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MEETING OF ISCS WORKING GROUP 3: Solar Emissions: Origins and Transport Through the Heliosphere

Coordinators: David Webb and George Simnett

Nagoya, Japan; July 11, 1998

The International Solar Cycle Studies (ISCS) program has been approved by the ICSU and SCOSTEP. ISCS is an international program of research with the goal of specifying the space environment during the rise and maximum of solar cycle 23: 1998-2002. We will be holding our first meeting just before COSPAR which is to be held in Nagoya, Japan; July 12-19, 1998. The ISCS meeting will be held at the Nagoya Congress Center, the same location as the COSPAR meeting. The ISCS meeting will an all-day meeting on Saturday, July 11, and will consist of invited and contributed papers with ample time for discussion.

The research program of ISCS is divided among three Working Groups. This is an invitation to join WG3 - Solar Emissions: Origins and Transport Through the Heliosphere. The Coordinators of WG3 are George Simnett and David Webb. You are also invited to participate in our first meeting with ISCS in Nagoya.

The objectives of WG3 are to study the following topics on the heliospheric aspects of solar emissions during the rise and maximum phases of Solar Cycle 23: (1) the origins of solar dynamic phenomena; (2) the interplanetary propagation of CMEs, shocks and solar energetic particles; and (3) the interaction of these disturbances and solar wind streams with the magnetosphere. Solar activity provides the driving force for disturbances in the heliosphere and geomagnetic storms. Recent exciting observations of the Sun have been made from spacecraft such as Yohkoh and SOHO and by ground-based observatories. The heliosphere has been probed by many spacecraft, most recently by Ulysses, SOHO and WIND. During solar cycle 23 several new missions are planned such as TRACE and SMEI. Our Working Group plans to use such observations and associated modelling to address specific questions of importance to studies of solar and interplanetary disturbances and their coupling to the magnetosphere, including aspects of Space Weather.

For more information on the ISCS program see the Web page at: http://cspar.uah.edu/iscs/

If you are interested in participating in the activities of Working Group 3, whether or not you can attend the ISCS meeting in Japan, please send the following pertinent information to both Dave Webb and George Simnett. Send us this information as soon as you can, but before April 30, and preferably by E-mail to: webb@plh.af.mil or gms@star.sr.bham.ac.uk

Our post addresses are:

David Webb			George Simnett
AFRL/VSBS			The University Of Birmingham
29 Randolph Road		School of Physics and Space Research
Hanscom AFB, MA			Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
01731-3010 U.S.A.		U.K.
Fax: 1-781-377-3160		44-121-414-3722

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