[Shine-participants] Topical Issue of Solar Physics on “Earth-affecting Solar Transients”

[Jie Zhang]

Topical Issue of Solar Physics on “Earth-affecting Solar Transients”


We solicit research articles on the subject of Earth-affecting Solar Transients. In the past decade, nearly continuous observations of the Sun and the inner heliosphere with an unprecedented wide spatial coverage from a fleet of spacecraft, including STEREO Ahead/Behind, SDO, SOHO, Messenger, Venus Express, ACE and WIND, in combination with a significant advancement of global MHD numerical simulation and theoretical analysis, have greatly improved our understanding of solar transients and the prediction of their potential impact on Earth. Recently, the ISEST (International Study of Earth-affecting Solar Transients) Program was launched to bring together scientists across many countries to join efforts on addressing this problem. The event catalogs, data and information used during the past three ISEST workshops can be found at http://solar.gmu.edu/heliophysics/index.php/Main_Page. The ISEST is one of the four projects of the VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact) Program, sponsored by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics) for the period 2014 – 2018.



Earth-affecting solar transients encompass a broad range of phenomena, including major solar flares, CMEs, ICMEs, solar energetic particle events, and co-rotating interaction regions. We solicit research articles that address, but are not limited to, the following questions: (1) how do various geo-effective phenomena originate? (2) how do they propagate and evolve in the inner heliosphere? (3) how can we reconcile in-situ and  remote-sensing data on the transients? (4) how can we predict the probability of arrival, time of arrival, and geo-effectiveness of these phenomena? (5) what kind of solar wind transients are geoeffective and why? Articles on observational, numerical, and theoretical studies are all welcome. We particularly encourage results on campaign events listed in the ISEST website. This Topical Issue is not a conference proceedings volume and is not limited to research presented at the ISEST workshops. All submissions must be original papers that meet the quality and peer-review standards of Solar Physics.


The deadline for the Statement of Interest (SOI) is 15 June 2016, and the deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2016. Please submit the SOI (i.e., title, authors, a short abstract, and three potential referees) to Jie Zhang at jzhang7 at gmu.edu<mailto:jzhang7 at gmu.edu>.


Guest Editors: Jie Zhang, Alejandro Lara, Nandita Srivastava, and Xochitl Blanco-Cano.  Solar Physics Editor: Cristina Mandrini (mandrini at iafe.uba.ar).



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Jie Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor of Solar Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
4400 University Dr., MSN 3F3
Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Phone: (703)993-1998    Fax: (703)993-1269
E-mail: jzhang7 at gmu.edu
URL: http://solar.gmu.edu
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Release of the NSF Geospace Portfolio Review Report.

NSF’s Advisory Committee for Geosciences has released the report titled: Investments in Critical Capabilities for Geospace Science 2016 to 2025.  The report is the result of a portfolio review of the Geospace Section of the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences conducted over the last year by an external panel of community experts and leaders.   More information on the review can be found here: http://www.nsf.gov/geo/ags/geospace-portfolio-review-2015/
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The final report is available here: https://www.nsf.gov/geo/geoac_subcomm_rpts.jsp

The Geospace community owes the members of the committee a huge debt of gratitude  for taking on this important and difficult challenge for the community.  The review was an immense effort, which the committee carried out, under the eminent leadership of Chair Bill Lotko, with impeccable integrity and bringing to the task both deep insights and broad perspective as well as creativity and courage.

An independent assessment of the report will be carried out by the National Academies of Sciences.  More information on this process can be found here:  http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/SSB_169109


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