SPACE WEATHER
ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 344
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. (
[email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands (
[email protected]) MEMBERS F. BERTOLA, University of Padua, Italy; J.P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; C.J. CESARSKY, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany; P. EHRENFREUND, Leiden University, The Netherlands; O. ENGVOLD, University of Oslo, Norway; A. HECK, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France; E.P.J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; V.M. KASPI, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; J.M.E. KUIJPERS, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; H. VAN DER LAAN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; P.G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK; F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy; V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India; B.V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia; R.A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
SPACE WEATHER Research Towards Applications in Europe
Edited by JEAN LILENSTEN Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble, France
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
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Session 1: The Solar Weather/Solar Activity Monitoring and Forecast CHAPTER 1.0. The Solar Weather/Solar Activity Monitoring and Forecast Ronald van der Linden CHAPTER 1.1. Using CME Observations for Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting Andrei N. Zhukov CHAPTER 1.2. Solar Activity Monitoring Peter T. Gallagher, R. T. James McAteer, C. Alex Young, Jack Ireland, Russell J. Hewett and Paul Conlon CHAPTER 1.3. Modeling of Solar Energetic Particles in Interplanetary Space Rami Vainio, Neus Agueda, Angels Aran and David Lario CHAPTER 1.4. Simulating CME Initiation and Evolution: State-of-the-art S. Poedts, B. van der Holst, C. Jacobs, E. Chané, G. Dubey and D. Kimpe CHAPTER 1.5. Signatures of the Ancient Sun Constraining the Early Emergence of Life on Earth M. Messerotti and J. Chela-Flores
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Session 2: The Sun’s Interaction with the Earth’s Thermosphere and Climate System CHAPTER 2.0. The Sun’s Interaction with the Earth’s Thermosphere and Climate System A.S. Rodger v
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CHAPTER 2.1. Solar Variability and Climate Joanna D. Haigh
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CHAPTER 2.2. Influence of Solar Activity Cycles on Earth’s Climate Nigel D. Marsh
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CHAPTER 2.3. Unravelling Signs of Global Change in the Ionosphere Thomas Ulich, Mark A. Clilverd, Martin J. Jarvis and Henry Rishbeth
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CHAPTER 2.4. Thermosphere Density Model Calibration Eelco Doornbos CHAPTER 2.5. Numer