Following the extension for the abstract submission at the National Astronomical Meeting, we are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the following parallel session at this year’s RAS National Astronomy Meeting (5-9 July, Lllandudno).

Solar wind initiation, evolution, and interplanetary consequences

How the solar wind is structured and propagates through the heliosphere is a consequence of a number of changes in the solar activity. These changes include long term variations in the active regions, coronal holes and irradiance, as well as more dynamic events such as flux emergence, flares and coronal mass ejections. Nowadays, a large range of analysis techniques has been developed improving the ability to track the solar wind transients from the solar surface upward using remote sensing observations (such as STEREO and SDO) and in situ measurements (e.g.Wind, ACE and Ulysses). However, we still need to learn more about the underlying mechanism generating and structuring the solar wind, as well as its propagation into the interplanetary space with subsequent interactions with planets or other solar system bodies.

This session aims at reviewing the different efforts to better understand how solar structures are feeding the solar wind and how the solar wind evolves up to 1 AU and beyond. We invite contributions exploiting multiple instruments, especially emphasising the link between in situ and
remote sensing measurements or with quantitative comparisons with numerical models.

The format for this session consists of two 90mn-blocks, with two invited talks (Louise Harra (MSSL) on observations and Matthew Owens (Univ. Reading) on theory/modelling) and contributed oral presentations. We encourage participation from modellers, observers and theoreticians.

Abstract submission deadline: 14th April 2015
Abstract submission link at: http://nam2015.org/

The session organisers (J. de Patoul, S. Murray, C. Foullon and M. Janvier)