The 11th European Space Weather Week (Liège, Belgium, 17-21 November 2014) will have a session on “Solar activity as a driver for space weather and space weather modelling”

Space weather forecasting is frequently driven by the end observational products of solar activity (flare emission, CMEs and energetic particles). This is reflected in other sessions at this meeting, where inputs are used to develop forecasting tools, in order to look at the influence of the Sun on the interplanetary medium and Earth. Few sessions have been dedicated to investigating the physics underpinning solar activity, even though such work is important for understanding why, where and when flares and CMEs might occur. Such understanding is key to forming rigorous empirical and physics-based space weather forecasting tools.

There are a number of ways that the Sun influences changes in space weather in the short term (hours-days). These include changes in the structure of the corona (coronal holes, streamers, psuedostreamers, etc.), variations in irradiance, more dynamic events such as flares and eruptions, the emergence of active regions, etc. In this session we aim to present a broad spectrum of research on topics that have an impact on space weather conditions, and how they feed into models used in space weather prediction. We encourage the community to present new observations and models that might help to further our understanding of the causes and drivers of solar activity, and how these observations may lead toward the next generation of forecasting tools.

Deadline for abstract submission: June 1, 2014
For more information: http://www.stce.be/esww11