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

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=12359