SHINE 1996 Workshop

Purpose

The main thrust of the meeting was to provide a forum for members of the solar/interplanetary/heliospheric community to discuss how best to apply basic research knowledge, skills, and techniques to the practical problem of space weather forecasting.

Topics for the workshop included:

• Definition of the key elements and tools essential to space weather forecasting from the solar/interplanetary perspective. This involved consideration and assessment of models, techniques, and data streams existing or under development.
• Identification of those pieces of the overall picture most likely to produce significant results in the near future, and ways to facilitate their implementation.

• Consideration of specific study events optimized from the solar and interplanetary data point of view.

These discussions were intended to contribute to the evolution of a community response to the NSF draft implementation plan for space weather research.

Finally, participants had an opportunity to further define the organizational structure of SHINE.

Agenda

A limited number of invited presentations were scheduled to promote and provoke discussions in the working assembly.

Prospective attendees were invited to submit specific, brief contributions concerning the state of the art as regards observation, theory, and modeling in the following three broad subject areas:

• Approach and Impact.
  

  Near-Earth monitoring and sensing of solar wind disturbances;
  issues in utilization of real-time spacecraft data collected
  upstream of the bow shock; propagation of solar wind
  disturbances through the bow shock and on into the
  magnetosheath; entry of solar wind energetic particles
  into the geomagnetic environment; current and desired
  inputs to magnetospheric and upper atmospheric models.
  

• Propagation and Interplanetary Evolution.

  
  Passage of solar disturbances through the structured solar
  corona; entry into the interplanetary regime and dynamical
  interaction with the global background flow; acceleration
  and transport of energetic particles; structure of ejected
  plasmoids/driver gas; techniques for remote sensing of
  interplanetary disturbances enroute to Earth.
  

• Evolution, Build-up, Initiation, and Launch.

Solar mechanisms producing the global solar wind structure
and secular changes in its configuration; processes leading
to rapid, impulsive changes in the corona and the expulsion
of material from the Sun; generation of intense bursts of