Space Weather Research Towards Applications in Europe

This book shows the state of the art in Europe on a very new discipline, Space Weather. This discipline lies at the edge between science and industry. This book reflects such a position, with theoretic papers and applicative papers as well. It is divided

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Jean Lilensten Editor

Space Weather Research towards Applications in Europe

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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

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-13

1-4020-5445-9 (HB) 1-4020-5446-7 (e-book) 978-1-4020-5445-7 (HB) 978-1-4020-5446-4 (e-book)

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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’