Space Climate 7

The Future of Solar Activity

Space Climate Symposium on July 8-11 , 2019

Canton Orford, Québec, Canada

About Space Climate 7 Symposium

The Space Climate Symposia Series brings together leading experts in the field of space climate. The objectives of the Symposia are three-fold:

  1. to better understand the causes and effects of long-term variations in solar activity, with focus on the solar magnetic dynamo, and how the magnetic field it generates produces the various phenomena collectively making up solar activity: e.g., sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections, coronal holes, high-speed solar wind streams etc;
  2. to better understand how the varying solar activity affects the near-Earth space, atmosphere and even climate, on time scales ranging from a few solar rotations up to several millennia;
  3. to better understand the intricacies of the various datasets used to make inferences about long-term solar variations: e.g., the sunspot number time series and geomagnetic observations.

Symposium deadlines:

Registration:

Early bird registration

CAD$425

31.03.2019

Normal registration

CAD$525

30.04.2019

Late registration

CAD$625

21.06.2019

  • Prices include all taxes and sevice fees

Abstract submission:

Oral contribution

30.03.2019

Poster contribution

01.06.2019

  • Abstract submission for posters may close before 1 June, if maximum capacity is reached

Accommodation:

Hôtel Estrimont Suites & SPA

06.06.2019

  • Please book early, the number of rooms available is limited

Registration

You can create, modify and complete your form at any time until the deadline, June 21th, 2019. Just use your email and the password that will be attributed to you.

After this date, if you need to communicate new information or to modify your application, please contact the committee, spaceclimate7@astro.umontreal.ca.

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ABSTRACT

Abstracts for contributed oral presentation must be submitted before 30 March 2019; Abstracts for poster presentation can be submitted until 1 June 2019.

Symposium program

Symposium will take place July 8-11, 2019.

Below you can find the daily program here and PDF version (last update: 2019-06-18) and list of posters in PDF version

Monday 8.7. Symposium day 1

08:30-08:45
Welcome and practicalities

Session 1: Solar dynamo as a driver of space climate

08:30-08:45
Opening
08:45-09:25
The solar dynamo: changing views
Manfred SCHÜSSLER
09:25-09:55
Solar deep convection zone to surface (WEB)
Hideyuki HOTTA
09:55-10:10
Mean-field modeling of large-scale dynamo in solar-like strongly-stratified convection - the Rossby number dependence - (WEB)
Youhei MASADA
10:10-10:50
Recent progress in MHD simulations of convecion and dynamo action
Antoine STRUGAREK
10:50-11:20
Modelling solar and stellar activity driven by turbulent dynamo effects (WEB)
Jörn WARNECKE
11:20-11:40
Coffee break

Session 2: Solar photosphere and TSI/SSI

11:40-12:20
Long-term variability of solar irradiance (WEB)
Natalie KRIVOVA
12:20-12:35
An Historical TSI Reconstruction Based on Reevaluations of the TSI Composite and Sunspot Records (WEB)
Greg KOPP
12:35-12:50
New reconstruction of the solar UV flux since 1950 from observations
Thierry Dudok de WITTE
12:50-13:05
New solar spectrum SOLAR-ISS2 from 400 nm up to 5000 nm at very high resolution (better than 0.01 nm) (WEB)
Luc DAMÉ
13:05-14:30
Lunch
14:30-15:10
Solar Irradiance Variability Observations during Solar Cycles 21 to 24 (WEB)
Thomas WOODS

Session 3: Solar corona, solar wind and heliosphere

15:10-15:50
Cycle 24 and Longer-term Evolution of the Solar Photospheric and Coronal Magnetic Field (WEB)
Gordon PETRIE
15:50-16:15
Coffee break
16:15-16:30
Two-Dipole Model of the Sun's Magnetic Field (WEB)
Bertalan ZIEGER
16:30-17:10
Evolution the slow solar wind during a solar cycle (WEB)
Alexis P. ROUILLARD
17:10-17:25
Polar conic current sheets. Characteristics of the newfound objects in the heliosphere and in the solar atmosphere (WEB)
Olga V. KHABAROVA
17:25-18:00
Poster session summary
18:00
Welcome reception and poster viewing

