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Fall AGU – SH025: Space-Weather Research and Forecasting: Building Tomorrow’s Space-Weather Architectures – FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear All.

This is our final call for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH and SM (and SI, SA, and NH cross-listed) SWIRLS Extreme Events & Hazards session (SH025) “Space-Weather Research and Forecasting: Building Tomorrow’s Space-Weather Architectures” at the upcoming Fall AGU in Washington DC, 10-14 December 2018 (https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/). The FINAL abstract-submission deadline is 01 August 2018 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 02 August 2018 at 03:59UT (see: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/) for full details on abstract submissions.

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/49222.

The full session details are below. To submit, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member. First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions. You can also submit to Public Affairs sessions separately without counting towards this quota. You can also be presenting author on multiple abstracts.

Please note that this session is being organized as one of the alternate-format sessions; please see: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/session-proposals/alternate-session-formats/ for further AGU details on the alternate format sessions – this session will include a panel in addition to talks and posters.

This is further a follow-on from previous years which have included very-active poster sessions, good interactions at talks, and excellent audience participation at the panel session.

Best wishes, and thanks,

Mario (on behalf of all the SH025 Conveners).

Session ID#: 49222

Session Description:
We still find that society is ever-more reliant on technologies/energy supplies susceptible to interruption/damage from space weather (SW) (communications/transport, GNSS-positioning/timing, power, etc.). As a result, several new infrastructures, missions, and models are being developed to improve forecasting capabilities, our understanding of the impacts, and to engineer in better mitigation solutions.

This is fourth incarnation of the session (since 2015) where the focus now specifically turns to new ideas about future space-/ground-based SW architectures. Multiple ongoing international studies are scoping the options for sustained/improved SW observations. New observing locations (e.g. L5) as well as advanced concepts based on small satellites and splitting larger missions into smaller sub-elements (fractionation) are being considered in these studies.

We solicit contributions of: ideas/discussions regarding sustainable SW observations/architectures; how small satellites can be used to supplement SW architectures; whether GOES-SWFO-L5 provides the needed observations/sustainability; and what new technologies challenge the past ways of undertaking SW research/operations.

Primary Convener: Mario Mark Bisi, UKRI STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom.
Co-Conveners: Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Mark Gibbs, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and Brent Gordon, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States.

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

Cross-Listed:
SI – Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
SA – SPA-Aeronomy
NH – Natural Hazards

SWIRL Themes:
Extreme Events & Hazards

Index Numbers:
4305 – Natural Hazards: Space Weather
7594 – Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy: Instruments and techniques
7924 – Space Weather: Forecasting
7999 – Space Weather: General or miscellaneous

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Storms and Substorms RAS meeting (08 February 2019)

We would like to draw your attention to an upcoming RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: “The Global Response of the Terrestrial Magnetosphere During Storms and Substorms” on 08 February 2019 at the RAS, Burlington House. We are also pleased to announce that this meeting will include keynote talks from Mona Kessel (NASA/GSFC) and Elena Kronberg (Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research).

We invite you to submit an abstract via https://goo.gl/forms/O57VRvR8Z45d7UAe2. The deadline for abstract submission is 07 December 2018.

For further details please see http://ras.ac.uk/index.php/events-and-meetings/ras-meetings/global-response-terrestrial-magnetosphere-during-storms-and

Meeting description:
The magnetosphere is a highly variable environment, and the occurrence of storms and substorms result in the dramatic reconfiguration and redistribution of energy within the system. Understanding the conditions under which these events take place, the response of the magnetosphere, and the causes of the high variability observed is an area of active research.

This meeting aims to further our understanding of how internal and external factors combine to shape the global structure of the magnetosphere and the plasma stored therein during active times. We aim to integrate our collective knowledge of global changes in the magnetic field structure and of plasma behaviour across a wide range of energies, from cold plasmaspheric plasma through to the high energy populations in the plasma sheet, ring current, and outer radiation belt. In addition to bringing together observations from throughout the magnetosphere and ionosphere (e.g., Van Allen, Cluster, and the SuperDARN network), new modelling and simulation results will also provide insight into the response of the terrestrial magnetosphere to a wide range of geomagnetic activity.

Many thanks,

Jasmine Sandhu (MSSL, UCL)
Hayley Allison (BAS/University of Cambridge)
Maria-Theresia Walach (Lancaster University)
Clare Watt (University of Reading)

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Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophsyics (PIPA2019)

***PIPA2019 Preliminary Announcement***

Dear Colleagues

The forthcoming 3rd meeting on “Partially Ionized Plasmas in Astrophysics” (PIPA2019) will be organised in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in the period 03-07 June 2019.

The meeting aims to broaden and strengthen the collaboration of scientists working in partially ionised plasmas in space (e.g. solar chromosphere, interstellar medium, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc.) and to develop common scientific interests that could enhance cross-collaborations between scientists working in this field.

