ISWI Newsletter - Vol.7 No.03
01 February 2015

Dear ISWI Participant:

2015 STSC Meetings of United Nations COPUOS start the day after tomorrow. Various "side meetings" are scheduled. Two are mentioned in this issue: One is the USA-organized meeting of Feb. 3 and the other is the Canada-organized meeting of Feb. 4. See you at both.

George Maeda
Editor of ISWI Newsletter

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] 2015 SARA Western Regional Conference, Palo Alto, California, USA, 20–22 March 2015. (read it)

[2] 26th General Assembly of IUGG, June 22-July 2, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, Session A15 supported by ROSMIC (read it)

[3] Space Weather Services to Build Global Resilience: Workshop on Space Weather Services supporting the UN COPUOS, UN STSC. Conducted by USA. . 3 Feb. 2015 in Vienna (read it)

[4] VarSITI Newsletter, Vol.4, January 2015. Note: This issue includes a report on the 12th International Conference on Substorms (ICS-12) (read it)

[5] Invitation for talks: AOGS session ST 30 (Singapore, August 2-7, 2015): ST 30: The Strange State of the Heliosphere during the Weak Solar Cycles 24 and its Implications (read it)

[6] UN COPUOS Expert Group on Space Weather - Day 2. Wednesday February 4th, 2015: 10am–1pm. Vienna International Centre. Conducted by Canada (read it)

[1] 2015 SARA Western Regional Conference, Palo Alto, California, USA, 20–22 March 2015

Hi George
Attached is the announcement for the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) 2015 Western Conference to be held at Stanford University in California. As you know, SARA has many solar radio observers.

Best regards, Whit

For more details see the first attached file

(Sent in by W.D. Reeve)

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[2] 26th General Assembly of IUGG, June 22-July 2, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, Session A15

Dear editors,

Please distribute information about the below symposium, which is part of the General Assembly of IUGG (22 June to 2 July 2015, http://www.iugg2015prague.com/), to ROSMIC scientific community.

With best regards, Jan Lastovicka
co-chairman of
ROSMIC WG3

A15 Long-Term Trends in the Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Termosphere and Inosphere (Div. II-F/ICMA/SCOSTEP)
/*Convener: *Jan Lastovicka (Prague, Czech Republic)/ /*Co-convener:*G. Beig (ICMA, Pune, India)/

Greenhouse gases and other drivers cause long-term trends at higher levels in the atmosphere and ionosphere, which are much stronger than tropospheric trends. Papers on progress in investigating trends in the stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, based on ground-based as well as satellite-borne observations, model simulations, theoretical analyses, statistics and determination of trends, and laboratory experiments, are welcome. Particular attention should be paid to papers dealing with synthesis of various results and papers dealing with areas of open problems, like the quantitative difference between observations and models or long-term trends in winds and atmospheric wave activity.

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[3] Space Weather Services to Build Global Resilience: 3 Feb. 2015 in Vienna

For more details see the second attached file

(Sent in by T. Onsager)

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[4] VarSITI Newsletter, Vol.4, January 2015

For more details see the third attached file

(Sent in by K. Shiokawa)

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[5] Invitation for talks: AOGS session ST 30 (Singapore, August 2-7, 2015): ST 30: The Strange State of the Heliosphere during the Weak Solar Cycles 24 and its Implications

Abstract Deadline: February 18 2015 Details: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2015/
Session Description:

The solar activity in cycle 24 has been at the lowest level since the dawn of Space Age. The low solar activity has resulted in a weak heliosphere with diminished density, magnetic field and pressure among other interesting signatures. The effect of the weak solar activity has been observed from the solar interior, solar surface, corona, interplanetary medium, geospace, Earth’s atmosphere, and even the termination shock. The modified physical state of the heliosphere has resulted in significant impact on the propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and shocks, resulting in extremely mild space weather. Cycle 24 has witnessed the weakest level and frequency of large geomagnetic storms since 1957. Similarly, CMEs have produced the lowest number of high-energy (>500 MeV) solar energetic particle events since they were discovered in the 1940s. The weak activity is also a good opportunity to understand the role of the Sun in global warming. Since the low solar activity in cycle 24 resulted from the weak polar field of cycle 23, the natural question is whether this trend will continue resulting in a grand minimum over the next few solar cycles. Thus we have an opportunity to understand the weakening solar activity in terms of the variability of the solar dynamo.In order to promote active research to understand the peculiar state of the heliosphere its consequences, we invite papers dealing with observations, theory, and modeling investigations related to current solar activity. Comparative studies involving the current weak activity with historical low-activity periods are also solicited.

Conveners: Nat Gopalswamy Alexis Rouillard
Martin Mlynczak Kanya Kusano John Richardson

(Sent in by Nat Gopalswamy)

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[6] Agenda of UN COPUOS Expert Group on Space Weather

For more details see the fourth attached file

(Sent in by Ian Mann)

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**************[ End of this issue of the ISWI Newsletter ]******************
Attachments:

(1) Anouncement 2015 SARA Western Regional Conference 568 KB pdf, 2 pages (click link to document)

(2) Agenda of Space Weather Services to Build Global Resilience 47 KB pdf, 2 pages (click link to document)

(3) VarSITI Newsletter, Vol.4, January 2015 1 321 KB pdf, 12 pages (click link to document)

(4) Agenda UN COPUOS Expert Group on Space Weather 187 KB pdf, 2 pages (click link to document)

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