The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC, http://www.swsc-journal.org/) welcomes submissions to a topical issue on “Statistical Challenges in Solar Information Processing”, to appear in 2015.

Important dates:
– 22 September 2014: declarations of intent, with preliminary title and list of authors should be sent by email to Thierry Dudok de Wit (ddwit@cnrs-orleans.fr)
– 15 December 2014: final submission, directly to SWSC, via its online submission tool. Note that the publication fee, which is presently 300 EUR, will increase as of Jan. 1st, 2015.

This interdisciplinary issue is an outcome of the 7th Solar Information Processing workshop (http://www.stce.be/sipworkshop2014), which addressed the multiple data analysis challenges of solar and heliospheric missions, and brought together solar and space scientists, statisticians, and data processing experts. The focus will be on how statistical inference and information processing can help addressing issues in solar/heliospheric science, and provide methodologies.

This topical issue will address, among others:
– Optimal combination of in situ and imaging data
– Tracking of small-scale magnetic features
– Prediction of solar eruptions and solar disturbances
– Characterisation of the solar wind turbulence
– Methodological issues such as Bayesian inference.
– Challenges in present and future instrumentation

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of SWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insight, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions. We also welcome articles on statistical methods with a potential to improve data analysis beyond current practices. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely accessible by all. SWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as codes, and data. We are also presently investigating the possibility to collect in a textbook all articles that are submitted and accepted on time.

The guest editors are
– Craig DeForest (deforest@boulder.swri.edu)
– Thierry Dudok de Wit (ddwit@cnrs-orleans.fr)
– Véronique Delouille (v.delouille@oma.be)
– Jack Ireland (Jack.Ireland@nasa.gov)
– Alex Young (c.alex.young@gsfc.nasa.gov)

For questions regarding this topical issue, please contact any of the guest editors. For questions dealing with the submission process, the Editorial Office (swsc@edpsciences.org) should be contacted.