The meeting will focus on (but not limited to) the following topics:

– Partially ionised plasmas in the solar atmosphere
– Electrodynamics of planetary magnetospheres
– Astrophysical partially ionised plasmas

More information about the conference themes, the program and the venue will be available soon on the conference website.

Looking forward to see you soon in Palma de Mallorca
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Workshop FReSWeD 2019: Towards Future Research on Space Weather Drivers

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Workshop FReSWeD 2019
Towards Future Research on Space Weather Drivers
July 2-7, 2019
San Juan, Argentina

Understanding and being able to forecast space weather is an increasingly important aspect of our modern technology-reliant society. This Workshop will promote the exchange of information in the area of space weather, from the point of view of the phenomena that drive it from its origin in the solar atmosphere, through its evolution in the interplanetary medium, to its arrival in geospace. Advanced understanding on space weather drivers is essential to improve predictability of the solar-terrestrial coupling.

Among the specific subjects that will be covered are:

-Solar sources, generation and development of dynamic events that determine space weather conditions.
-Coupling of solar atmospheric layers: data-driven models of the large scale corona and solar wind.
-Interplanetary counterparts of solar activity and its space weather consequences.
-Computational and observational tools for space weather forecasting.
-Space- and ground-based instrumentation with space weather applications.

The Workshop will include invited and contributed talks, posters, as well as joint discussions. The Workshop will be accompanied by a school with a mix of introductory tutorials, demos and hands-on labs. These activities are geared towards students and young researchers who seek to gain a broad overview of space weather domains, concepts and tools/resources.

This space weather Workshop and its associated school are being organized on the occasion of the total solar eclipse of 2019, whose totality path will cross five provinces of Argentina extending for more than 1200 km.

Further information can be found at: http://www.iafe.uba.ar/freswed2019

If you are interested in attending and would like to be on a pre-registration email list, please fill in the pre-registration form on our website above.

Hebe Cremades, Cristina Mandrini, and Carlos Francile,
On behalf of FReSWeD SOC and LOC

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Fall AGU Session SM017: Quantifying Uncertainty in Space Weather Modeling and Forecasting

Dear Colleagues,

Abstract submission is open for the Fall AGU meeting. We’d like to bring to your attention a session cutting across the disciplines in Space Physics and Aeronomy, Session SM017 ‘Quantifying Uncertainty in Space Weather Modeling and Forecasting’. If this sounds relevant to you, please consider submitting an abstract to this session. The session description is below.

The AGU meeting will be held December 10-14 2018 in Washington DC. Further details about the meeting can be found at fallmeeting.agu.org. Abstract submissions are due before 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, August 1st.

Regards,

Steve Morley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Gang Lu (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Sophie Murray (Trinity College Dublin)

SM017: Quantifying Uncertainty in Space Weather Modeling and Forecasting

Dynamic solar outputs including flares, high-speed solar wind, and coronal mass ejections, drive responses in geospace that can have deleterious effects on technological systems. Further, upward propagation of atmospheric waves and tides produces natural variability in Earth’s ionosphere and thermosphere. Many types of models are used to forecast, nowcast, or hindcast, space weather relevant quantities, but the uncertainty of these predictions is often not quantified or reported. Simulations of varying complexity are key to our understanding of the physics that drives space weather, and any simulation or forecast has uncertainty which can arise from a number of sources. These sources include uncertainties in the initial condition, uncertainties in input data, and approximations made in the construction of the model. The goal of this session is to showcase new research in ensemble modeling, probabilistic forecasting, model sensitivity studies, and other approaches to improve uncertainty quantification in space weather modeling and forecasting.… continue to the full article

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SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH) Session Announcement: SH012: New Approaches to Studying the Middle Solar Corona

We would like to announcement our session at tis years AGU: SH012: New Approaches to Studying the Middle Solar Corona

In this session we assess the latest advances in instrumentation for observing from the solar surface to the so-called middle corona — the region of the corona out to heights of about 5 solar radii — and problems in coronal physics that could be addressed using observations of this region. In particular, we focus on current and future instrumentation that could address the question of the properties of extended EUV observations or their relationship with white light observations and structures extending into the heliosphere. We seek talks discussing what can be learnt from these observations and how they influence our understanding of structures transiting this region, including streamers, pseudo-streamers and more dynamic structures such as eruptions and flows, whose characteristics (expansion, speed, etc.) are largely dictated by this region. We also encourage presentations of new techniques to access the data, including image processing techniques and new data analysis tools.

conveners:

Daniel B Seaton | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Matthew West | Royal Observatory Belgium
James Paul Mason | University of Colorado at Boulder
Neal E Hurlburt | Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory

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