Tuesday 9.7. Symposium day 2

Session 4: Long-term solar activity

08:30-09:10
Long-term studies of photospheric magnetic fields on the Sun (WEB)
Alexei PEVTSOV
09:10-09:25
Solar cycle measurements of lifetimes of active and ephemeral region flux (WEB)
Eddie ROSS
09:25-09:40
Composite of plage areas over the entire 20th century (WEB)
Theodosios CHATZISTERGOS
09:40-10:10
How Hemispheric Polar Field Reversal Sets the Timing and Shape of the Solar Cycle (WEB)
Andrés MUÑOZ-JARAMILLO
10:10-10:25
Advanced statistics to model the Sunspot Number series (WEB)
Laure LEFEVRE
10:25-10:40
Nine Millennia of Multimessenger Solar Activity (WEB)
Leif SVALGAARD
10:40-11:05
Coffee break
11:05-11:45
Long-term Variability of Solar Eruptive Events (WEB)
Nat GOPALSWAMY
11:45-12:00
Extreme Solar Particle Storms: Occurrence Probability and Implications (WEB)
Ilya USOSKIN
12:00-12:30
Solar Radio Monitoring in Canada F10.7, Past, Present and Future (WEB)
Ken F. TAPPING
12:30-13:00
Historical Candidate Auroras in Comparison with Auroral Reports during Known Extreme Events (WEB)
Hisashi HAYAKAWA
13:00
EXCURSIONS
18:00
DINNER

Wednesday 10.7. Symposium day 3

Session 5: Solar cycle prediction

08:30-09:10
Predictions of Solar Cycle 24, Hindsight is 20/20 (WEB)
W. DEAN PESNELL
09:10-09:40
Solar Cycle 25 Predictions (WEB)
Lisa UPTON
09:40-10:10
Predictability of the solar cycle and its application into the prediction of cycle 25 (WEB)
Jie JIANG
10:10-10:40
Advances in model-based predictions of decadal and "seasonal" solar activity (WEB)
Mausumi DIKPATI
10:40-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:40
Solar cycle prediction on your fingers (and toes) (WEB)
Kristof PETROVAY
11:40-11:55
Challenges of Solar Cycle Prediction Introduced by ’Rogue’ Active Region Emergences (WEB)
Melinda NAGY
11:55-12:25
How many active regions are needed to predict the solar dipole moment? (WEB)
Anthony R YEATES
12:25-12:40
Solar cycle forecasting, using a data-driven 2×2D Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model (WEB)
Alexandre LEMERLE
12:40-14:00
Lunch

Session 6: Data analysis methods

14:00-14:30
An information-theoretical approach to complex dynamics: solar flares and geomagnetic substorms (WEB)
Jay R JOHNSON
14:30-14:45
Information theoretic approach to discovering causalities in the solar cycle (WEB)
Simon WING

Session 7: Solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction

14:45-15:15
Predictability of the variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling (PRESTO) (WEB)
Ioannis A. DAGLIS
15:15-15:30
Geomagnetic activity and geomagnetic storms throughout the Grand Modern Maximum: Centennial history of geo-effective solar variability (WEB)
Kalevi MURSULA
15:30-16:10
Space weather impacts and predictions: relevant spatial and temporal scales (WEB)
Antti A PULKKINEN
16:10-16:35
Coffee break
16:35-17:15
Towards a better understanding of long term drivers of radiation belt electron acceleration and loss (WEB)
Craig RODGER
17:15-17:45
TBD
Aude CHAMBODUT
17:45-18:00
Explicit IMF By-dependence in geomagnetic activity (WEB)
Lauri HOLAPPA
18:00-18:15
Long-term Variation of the Coupling between Solar Proxies: Coupled Oscillators Approach (WEB)
Anton S SAVOSTIANOV
18:15-18:30
Space Climate Forcing of the Earth Climate (WEB)
Alexander RUZMAIKIN

