[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 2

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 2
January 18, 2016

Editor: Peter Chi
Co-Editor: Guan Le
Distribution Support: Sharon Uy, Todd King, Kevin Addison
Email: editor at igpp.ucla.edu       

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COSPAR 2016 SPECIAL ISSUE (ABSTRACTS DUE FEBRUARY 12)

Table of Contents

1. COSPAR 2016: General Information
2. Commission C Sessions: Space Studies of the Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets including Reference Atmospheres
3. Commission D Sessions: Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres
4. Other SPA-related Sessions

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COSPAR 2016: General Information

COSPAR 41st Scientific Assembly
July 30 - August 7, 2016
Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Turkey

Websites:
http://cospar2016.tubitak.gov.tr/en/default.asp

Abstract submission deadline: Friday, February 12, 2016 at 23:59 UTC14

Please visit http://www.cospar-assembly.org for online abstract submission system.

Below are the SPA-related sessions at COSPAR that are open for abstract submissions. Because of the large number of sessions, we urge readers to find detailed session descriptions online by following the web link at the end of each list.


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Commission C Sessions: Space Studies of the Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets including Reference Atmospheres

C0.1 International Standards for the Space Environment
Organizers: Vladimir Kalegaev, Yukihito Kitazawa

C0.2 Advances in Remote Sensing of the Middle and Upper Atmospheres and Ionosphere from the Ground and from Space, including Sounding Rockets, Novel Radar, and Multi-Instrument Studies
Organizers: David Rees, Esa Turunen

C0.3 Ionospheric Disturbances Observed through very Low Frequency Radio Waves
Organizers: Sudipta Sasmal, Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti

C1.1 Recent Advances in Equatorial, Low- and Mid-Latitude Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere Studies
Organizers: Paulo Roberto Fagundes, Alok Taori

C1.2 Recent Advances in the Thermospheric-Ionospheric-Geospheric Research (TIGER) Program
Organizers: Ludger Scherliess, Francis Eparvier

C1.3 Space and Ground-based Studies of the Coupled Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Organizers: Andrew Yau, Balan Nanan

C1.4 Regions of Enhanced Risk for Ionospheric Weather
Organizers: Feza Arikan, Tamara Gulyaeva

C2.1 Layered Phenomena in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
Organizers: Irina Strelnikova, Gerd Baumgarten

C2.2 Wave Coupling Processes and Consequences in the Whole Atmosphere
Organizers: Erdal Yiğit, Jens Oberheide

C2.3 Advances in External Forcing Studies for the Middle Atmosphere and Lower Thermosphere
Organizers: Yvan Orsolini, Alexie Krivolutsky

C3.1 Planetary Atmospheres
Organizers: Dmitrij Titov, Larry Esposito

C3.2 Planetary Upper Atmospheres, Ionospheres and Magnetospheres
Organizers: Anil Bhardwaj, Stephen Bougher

C3.3 Modelling of Planetary Atmospheres
Organizers: Alexander Rodin, Alexander Merdvedev

C4.1 Improved Description of the Ionosphere through Data Assimilation
Organizers: Dieter Bilitza, David Altadill

C4.2 Venus International Reference Atmospheres (VIRAII), Mars International Reference Atmosphere (MIRA) and Ionosphere (MIRI)
Organizers: Ludmila Zasova, Ehouarn Millour

C5.1 Active Space Experiments
Organizers: James Sheerin, Robert Moore

C5.2 Dusty Plasmas and Dust-Plasma Processes in Space
Organizers: Jiri Pavlu, Ingrid Mann

Commission C program website:
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/symposium.php?symposium=57


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Commission D Sessions: Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres

D1.1 Large Scale Heliospheric Structure: Theory, Modelling and Data
Organizers: Jens Kleimann, John Richardson

D1.2 Solar Modulation of Cosmic Rays
Organizers: Marius Potgeiter, Ming Zhang

D1.3 Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and beyond: Pickup Ions and Anomalous Cosmic Rays
Organizers: Vladimir Florinski

