Goals
SHINE is
an affiliation of researchers within the solar, interplanetary, and
heliospheric communities, dedicated to promoting an enhanced understanding of
the processes by which energy in the form of magnetic fields and particles are
produced by the Sun and/or accelerated in interplanetary space and on the
mechanisms by which these fields and particles are transported to the Earth
through the inner heliosphere. SHINE research focuses in particular upon the
connection between events and phenomena on the Sun and their relation to solar
wind structures in the inner heliosphere. The goal of SHINE activities is to
enrich and strengthen both physical understanding and predictive capabilities
for these phenomena.
SHINE
is intended to:
- serve as a forum for discussion, development, and
dissemination of ideas and results related to interplanetary aspects of
space weather research
- facilitate the development of community views on the
most compelling and productive research tasks and observational campaigns
to be undertaken
- offer opportunities for instigating new
collaborations
- provide a voice for the community
and the organizational framework needed to ensure that useful meetings and
workshops are conducted to effect progress on identified objectives.