Solar Variability and Climate Change

October 10 - 12, 2002
George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Sponsors:

COSPAR D.2.3/E3.3 Commissions, ESA, SCOSTEP, IAMAS

Representatives:

NASA: William Wagner, ESA: Bernhard Fleck, SCOSTEP: S.T. Wu, IAMAS: Karin Labitzke

The purpose of this special COSPAR event is to couple the studies of solar variability and its effect on climate changes on time scales of millenia to decades. We call for papers which will summarize past, on-going and future measurements, modeling efforts and understanding the underlying processes of solar variability and climate changes.

Important Deadlines:

  1. Deadline for receipt of COSPAR abstracts: May 13, 2002 Abstract should be sent to COSPAR with a copy to the Main Scientific Organizer
  2. Deadline for Financial Support Application: May 1, 2002 Application form together with scientific abstract should be sent to the Main Science Organizer and a copy to COSPAR
  3. Deadline for Pre-Registration: August 16, 2002
  4. Deadline for Hotel Reservation: September 12, 2002

Detailed information about abstract submission, deadlines, grant requests, etc... can be found in the COSPAR Information Bulletin, Number 151, August 2001 issue and also at the COSPAR-website:

http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html

Call For Papers:

The Call for Papers may be found here

The Scientific Organizing Committee consists of:

J. Beer, B. Fleck, E. Friis-Christensen, P. Fox, C. Frohlich, J. Haigh, L. Hood, K. Labitzke (Co-Chair), J. Kuhn (Co-Chair), J. Pap (Main Organizer), D. Shindell, S. Solanki, W. Sprigg., W. Wagner, S.T. Wu

The editors of the Conference volume:

K. Labitzke and J. Kuhn.

Main Scientific Organizer:

Judit M. Pap
Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center
NASA Goddard Space Science Center
Code 680.0
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Ph:      301-286-7511
Fax:    301-286-1753
E-mail: p_cospar@marta.gsfc.nasa.gov

Preliminary Agenda:

2.5-day schedule, starting on Thursday morning
Thursday Morning (October 10)
8:30 - 8:35 Opening Remarks
Session 1: Natural Climate Variations
8:35 - 9:20 Variations from centuries to millennia, J. Beer (Tutorial) (confirmed)
9:20 - 9:50 Climate variations within the last 10,000 years, J.F. Negendank (confirmed)
9:50 - 10:05 Contributed Paper
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 1,000 Years of Climate Change, C. Keller (Confirmed)
11:00 - 11:15 Contributed paper
11:15 - 11:30 Contributed paper
11:15 - 11:45 Detection of solar signals in Climate, G. North (confirmed)
11:45 - 12:15 Detection of solar signals in Atmospheric parameters, M. Salby (confirmed)
12:15 - 12:30 Contributed paper
12:30 - 12:45 Contributed paper
 (5 invited and 5 contributed)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
Session 2: The Sun as a Variable Star
I. Measurements and Empirical Models of Solar Variability
14:00 - 14:45 Solar irradiance variations as measured from space, G. Rottman (Tutorial) (confirmed)
14:45 - 15:15 Irradiance models based on magnetic activity, S. Solanki and Y.Unruh (confirmed)
15:15 - 15:30 Contributed paper
15:30 - 15:45 Contributed paper
15:45 - 16:15 Break
II. Mechanisms and Physical Models for Solar and Stellar Variability
16:15 - 16:45 Global solar variability (helioseismology, luminosity, radius, etc talks here), J. Kuhn (confirmed)
16:45 - 17:15 Surface temperature changes of the Sun, D. Gray (confirmed)
17:15 - 17:45 Solar-stellar connections, M. Giampapa (confirmed)
17:45 - 18:00 Contributed paper
18:00 - 18:15 Contributed paper
18:15 - 18:30 Contributed paper
 (5 invited and 5 contributed)
18:30 - 19:30 Joint Business Meeting for S-Ramp/Climate and ISCS/WG1
Friday Morning: (October 11)
Session 3: Climate Modeling
8:30 - 9:15 Modeling the impacts of short- and long-term solar variabilityon climate, D. Shindell (confirmed)
9:15 - 9:45 Effect of solar irradiance variations on the Earth atmosphere and climate, J. Haigh (confirmed)
9:45 - 10:00 Contributed paper
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 10:45 Contributed paper
10:45 - 11:15 Has the Sun changed the climate? M. Schlesinger (confirmed)
11:15 - 11:45 Intercomparison of GCM models, U. Langematz (confirmed)
11:45 - 12:00 Contributed paper
12:00 - 12:15 Contributed paper
12:15 - 12:30 Contributed paper
 (4 invited and 5 contributed)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session 4: International Activities
14:00 - 14:30 CAWSES - Future SCOSTEP research, B. Schmeider (confirmed)
14:30 - 14:50 ISCS/WG1 activities, J. Pap and C. Frohlich (confirmed)
14:50 - 15:10 S-Ramp/Climate activities, E. Friis-Christensen (confirmed)
15:10 - 15:30 GRIPS: Solar Experiments Intercomparison Project: Initial Results, K. Kodera
15:30 - 15:45 Discussions
15:45 - 16:15 Break
16:15: poster session and plenary session: open discussions
Saturday Morning: (October 12)
Session 5: Particle Variations and Climate
8:30 - 9:15 Solar Energetic particle variations, D. Reames (Tutorial) (confirmed)
9:15 - 9:30 Contributed paper
9:30 - 10:00 Particle effects on climate, H. Svensmark and E. Friis-Christensen (confirmed)
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Solar irradiance, cosmic rays, clouds and climate, J. Kristiansson (confirmed)
11:00 - 11:15 Contributed paper
11:15 - 11:30 Contributed paper
11:30 - 11:45 Contributed paper
11:45 - 12:00 Closing remarks