted here

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13558

The abstract submission deadline is soon – 3 August 2016 11.59pm EDT.

Session Description:
The Sun influences the Earth through a complex set of interactions
across interplanetary space. The behavior of this system is measured
by many different instruments that produce many varied data. In the
near future, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope will produce data at
rates exceeding the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and Solar Probe Plus
and Solar Orbiter will bring entirely new perspectives on the
Sun-Earth system. These disparate data are essentially different views
of the same Sun-Earth system. Maximizing the scientific output from
these variegated data is the key to progress, and the subject of this
session. We solicit contributions covering the following topics: –
automated solar feature recognition and tracking – cloud computing in
support of solar big data analysis – data/knowledge visualization and
discovery – efficient spatio-temporal data querying – machine learning
from solar data – spatio-temporal pattern mining – storage of, and
access to big data repositories.

Conveners: Jack Ireland (NASA GSFC/ADNET Systems, Inc) and Rafal Angryk (Georgia State University, US)

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IAUS 327: Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere
Oct. 9-14, 2016 Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Abstract Deadline: July 20

International Astronomical Union Symposium 327 (IAUS327) on “Fine Scale and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere”, which will be held at Universidad de Cartagena in Colombia, October 9-14, 2016.

To submit your abstract, register, or review the science program details, please visit our website: http://iaus327.unal.edu.co

Abstracts are solicited for oral/poster contributions describing solar research for the following sessions:

Session 2: Advances in high-resolution solar observations – I
Session 3: Advances in high-resolution solar observations – II
Session 4: Energy, mass and magnetic flux transport between the convection zone and the outer solar atmosphere – I
Session 5: Energy, mass and magnetic flux transport between the convection zone and the outer solar atmosphere – II
Session 6: Multi-scale magnetic reconnection: observations and theories
Session 7: Wave phenomena and atmospheric dynamics
Session 8: Fine structure and dynamics of active regions and sunspots – I
Session 9: Fine structure and dynamics of active regions and sunspots – II
Session 10: Magnetic structure and dynamics of coronal holes and solar wind
Session 11: Energy release and explosive events at the finest spatial and temporal scales
Session 12: Role of small-scale structures in the chromosphere-corona heating
Session 13: Fine-structure of solar flares
Session 14: Solar-stellar connections
Session 15: Future directions
Session 16: High energies – fine structure (Radio, X and gamma rays)

The scientific goal of this symposium is to discuss recent results on the processes shaping the structure of the solar atmosphere and driving plasma eruptions and explosive events.

Confirmed Speakers:
S. Solanki, A. Asensio, M. Carlsson, R. Centeno, J. Martínez-Sykora, J. Qiu, K. Shibata, T. Pereira, A. Winebarger, F. Rubio da Costa, C. Xia, T. Van Doorsselaere, S. Bale, L. Glesener

Chair of Scientific Organising Committee: 
Santiago Vargas Domínguez (OAN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Alexander Kosovichev (NJIT, USA), Juan Carlos Martínez Oliver’s (SSL, UC Berkeley, USA)., Patrick Antolin (NAOJ, Japan & University of St Andrews UK), Louise Harra (MSSL, UK), Cristina Mandrini (CONICET, Argentina).

International Scientific Organising Committee
Laura Balmaceda (Argentina), Luis Ramon Bellot Rubio (Spain) , Michele Bianda (Switzerland), Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas (USA), Mark Cheung (USA) Ineke De Moortel (UK), Sirajul Hasan (India), Ryoko Ishikawa (Japan), Lucia Kleint (Switzerland), Valentin Martínez Pillet (USA) Rob Rutten (Netherlands), Natalia Schukina (Ukraine), Brigitte Schmieder (France), Oskar Steiner (Germany), Mike Wheatland (Australia), Jingxiu Wang (China).

For questions, contact: Santiago Vargas Domínguez svargasd@unal.edu.co

We are looking forward to seeing you in Cartagena de Indias !

