Program&Presentations

A Final Program

Inaugural session chair: K. Shiokawa and K. Georgieva

09:00-09:10 Opening

09:10-09:20 Welcome note (TBD)

09:20-09:50 Gopalswamy N., SCOSTEP activities: an update

09:50-10:20 Shiokawa K., Georgieva K., SCOSTEP's scientific program VarSITI: Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact

10:20-10:40 Roussev I., Synergy between SCOSTEP and NSF's GEM, CEDAR, and SHINE programs

10:40-11:00 Haberreiter M., Global cooperation in Solar Terrestrial Physics

11:30-12:30 SCOSTEP Award ceremony Chair: M. Shepherd

Long–term Variation of the Sun and Climate Chair: J. Lastovicka

14:00-14:20 Nandy D., Long-term solar-stellar magnetic variability and its impact on planetary environments

14:20-14:40 Obridko V., Georgieva K., Solar activity in the following decades based on the results of the ISSI/VarSITI Forum on future evolution of solar activity, 01.03-03.03.2015 ISSI, Bern, Switzerland

14:40-15:00 Zharkova V.V. , Shepherd S.J. , Zharkov S.I., Popova E., Two principal components of solar magnetic field and their prediction on multi-millenium timescale

15:00-15:30 Shapiro A.I., Solanki S.K. 1,2, Krivova N.A. The historical variability of solar irradiance

Long–term Variation of the Sun and Climate (continuation) Chair: D. Nandi

16:00-16:30 Mursula K., Long-term evolution of solar wind: Implications to Sun and Earth

16:30-16:50 Lastovicka J., Development of climate of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere and the role of Sun

16:50-17:20 Ogawa Y., Long-term variations and trends in the polar ionosphere and thermosphere

17:20-17:50 Mlynczak M.G., Hunt L.A., The SABER Science Team A reconstruction of infrared radiative cooling of the thermosphere over the past 70 years - implications for long-term solar variability

17:50-18:10 Feynman J., Ruzmaikin A., Centennial Gleissberg cycle as a driver of climate change

Monday 06 June
18:10-19:00 Poster session 1

P1.1 Hady A., Mostafa M., The X-class flares released during the declining phase of SC-24

P1.2 Asenovska Y., Georgieva K., Short-term solar activity influence on regional weather and climate

P1.3 Besliu-Ionescu D., Talpeanu D., Muntean Maris M., Mierla M. Comparison between negative Bz duration and main phase duration during moderate geomagnetic storms of SC23

P1.4 Maris Muntean G. Besliu-Ionescu D., Talpeanu D., Lacatus D., Paraschiv A. High speed streams in the solar wind during the 24th solar cycle (2008 - 2015)

P1.5 Despirak I.V., Lubchich A.A., Kleimenova N.G., Study of magnetic substorms during the 23 and 24 solar cycles

P1.6 Kim S., Cho K.-S., Joshi B., Nonthermal emission initiating explosive solar eruption observed by Nobeyama radioheliograph, RHESSI, and SDO/AIA

P1.7 Kryakunova O., Belov A., Eroshenko E., Nikolayevskiy N., Thepakina I., Yanke V.,Proton enhancements of solar cosmic rays in the maximum of Solar Cycle 24

P1.8 Lee B., Cho K.-S., Jang S., Kim R.-S., Cho I.-H., Source locations of CME-driven Type II radio bursts

P1.9 Pinto R.F.,X-ray emission in simulations of flaring coronal loops  

P1.10 Uwamahoro J., Tuyizere S., Okoh D., Monstein C., An investigation of solar radio bursts on ionospheric total electron content

P1.11 Lugaz N., Farrugia C.J., The Geo-Effectiveness of CME Shocks and Sheaths

P1.13 Yuri Yermolaev, Irina Lodkina, Nadezhda Nikolaeva, Michael Yermolaev, Heliospheric drivers and their impact on geomagnetic storm generation

P2.1 Asenovski S., The role of the heliospheric current sheet in the geomagnetic activity floor

P2.2 Dobrica V., Pirloaga R., Stefan C., Demetrescu C., Long-term solar signals in the north temperate climate from reanalysed data

P2.3 Ryabov M.I., Sukharev A.L., Long‑term variation of the Sun as a result independent activity of the Northern and Southern hemispheres in 12‑24 cycles.

