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About this Symposium

Description:

VarSITI, the scientific program of SCOSTEP, is coming to an end. For five years, more than 1,100 scientists from 71 countries have been working on its four scientific projects:

• SEE (Solar Evolution and Extrema),
• MiniMax24/ISEST (International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients),
• SPeCIMEN (Specification and Prediction of the Coupled Inner-Magnetospheric Environment), and
• ROSMIC (Role Of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere In Climate)

VarSITI focuses on the recent and expected future solar activity and its consequences for the Earth, over various time scales from thousands of years to milliseconds, and at various locations from the solar interior to the Earth’s atmosphere. In particular, VarSITI focuses on the interconnections in the Sun-Earth system, and encourages the interaction among scientists working on different aspects of this complex system.

The purpose of this Closing Symposium
is to summarize the results of the program: what progress has been made, what new scientific questions have emerged, what should be the focus of the next scientific program.