28 March 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 382
Organisers: Bea Gallardo-Lacourt (NASA/CUA, USA); Doug Rowland (NASA, USA)
Session Description:
Space weather encompasses the conditions on the Sun, the solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere and atmosphere that influence the performance and reliability of space-based and terrestrial technologies. Variations in the near-Earth space environment can disrupt satellite operations, communications, navigation systems, and electric power distribution grids, leading to significant socio-economic challenges. To thoroughly understand and accurately predict these variations, it is essential to study the Sun, the solar wind, and the interactions within Earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. Many of the space weather variations of greatest interest to our society begin in the polar regions, and have their greatest impacts there, before they drive further variations at low and mid latitudes.
Studying this integrated system requires a coordinated interdisciplinary approach, combining all available modalities – space-based and ground-based observations as well as numerical modeling and advanced data analysis techniques. Upcoming NASA satellite missions, such as SMILE, RADICALS, Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC), and Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC), play a critical role in advancing our understanding and predictive capabilities of space weather phenomena. These missions represent a significant leap forward in our space-based observational capabilities in the ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere system. Now is the time to plan scientific studies, campaigns, and observational, modeling, and analysis capabilities to be ready to leverage these significant new databases, expected to come online in time for the next International Polar Year.
In this session we invite contributed talks that focus on space weather, its drivers, and the responses of Earth’s atmosphere.