Plenary sessions
Convenors: Jesse Andries, Masha Kuznetsova, Joaquim Eduardo Rezende Costa
Space Weather affects our society irrespective of national boundaries. Furthermore, the monitoring of both the Solar precursors and the impacts on geospace and the Earth’s atmosphere and surface, involves sensors deployed and operated on a global scale. Therefore, a globally efficient operation of the monitoring infrastructure requires global international cooperation and coordination. And likewise, modelling and scientific research benefit from global cooperation and exchange of knowledge and data.
This session invites contributions addressing international coordination and cooperation efforts in all areas related to Space Weather such as monitoring infrastructure, modelling, fundamental scientific research, service development and operation, data sharing and interoperability. The aim is to maintain and generate awareness of the various initiatives to maximise the exchange and cooperation between those initiatives, stimulate complementarity between the approaches and avoid inefficient duplication of effort.
In particular, we welcome examples and proposals for joint pilot projects involving multiple organizations in areas where international coordination is lacking, to demonstrate the value of coordination and foster collaboration to advance our understanding of space weather impacts.
Convenors: Fabrice Cipriani, Iannis Dandouras, Hanna Rothkaehl, Audrey Vorburger
The Moon’s regolith is subject to a large range of interactions with space radiation (EUV, solar energetic particles, galactic cosmic rays), solar wind and terrestrial magnetospheric plasmas, as well as micrometeoroids, impacting both its bulk properties and the tenuous lunar atmosphere (exosphere). While more institutional and private missions and operators are targeting to land and explore the lunar surface, the large temporal and spatial variability of Space Weather driven environmental conditions result in complex surface conditions in terms or radiation, plasma, surface charging, charged dust and impact ejecta to which future exploration assets will be exposed. Therefore, a better understanding of the response of the lunar surface environment to changing Space Weather conditions becomes critical to the success and lifetime of future missions. This session aims at gathering and discussing current advances in modelling of environmental (radiation, plasma and micrometeoroids) impacts on the lunar surface properties and responses in regions of interest (e.g polar), as well as results from data analysis from past and current lunar missions, in order to better inform current and future lunar exploration mission design, especially regarding the characterization of the lunar surface and near-surface environment.
Convenors: Yana Maneva, Leila Mays Markus, Rendani Nndanganeni, Junghee Cho
In the era of vastly developing new space technology and space travel the role of reliable space weather services becomes ever more important in support of resilient operations and safety of human flights. Furthermore, in the present years of maximum solar activity within the current solar cycle, major space weather events with significant impact on various systems, infrastructure or even human health are more likely. Space weather services are of general interest to a large number of end users and various industries, including spacecraft launch and operations, aeronautics and aviation among many others. The possible impacts on spacecraft hardware and electronics, navigation, HF communication and radiation exposure make space weather services a crucial part of present and future safety analysis, risk estimations and mitigation. Keeping in mind the great importance of space weather services, the topic of service validation is not only timely, but becomes inevitable and pressing. The goal of this session is to identify validation needs and provide a comprehensive view of various validation methods used within the space weather community.
The session envisions to non-exclusively address validation of scientific models, which could be used in support of space weather service provision, as well as validation of operational and pre-operational services. This includes validation of space weather forecasts and products, as well as their timeliness and dissemination. The services can be validated either against other models or against observables, such as detected space weather impacts. The session welcomes, but is not limited to, contributions featuring validation of ESA space weather products, CCMC and VSWMC, as well as other operational and pre-operational models. The session also stimulates discussion of validation needs upon model transitioning from research to operation. The outcome of the session would serve to demonstrate the reliability of space weather services to the end user, reducing the gap between observed space weather impacts and the operational service provision.
Convenors: Chantale Damas, Antti A. Pulkkinen, Chigomezyo Ngwira
Space weather is a natural hazard that threatens critical technology assets globally, and mitigating its impacts is an urgent need for social and economic well-being, and global security. Therefore, accelerating our knowledge of space weather is imperative, and hinges on building capacities of individuals, organizations, and society as a whole. As an emerging field, space weather is changing rapidly, and will therefore require new skills, abilities, and resources that must be sustained over time. As ESWW celebrates 20 years of “expanding horizons, from fundamental science to protecting society,” capacity building is a topic that is relevant to the international space weather community. Building capacity through training, research, and innovation can transform the emerging field of space weather. In this session, we welcome contributions describing ongoing and new capacity building activities from the global space weather community (educators, institutions, and organizations), especially those from developing countries.