LWS TR&T Focus Teams:

2007

• Exploring the Magnetic Connection Between the Photosphere and Low Corona
• Solar Modulation of the Galactic Cosmic Rays and the Production of Cosmogenic Isotope Archives of Long-term Solar Activity, Used to Interpret Past Climate Changes.
• Toward Combined Models of Acceleration, Loss and Transport of Energetic Electrons and Protons in the Magnetosphere
• Determine the Sources of Daily Variability in the Thermosphere and Ionosphere
• Prediction of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field Vector Bz at L1
• Extreme Space Weather Events in the Solar System

• Predict Emergence of Solar Active Regions Before they are Visible
• Flares particle acceleration near the Sun and Contribution to large SEP events
• Effects of Ionospheric-Magnetospheric Plasma Redistribution on Storms
• Global Distribution, Sources and Effects of Large Electron Density Gradients
• Solar Origins of Irradiance Variations

2005

• Solar origins of plasma and magnetic flux in an ICME
• Topology and evolution of open magnetic field: photosphere to heliosphere
• Solar-energetic particles origin at the sun and inner heliosphere
• Formation and loss of new radiation belts in the slot region
• Response of thermospheric density and composition to solar and high latitude forcing
• Sensitivity of regional and global climate to solar forcing

Major Meetings with Focus Team Presentations