P2.4 Sokoloff D., Solar magnetic field and small-scale dynamo

P2.6 Tonev P., Atmospheric response to global lightning activity affected by decadal-scale solar variability - model estimations

P2.7 Werner R., Valev D., Guineva V., Danov D., Kirillov A., Influence of External and Internal Climate Factors on Regional Surface Temperatures

Solar and Heliospheric Drivers of Earth-Affecting Events Chair: J. Zhang

08:30-09:00 Tsurutani B., Understanding the Earth's space and atmospheric environment and its response to solar inputs

09:00-09:30 Schmieder B., Aulanie, G., Extreme solar storm based on solar magnetic field

09:30-10:00 Shibata K., How extreme can solar events be?

Solar and Heliospheric Drivers of Earth-Affecting Events (continuation)

Chair: B. Schmieder

10:30-11:00 Miyake F., Masuda K., Nakamura T., Jull A.J.T., Panyushkina I.P., Wachker L., Annual cosmic ray events shown in 14C data of tree-rings

11:00-11:20 Podgorny I.M., Podgorny A., About solar cosmic ray dynamics

11:20-11:40 Sokoloff D., Xu H., Stepanov R., Kuzanyan K., Zhang H., Gao Y., Current helicity and magnetic field anisotropy in solar active regions

11:40-12:00 Makela P., Gopalswamy N., Xie H., Comparison of three SEP events on 3 November 2011, 26 May 2012 and 5 March 2013 originating from solar backside eruptions

12:00-12:20 Slemzin V., Rodkin D., Shugay Yu., Veselovsky I., Identification of coronal origins of Interplanetary coronal Mass Ejections using plasma ion composition data

Solar and Heliospheric Drivers of Earth-Affecting Events (continuation)

Chair: M. Temmer

14:00-14:30 Zhang J., A Tale of two super-active regions: on the magnetic origin of flares and CMEs

14:30-14:50 Roussev I., Lugaz N, Al-Haddad N., Galsgaard K., Downs C., Lin J., Physical Origin of the Drivers of Space Weather at the Sun

14:50-15:10 Mierla M., Verdin A., Kilpua E., Rodrigue L., West M., Propagation of coronal mass ejections in different solar wind conditions

15:10-15:30 Gopalswamy N., Akiyama S., Yashiro S , Xie H., Makela P., Michalek G., Consequences of the anomalous expansion of coronal mass ejections in solar cycle 24

Solar and Heliospheric Drivers of Earth-Affecting Events (continuation)

Chair: N. Gopalswamy

16:00-16:30 Temmer M., Exceptions from the rules - `problem` CMEs

16:30-17:00 Nitta N., Stealth CMEs and stealthy geomagnetic sorms

17:00-17:20 Sanchez-Diaz E.,  Rouillard A.P., Lavraud B., Blelly P.L., Pinto R., Segura K., Tao C.. The very slow solar wind: properties, origin and variability

17:20-17:40 Troshichev O.A., Sormakov D.A., Relation of the PC index to the solar wind parameters and to magnetic disturbance indices AL and Dst in course of magnetic storms

Tuesday 07 June
17:40-19:00 Poster session 2

P3.1 Shiokawa, K., Martinez-Calderon C., Yonezu Y., K.Keika , M.Ozaki , M.Connors , J.K.Manninen , H.Yamagishi , M.Okada , C.Kletzing and O.Santolik. Observation of ELF/VLF waves associated with two intense magnetospheric compressions of January 18, 2013 and December 23, 2014

P3.2 Joshua B.W.,   Adeniyi J.O., Adimula I.A., Oladipo O.A., Olawepo O.A., Adebiyi S.J., Ionospheric response to the storm-time disturbance of 29 May, 2010

P3.3 Semenov A.I., Medvedeva I.V., Perminov V.I., Kochetkova T.A., Variations of the 63 micron atomic oxygen emission in the upper atmosphere

P3.4 Medvedeva J., Ratovsky K., Manifestation of the February 2016 sudden stratospheric warming in the neutral atmosphere and ionosphere parameters

P3.5 Owolabi O.P.,  Bolaji O.S., Oyeyemi E.O., Yamazaki Y., Rabiu A.B., Okoh D., Fujimoto A., Amory-Mazaudier C., Yoshikawa A., Latitudinal and longitudinal ionospheric Sq current response in the African chain due to the 2009 sudden stratospheric warming event

P3.6 Pilipenko V., Kozyreva O., Lorentzen D., Baddeley L., The correspondence between dayside long-period pulsations and the open-closed field line boundary