Thursday 11.7. Symposium day 4

Session 8: Solar influence on atmosphere and climate

08:30-09:00
Solar wind influences on the ionosphere-earth current density and its influence on clouds (WEB)
Brian A TINSLEY
09:00-09:30
A New Mechanism to Explain the Wilcox et al. (1973) Effect (WEB)
Bruce T. TSURUTANI
09:30-10:10
Direct and indirect impacts of energetic particle precipitation into the atmosphere (WEB)
Miriam SINNHUBER
10:10-10:35
Coffee break
10:35-11:15
A review on energetic particle fluxes and their parameterization for climate research (WEB)
Hilde NESSE TYSSØY
11:15-11:30
Effect of energetic particle precipitation on atmospheric dynamics and climate variations (WEB)
Timo ASIKAINEN
11:30-12:00
Solar wind imprint on gravity waves and atmospheric circulation (WEB)
Paul PRIKRYL
12:00-12:30
Infrared Radiation in the Thermosphere from 1947 to 2019 (WEB)
Linda HUNT
12:30-13:00
Closing
Alexander RUZMAIKIN

Venue

The Space Climate 7 Symposium will take place 8-11 July 2019 in Canton Orford, in Québec's beautiful Eastern Townships, about one hour from Montréal.

The meeting venue is the Hôtel Estrimont Suites & SPA, located near the Mont-Orford National Park, which offers a wide variery of outdoor activities.

Registration, hotel and shuttle reservations, and abstract submission will all open on 17 October 2018 on this web page.

Accommodation

Accommodation for symposium participants

A block of 80 rooms has been reserved at Hôtel Estrimont Suites & SPA, the meeting venue.

We highly recommend taking advantage of the housing package offered at the Hôtel Estrimont Suites & SPA, which is the meeting venue. This includes 4 nights, from 7 to 10 july inclusive, with 4 full buffet breakfasts, 2 buffet lunches, and access to all hôtel facilities. Reservations must be made directly with Hôtel Estrimont, either by phone at 1-800-567-7320, or filling in this *reservation form* and return it by fax at 1-819-843-4909, or by email at coordination@estrimont.ca. Upon reservation you must indicate the group code SPACECLIMATE7. It also possible to secure accommodation for additional nights before or after the meeting at a special group rate. Prices given below are for the 4-day meeting package (arrival 7 July, departure 11 July), and include all applicable taxes and service charges.

Single occupancy: CAD$801
Double occupancy: CAD$473 per person
Reservation deadline: June 6th, 2019.

Travel and Visa

Getting to Canton Orford

Most participants should plan to fly into Montréal's Trudeau International Airport. Montréal-Trudeau (YUL) is an international airports served by most major airlines, and by most major car rental firms. Shuttle service to and from the Eastern Townships is provided by AeroNavette

Visa

Participants requiring a visa to enter Canada are urged to begin the visa application process as soon as possible, as this can be a long process in some countries, depending of your nationality or dual-citizenship status. Find out if you need a Visa or Electronic Travel Authorization: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp If you require an invitation letter for your visa application, please send an email to: spaceclimate7@astro.umontreal.ca.

Contact

For any questions, contact us at spaceclimate7@astro.umontreal.ca

Scientific Organizing Committee

Paul Charbonneau
Université Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Marius Echim
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Katya Georgieva
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Bulgaria
Sarah Gibson
NCAR, CO, USA
Nat Gopalswamy
NASA GSFC, USA
Dan Marsh
NCAR, CO, USA
Kalevi Mursula (chair)
University of Oulu, Finland
Dibyendu Nandi
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India
Alexei Pevtsov
National Solar Observatory, NM, USA
Alexander Ruzmaikin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, CA, USA
Alexis Rouillard
CNRS, IRAP, Toulouse, France
Andrei Tlatov
Kislovodsk Solar Observatory Observatory, Kislovodsk, Russia
Ilya Usoskin (vice-chair)
Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Finland
Mirela Voiculescu
University "Dunarea de Jos", Galati, Romania

Local Organizing Committee

  • Paul Charbonneau (LOC chair)
  • Cassandra Bolduc (LOC vice-chair)
  • Andrew Cumming
  • Luc Turbide
  • Ljubomir Nikolic
  • Alexandre Lemerle
  • Benoit Tremblay
  • Christian Thibeault
  • Alexandre Champagne-Ruel
  • Raphael Hardy
  • Timo Asikainen
Academy of Finland CRAQ Universite de Montreal SCOSTEP CITA