As announced in this space two issues ago, the VarSITI program is underway -- all over the world. It is especially active here in Japan. I forward to you the following email from Prof. Shiokawa, one of the co-chairs of VarSITI. It was sent to persons on the VarSITI mailing list, but I re-broadcast here for the benefit of the entire ISWI community. The mysteries of the sun are without bound ... so there is much to investigate ...
We have two VarSITI sessions in JpGU (Apr 28-May 2, Yokohama) and AOGS (Jul 28-Aug 1, Sapporo) in Japan this year. These sessions give a forum to discuss on-going and planned scientific projects related to VarSITI, in order to make coordination of various projects between the sun and the earth.
The session descriptions are shown below. If you join these conferences, please consider to make presentations on your scientific project(s) related to VarSITI.
During the last solar minimum in 2008-2009, the solar activity became extremely low. Then the next solar maximum of sunspot cycle 24 shows much lower activities compared with the previous two solar maximums in cycle 22 and 23. The scientists in the solar-terrestrial physics are watching very unusual solar activities and their consequences on Earth which have never been observed since modern scientific measurements become available. The next SCOSTEP program "Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI)" (2014-2018) will focus on this particular solar activity and their consequences on Earth, for various times scales from the order of thousands years to milliseconds, and for various locations and their connections from the solar interior to the Earth's atmosphere.
In order to elucidate these various sun-earth connections, we encourage communication between solar scientists (solar interior, sun, and the heliosphere) and geospace scientists (magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere). Campaign observations will be promoted for particular interval in collaboration with relevant satellite and ground-based missions as well as modeling efforts. Four scientific projects will be carried out in VarSITI as
(1) Solar Evolution and Extrema (SEE),This international session gives a forum to discuss on-going and planned scientific projects related to VarSITI, in order to make coordination of various projects between the sun and the earth. All presentations related to the solar-terrestrial relationship are welcome in the field of ground and satellite observations, theory, modeling, and applications for space weather forecast, as well as capacity building.
The scientists in the solar-terrestrial physics are watching very unusual solar activities in cycle 24 and their consequences on Earth which have never been observed since modern scientific measurements become available. The next SCOSTEP program "Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI)" (2014-2018) will focus on the particular solar activity and their consequences on Earth, for various times scales from the order of thousands years to milliseconds, and for various locations and their connections from the solar interior to the Earth's atmosphere. In order to elucidate these various sun-earth connections, we encourage communication between solar scientists (solar interior, sun, and the heliosphere) and geospace scientists (magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere). Campaign observations will be promoted for particular interval in collaboration with relevant satellite and ground-based missions as well as modeling efforts. Four scientific projects will be carried out in VarSITI as
(1) Solar Evolution and Extrema (SEE),This international session gives a forum to discuss on-going and planned scientific projects related to VarSITI, in order to make coordination of various projects between the sun and the earth. All presentations related to the solar-terrestrial relationship are welcome in the field of ground and satellite observations, theory, modeling, and applications for space weather forecast, as well as capacity building.
::::::::::::::: End 17-Jan-2014 email from Prof. Shiokawa ::::::::::::::::If you have any meeting announcements for the ISWI community, please send them to me for circulation in the ISWI Newsletter. Over 400 persons will see it.
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