P3.7 Semkova J., Koleva R., Dachev Ts., Bankov N., Malchev S., Krastev K., Benghin V., Shurshakov V., Radiation investigations on the International Space Station: summary of results for years 2007/2015 obtained with Liulin-5 charged particle telescope

P3.8 Shetti D.J., Patil P.T., Nade D.P., Ghodpage R.P., Observations of equatorial plasma bubble at low latitude by optical and radio techniques

P3.9 Shpynev B.,  Ratovsky K., Zolotukhina N., Polekh N., Belinskaya A., Stepanov A., Bychkov V., Grigorieva S., Panchenko V., Korenkova N., Leschenko V., J.Mielich. Ionosphere response to major geomagnetic storm in March 2015 on the base of data from Eurasian high-midlatitudes ionosonde chain

P3.10 Shapovalov S.N., Troshichev O.A., Study of pulsed signals in UV spectra lines of free atmosphere above the Antarctic station Novolazarevskaya: effect of the solar irradiance?

P3.11 Narayanan V.L., Shiokawa K., Otsuka Y., Neudegg D., Yamamoto M., Differences between electrified medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances observed simultaneously in geomagnetic conjugate sites at Sata and Darwin

P3.12 Veretenenko S., Comparative analysis of short-term effects of cosmic ray variations on the development of extratropical baric systems

P3.13 Rabiu A.B, Abdulrahim R.B., On the use of total electron content as index of ionospheric response to magnetic activity over Nigeria within equatorial anomaly

P3.14 Mosna Z., Boska J., Koucka-Knizova P., Kouba D., Potuznikova K., Ionospheric response to geomagnetic storm and solar eclipse during March 2015

20:00-22:00 VarSITI Steering Committee meeting

Special session on Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Technique Service (HELCATS)

08:30-09:00 Lugaz N., Heliospheric transients: observations and modeling

09:00-09:20 Harrison R., Davies J., Perry C., Moestl C., Rouillard A., Bothmer V., Rodriguez L., Eastwood J., Kilpua E., Gallagher P., HELCATS - Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Techniques Service

09:20-09:40 Barnes D., Byrne J., Davies J., Harrison R, Perry C., and HELCATS team members, A Catalogue of geometrically-modeled coronal mass ejections observed by the STEREO heliospheric imagers

10:10-10:30 Bothmer V., Mrotzek N., Pluta A., Davies J., Harrison R., Gallagher P., Möstl C., Bockes P., Deriving/cataloguing CME kinematics from modelling multipoint observations

10:30-10:50 Plotnikov I., Rouillard A.P., Davies J.A., and the HELCATS team, Long-term tracking of corotating density structures using heliospheric imaging. Catalogue update

10:50-11:10 Pinto R.F., Rouillard A., Mays L., Simulating and cataloguing the background solar wind from 1 to 21 solar radii

11:10-11:30 Miteva R., Samwel S.W., Costa-Duarte M.V., Danov D., The novel solar energetic particle catalog from Wind/EPACT instrument

Data archiving Chair: T. Watanabe

11:30-12:00 Hori T., Miyoshi Y., Miyashita Y., Keika K., Shoji M., Segawa T., Umemura N., Seki K., Tanaka Y., Shinohara I., Data archive and integrated data analysis tools developed by ERG Science Center

12:00-12:20 Yermolaev Y., Lodkina I., Nikolaeva N., Yermolaev M., Catalog of large-scale solar wind phenomena: Current status

Data archiving (continuation) Chair: T. Hori

14:00-14:30 Watanabe T., Contribution of ICSU-WDS to data-oriented activities of VarSITI

14:30-15:00 Fung S.F., Gurman J.B., McGuire R.E., Roberts D.A., Using NASA Heliophysics multi-mission data support for SCOSTEP/VarSITI

Sun to Mud Campaign Study of March 15-17, 2015 Event

15:00-15:30 Webb D.F., Overview of VarSITI ISEST/MiniMax24 Working Group 4 studies on campaign events

Sun to Mud Campaign Study of March 15-17, 2015 Event (continuation) Chair: D. Webb

16:00-16:30 Cho K.-S., Marubashi K., Kim R.-S., Park S.-H., Lim E.-K., Kim S.-J., Kumar P., Yurchyshyn V., Case studies on connection of CME and interplanetary conditions: September 2014 and March 2015 events