D1.4 Anomalous Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and the Galaxy
Organizers: Gaetano Zimbardo, Frederic Effenberger

D1.5 Anisotropy of Energetic Particles from keV to TeV
Organizers: Du Toit Strauss, Jakobus Le Roux

D2.1 Solar Transients: from Solar Origin to Earth Impact and the Outer Heliosphere
Organizers: Jie Zhang, Sergio Dasso

D2.2 Solar and Heliospheric Science with Future Space Missions
Organizers: Alessandro Bemporad, Christopher Owen

D2.3 Coordinated Observations and Modeling of Accelerated Particles at the Sun and in the Inner Heliosphere
Organizers: Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber, Nicole Vilmer

D2.4 Reconnection and Turbulence from the Sun through the Heliosphere to Galaxies
Organizers: Jörg Büchner

D2.5 Space Climate
Organizers: Ilya Usoskin, Kalevi Mursula, Dibyendu Nandi

D2.6 Abundance Variations and Fundamental Questions in Solar and Stellar Physics
Organizers: Deborah Baker, J Martin Laming 

D3.1 Multipoint Observations and Cross-Scale Coupling
Organizers: C. Phillipe Escoubet, Gurbax Singh Lakhina

D3.2 Magnetotail Dynamics and Substorms during Storm and Non-storm Times
Organizers: Elena Grigorenko, Ian Mann

D3.3 Highlights of Magnetospheric Plasma Physics
Organizers: Michael Balikhin, Lev Zelenyi

D3.4 Particle Acceleration and Loss in the Earth and Planetary Magnetospheres
Organizers: Yuri Shprits, Umran Inan

D3.5 Plasma Transport across Magnetospheric Boundaries
Organizers: Zdenek Nemecek, Zerefsan Kaymaz

D3.6 Role of Non-Thermal Distributions in Wave Generation, Particle Heating Acceleration in Space Plasmas
Organizers: Gurbax Singh Lakhina, Mouloud Tribeche

D4.1 Active Space Experiments
Organizers: James Sheerin, Robert Moore

D4.2 Dusty Plasmas and Dust-Plasma Processes in Space
Organizers: Jiri Pavlu, Ingrid Mann

Commission D program website: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/symposium.php?symposium=58


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Other SPA-related Sessions

E2.1 Solar and Stellar Dynamos and Magnetic Flux Emergence
Organizers: Emre Isik, Jie Jiang
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=596

E2.2 Formation, Destabilization, and Ejection of Magnetic Structures in Solar and Stellar Coronae
Organizers: Brigitte Schmieder, Yuhong Fan
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=597

E2.3 Solar Magnetism: Data-driven Modeling and Requirements for Future Instrumentation
Organizers: Sarah Gibson, Silvano Fineschi
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=598

E2.4 Multiwavelength Observations and Simulations of Solar and Stellar Flares
Organizers: Louise Harra, Petr Heinzel
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=599

PRBEM.1 Development of Physics-based, Empirical, and Data Assimilative Models of the Radiation Environment
Organizers: Yuri Shprits, Vincent Maget
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=644

PRBEM.2 Recent and Upcoming Observations of the Radiation Belts
Organizers: Adam Kellerman, Paul O’Brien
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=645

PSW.1 Metrics and Validation Needs for Space Weather Models and Services
Organizers: Alexi Glover, Maria Kuznetsova, Terrance Onsager
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=649

PSW.2 Solar System Space Weather
Organizers: Manuel Grande
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=650

PSW.3 From Ionospheric Indices towards Standardised Activity Scales for Space Weather Services
Organizers: Norbert Jakowski, Michael Terkildsen
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=651

PSW.4 Interoperability of Space Weather Data Models, Data Holdings and Data Access Tools
Organizers: Daniel Heynderickx, Ralf Keil
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=652

PSW.5 Understanding Space Weather to Shield Society: A Global Roadmap for 2015-2025 Commissioned by COSPAR and ILWS
Organizers: Carolus Schrijver, Kirsti Kauristie
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=653


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