25 Feb 2013.

The abstract submission page has now been opened for the International CAWSES-II Symposium which will be held on November 18-22, 2013, at Nagoya, Japan.

This International CAWSES-II Symposium hosted by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics) will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss the scientific accomplishments of CAWSES-II and look forward to SCOSTEP's future programs at a moment toward the end of its five-year period.

Session structures
(session descriptions are available at the website mentioned above):

Tutorial Lectures (45min x 7, TBD)

Panel 1: Long time change/trend of the sun-earth system
Coordinator: K. Kusano (STEL, Nagoya U.)

Panel 2: Variability of the sun-earth system
Coordinator/Moderator: J. Oberheide (Clemson U.)

Panel 3: Beyond the CAWSES-II
Coordinator/Moderator: N. Gopalswamy (NASA)

SS-1: Solar Influences on Earth's Climate
Session leaders: Ilya Usoskin, Katja Matthes, Annika Seppala

SS-2: Geospace Response to Altered Climate
Session leaders: Jan Lastovicka, Daniel Marsh, Gufran Beig

SS-3: Short-term Solar Variability and Geospace
Session leaders: Kazunari Shibata, Joe Borovsky, Yoshiharu Omura

SS-4: Geosphace Response to Lower Atmospheric Waves
Session leaders: Jens Oberheide, Kazuo Shiokawa, Subramanian Gurubaran

SS-5: eScience and Informatics Successes and Challenges for CAWSES-II
Session leaders: Peter Fox, Janet Kozyra, Yasuhiro Murayama

Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013

or directly at the following addresses:
• - Report of the Secretariat on the Seventh Meeting of the ICG, 5 - 9 November 2012, Beijing, China, A/Ac.105/1035 in English (http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/reports/ac105/AC105_1035E.pdf);
• - Report of the Secretariat on the Activities carried out in 2012 in the framework of the workplan of the ICG, A/AC.105/1034 in English (http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/reports/ac105/AC105_1034E.pdf)
• - Report on the United Nations/Latvia Workshop on the applications of GNSS, Riga, 14 - 18 May 2012, A/AC.105/1022 in English (http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/reports/ac105/AC105_1022E.pdf)
• - The United Nations publication (ST/SPACE 59) "Education Curriculum on GNSS, including the Glossary of GNSS terms" (in English only) (http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/icg/2013/Ed_GNSS_eBook.pdf)

Please also note that the presentation on the ICG and its programme on GNSS applications was made under the agenda item "Recent developments in global navigation satellite systems" in the 50th Session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee" . This presentation and the presentations made under agenda item "Space Weather" have also been made available on the OOSA website at:
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/COPUOS/stsc/2013/presentations.html