16:30-17:00 Kanekal S.G., Baker D.N., The largest geomagnetic storm of solar cycle 24 on 17 March 2015: radiation belt electron response as observed by Van Allen Probes

17:00-17:30 Carter B.A., Yizengaw E., Pradipta R., Retterer J.M., Groves K., Valladares C., Caton R., Bridgwood C., Norman R., Zhang K., The occurrence of equatorial plasma bubbles around the world during the 2015 St. Patrick's Day geomagnetic storm: Modelling and observations

17:30-17:50 Mironova I., Response of the polar middle atmosphere to electron precipitation events

17:50-18:10 Demetrescu C., Dobrica V., Stefan C., Greculeasa R., Besliu-Ionescu D.,The induced surface electric response in Europe to 2015 St. Patrick’s Day geomagnetic storm. Comparison to strongest storms in cycle 23

Wednesday 08 June
18:10-19:00 Poster session 3

P4.1 Shagimuratov I.I., Chernouss S.A., Filatov M.V., Efishov I.I., Despirak I.V., Phase fluctuations of GPS signals and auroral activity during 17 March 2015 geomagnetic storm

P4.2 Guineva V., Despirak I.V., Kozelov B.V., Substorms observations during two strongly disturbed periods - in March 2013 and March 2015

P4.3 Hori T., Nishitani N., Keika K., Ruohoniemi J.M., Longitudinally-propagating ionospheric flow structures observed by SuperDARN during March 17-18, 2015 storm

P5.1 Hwang J.,, Shin D.-K., Lee D.-Y., Kim J.-H., Cho J.-H., Prediction model of the outer radiation belt considering local acceleration effect by chorus waves

P5.2 Pinto R.F., Brun A.S., Rouillard A., Solar wind speed and flux-tube geometry

P5.3 Pluta A., Bothmer V., Mrotzek N., Forecasting CME arrival times in 3D - The DDC tool

P6.1 Génot V., CDPP/STORMS teams, Tao C.,CDPP activities for Sun/planets connections

P6.2 Nikolayevskiy N., Kryakunova O., Kazakhstan Information Center for collection, archiving and presentation of geophysical data

P6.4 Miteva R., Solar energetic particle catalogs: assumptions, uncertainties and validity of statistical results

PS.1 Krupar V., Eastwood J., Zhukov J.M., Bisi M., Davies J., Harrison R., Barnes D., Preliminary catalogue of radio burst measurements

PS.2 Podgorny A.I., Podgorny I.M., Meshalkina N.S .Methods of MHD simulation and graphical system of search of solar flare

PS.3 Yashiro S., Gopalswamy N., Mäkelä P., Akiyama S., Automatic detection of prominence eruptions using SDO/AIA images

PS.4 Rouillard A.P., Plotnikov I., Pinto R., Using the HELCATS catalogue to study the connectivity of probes to coronal shocks

PS.5 Rouillard, A.P., Plotnikov, I., Pinto, R., CDPP , GFI and HELCATS teams, Interactive tools to access the HELCATS catalogues

Understanding the Earth’s space environment and its connection to space weather

Chair: H. Liu

08:30-09:00 Bothmer V., The 3D structure of CMEs - Implications for space weather forecasts

09:00-09:20 Tsurutani B.T., Hajra R., Echer E., Gonzalez W.D., Gjerloev J.W., Solar wind causes of magnetospheric/magnetotail loading and unloading: extreme ionospheric and atmospheric disturbances

09:20-09:40 Veretenenko S., Ogurtsov M..Polar vortex intensity as a modulating factor of cosmic ray influence on atmosphere dynamics and cloud cover anomalies

09:40-10:00 Pilipenko V., Kozyreva O., Soloviev A., Construction and validation of ULF wave indices as indicators of turbulent energy transfer into the magnetosphere

Understanding the Earth’s space environment and its connection to space weather

(continuation) Chair: W. Ward

10:30-11:00 Liu H., Concurrent responses of the ionosphere and thermosphere to solar flares

11:00-11:20 Shepherd M.G., Dynamical perturbations of the thermosphere inferred from satellite observations of O(1D) nightglow

11:20-11:40 Rabiu A.B., Eyelade V.A., Bolaji O.S., Adewale A.O. On the spatio-temporal variation of GPS-measured Total Electron Content over Nigeria within equatorial ionospheric anomaly region