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Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce that the 15th European Solar Physics Meeting will be held in Budapest (Hungary), during the week of 04-08 September, 2017. Some preliminary information about the meeting can be found at http://astro.elte.hu/ESPM-15/

Further announcements will be made in due course.

Best wishes

Istvan Ballai & Emese Forgacs-Dajka
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SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity
Oct. 17-21, 2016 * Burlington, VT

Living With a Star’s Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its 2016 Science Workshop “SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity.” We have an excellent program and we hope you will participate as a presenter. Submit your abstract to one of eight session by Friday, July 15. Multiple abstracts are allowed, but only one oral presentation per person. With a great science program and Vermont’s beautiful fall foliage in mid-October, we hope you make plans to join us. Submit your abstract today!

SDO 2016 Important Dates:
• Abstracts Due: ** Friday, July 15 **
• Early Registration & Hotel Reservation: September 16

Sincerely,
The Scientific Organizing Committee for SDO 2016:
W. Dean Pesnell (chair), Charles Baldner, Mark Cheung, Frank Eparvier, Meng Jin, Aimee Norton, and Barbara Thompson

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UK Solar Orbiter Working Group

We are holding a meeting on the 23 September at the RAS from
10:00-16:00 in order
to discuss how we will observe with the different instrument on Solar
Orbiter to answer the science goals. This concept is derived from the
Uk Solar Missions forum in January this year, and we aim that this
will be a regular meeting to prepare the community for analysing Solar
Orbiter data and ensuring we obtain input on how best to optimise
observing with the instruments.

Yannis Zouganelis (Solar Orbiter Deputy Project Scientist) has kindly
offered to attend and will provide us with an overview on How Solar
Orbiter will observe.

A lot of work has already been carried out already which will give you
a flavour of what can be achieved and this is found on:

https://issues.cosmos.esa.int/solarorbiterwiki/display/SOSP/Solar+Orbiter+detailed+science+objectives

We aim for the meeting to have as much discussion as possible.

Everyone is welcome.

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Dear Colleagues

I would like to draw your attention to the SH027 session: ‘Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities in Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures’ in the framework of AGU Fall Meeting.
The Annual AGU meeting will take place in San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016. Further details regarding abstract submission, registration, accommodation and relevant deadlines can be found on the meeting website:
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/

Important! Early Abstract Submission Deadline is 27 July 2016.

SH027: ‘Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities in Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures’

Conveners:
Shreekrishna Tripathi, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Leon Ofman, CUA/NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Irina Kitiashvili, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Viktor Fedun, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Session Description

Space and ground-based observations have detected a variety of low-frequency plasma waves, oscillations, and instabilities (e.g., Alfven waves, Fast/Slow/EUV waves, global-kink-mode, and sausage-mode) in solar and heliospheric magnetoplasma structures that exist across a wide range of spatio-temporal scales (e.g., small flux- ropes in the surface-granulation-pattern, spicules, prominences, coronal loops). Laboratory plasma experiments have made important contributions in developing models that can accurately predict propagation, damping, and growth-rate of plasma waves and instabilities. Development of similar models for solar plasma structures can help us fully utilize diagnostic capabilities of these waves and understand their role in energy transport on the Sun. This session provides a platform to bring together experts in remote observational analysis, numerical/analytical modeling, and experimental/theoretical plasma physics. We especially welcome contributions based on recent (SDO, Hinode, IRIS, WIND, ACE, Helios, Cluster, and MMS) and planning for next generation observational facilities (DKIST, EST, COSMO, Solar-Orbiter, and Solar-Probe plus).

With my Best Regards
Viktor Fedun

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We are pleased to announce that the 2017 IAU Symposium 335 “Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts”, will be held at the University of Exeter, Devon, UK, from the 17th to the 21st of July 2017. We look forward to welcoming you. A first announcement with more details will follow in September 2016.

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