COSPAR Panel on Space Weather

Terms of Reference | Panel Officers | Meetings | Reports | Awards | Reference Docs | Useful Links

News:

The next PSW meeting will take place during the 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 13-20th July 2008.

• The PSW Business Meeting will be held at 18:30, Wednesday 16th July, Room 524B. Please send agenda suggestions to Alexi Glover by 10th July
• The PSW1 session: Preparing for the Next Solar Maximum will be held on 17-18th July, Room 524B. Contacts: D. Boteler, J. Kunches

Introduction:

Welcome to the COSPAR PSW website. This site is intended to provide news of PSW related business and to maintain an archive of panel activities. If you have suggestions or recommendations for improvements to the site, please don't hesitate to contact the panel officers listed below.

The decision to create the PSW was taken in 1998 with the purpose of bridging the gap between the research and applications communities in this field and fostering cooperation in this new area of research. The initial contact point was G. Rostoker who consulted the Scientific Commission and Panel chairs to define the Panel's terms of reference and to submit a list of proposed officers.

Terms of Reference:

With the increasing use of operational communications, global positioning and remote sensing satellites and the expected increase in human activity in space, it has become all the more important to have a full understanding of the impact of the space environment on human and on technological systems. The membership of the PSW features a wide breadth of expertise on topics ranging from the biological effects of radiation and energetic particles on humans in space to the physical mechanisms through which the space environment (solar, magnetospheric, ionospheric and thermospheric) is disturbed and affect satellites and various systems on the ground, including electric power, positioning and communication systems. The purpose of the Panel on Space Weather is to provide to society, through COSPAR, expert knowledge on the space environment and to encourage the development of predictive techniques capable of forecasting changes in the space environment on a time scale that will allow steps to be taken to address the effects of changes in that environment. The Panel acts as a source of advice to the COSPAR Scientific Commissions on matters pertaining to Space Weather that cross the disciplinary boundaries of those Commissions.

Last updated 11 September 2006.

Panel Officers:

• Chair:
  • Takahiro Obara (Japan), 2006 - 2010 (t.obara - at - nict.go.jp)
• Vice-Chairs:
  • Alexi Glover (ESA/ESTEC), 2006 - 2010 (alexi.glover - at - esa.int)
  • Terry Onsager (USA), 2003 - 2007 (terry.onsager - at - noaa.gov)

Previous officers:

• 2003 - 2006
  • Chair: A. Hilgers (ESA)
  • V.-Chair: T. Onsager (USA)
  • V.-Chair: T. Obara (Japan)
• 1999 - 2003
  • Chair: T. Onsager (USA)
  • V.-Chair: Y. Kamide

Meetings and Events:

• Space Weather: Observations and Modeling for Applications and Operations, 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China, 2006
• Space Weather Prediction: Applications and Validation, 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, 2004
• Space Weather: Research and Applications, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Houston, Texas, USA, 2002
• Space Weather, 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Warsaw, Poland, 2000

Business Meeting Reports:

• 2006 Report - T. Obara
• 2004 Report - A. Hilgers

Related Awards:

Zeldovich Medals:

• E. Podladchikova, 2008, development and implementation of a method to statistically analyse solar eruption ensembles

Reference Docs:

Useful Links:

• International Space Environment Service
• International Living With a Star Programme
  • ILWS End Users Task Group (under construction)
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre
• ESA Space Environment and Effects Site

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