11:40-12:00 Chang L.C., Sun Y.-Y., Yue J., Wang J.C., Chien S.-H., Coherent seasonal, annual, and quasi-biennial variations in ionospheric tidal/SPW amplitudes

Understanding the Earth’s space environment and its connection to space weather

(continuation) Chair: D. Pancheva

14:00-14:30 Knizova P.K., Recent advances in the vertical coupling in the Atmosphere–Ionosphere System - Review of IAGA WG II C/ICMA/SCOSTEP activity

14:30-15:00 Ward W., Lübken F.-J., Seppälä A., the ROSMIC Team , Progress in ROSMIC Science

15:00-15:20 Lübken F.-J.,  Scientific highlights from ROMIC

15:20-15:40 Park J., Min K.W., Lee J.-J., Kim H.-J., Hwang J., Kwak Y.-S., Monitoring the high-latitude ionosphere by Science and Technology Satellite-I of Korea

Understanding the Earth’s space environment and its connection to space weather

(continuation) Chair: P. K. Knizova

16:10-16:40 Lam M.M., Atmospheric dynamical responses to solar-wind-driven current density changes in the global electric circuit

16:40-17:10 Rozanov E., Energetic particle effects on the atmosphere and climate

17:10-17:40 Pancheva D., Mukhtarov P., Siskind D., Global distribution and climatological variability of quasi-two-day waves: results based on NOGAPS-ALPHA reanalysis model and MLS on the NASA Aura satellite measurements

17:40-18:00 Charles Lin, Jia-Ting Lin, Loren C.Chang, Yang-Yi Sun, Ionosphere Responses to Stratospheric Sudden Warming: Multiple years observations from FORMOSAT–3/COSMIC

18:00-18:20 Shiokawa K., Takeo D., Fujinami H., Otsuka Y., Gravity-wave coupling of the mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere observed by the Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTIs)

18:20-18:40 Y.Vyklyuk , M. Radovanovic , B. Milovanovic , T. Leko , M. Milenkovi , A. Yamashkin , A. Milanovic Pesic , D. Jakovljevic , S Malinovic-Milicevic. Application of the ANFIS models and parallel calculations for establishing potential causal link Sun-hurricanes

18:40-19:00 Medvedeva I., Ratovsky K., Seasonal and year-to-year patterns of atmospheric and ionospheric variabilities over Eastern Siberia

Modeling the connection from Sun to Mud (and all steps in between)

Chair: O.V. Martynenko

08:30-09:00 Inoue S., Kusano K., An MHD Modeling for the Onset and Dynamics of Solar Eruptions

09:00-09:20 Nikolaeva N., Yuri Yermolaev, Irina Lodkina. The development of magnetic storms driven by different solar wind streams and for various solar wind-magnetosphere coupling functions

09:20-09:40 Alexey Isavnin. FRi3D: A Novel 3D Model of CMEs

09:40-10:00 Podgorny A.I., Podgorny I.M.. Numerical simulation of the solar flare mechanism

Modeling the connection from Sun to Mud (and all steps in between) (continuation)

Chair: S. Inoue

10:30-10:50 T.Rollett , C.Moestl , A.Isavnin , M.Kubicka , U.V.Amerstorfer , J.A.Davies , R.A.Harrison. ElEvoHI: a novel CME prediction utility using heliospheric imagery

10:50-11:10 T.L.Gulyaeva. Risk of false alarms in ICMEs, IMF and solar wind predictive capabilities of the major geomagnetic and ionospheric storms

11:10-11:30 Al-haddad,  N., Poedts, S., Farrugia, C.J., Lugaz, N., Nieves-Chinchilla, T. . The evolution of CME properties with radial distance: numerical investigation

11:30-12:00 O.V.Martynenko , V.I.Fomichev , G.G.Shepherd , Y.-M.Cho , W.E.Ward , K.McWilliams , E.S.Ince , S.Pagiatakis . Canadian Atmosphere and Ionosphere Model: model status and applications

12:10-12:30 Ratovsky K., Shcherbakov A., Alsatkin S., Dmitriev A., Suvorova A., Topside electron density from Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar, COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 and International Reference Ionosphere

12:30-12:50 Chernigovskaya M., Shpynev B., Ratovsky K., Belinskaya A., Stepanov A., Bychkov V., Grigorieva S., Panchenko V., Korenkova N., Leschenko V., J.Mielich.Ionosphere response to the winter stratospheric jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere from vertical radio sounding data