| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Solar Eruptive Phenomena and Their Consequences in the Current Cycle 24 |
| Main Convener | Dr. Teimuraz Zaqarashvili (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Abhishek Srivastava (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, India) Prof. Stefaan Poedts (University of Leuven, Belgium) Dr. Yihua Yan (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) |
| Session Description | The Sun and catastrophic processes in the solar atmosphere control the dynamics of interplanetary space and atmospheres of solar system planets. Solar flares, Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and the solar wind have tremendous influence on the development of our civilization. Therefore, the solar atmospheric study is crucial for understanding of space weather predictions. Recent space and ground based observations significantly improved our knowledge on the processes, which lead to instabilities and consequent energy build-up and releases processes in the solar atmosphere. These solar eruptive phenomena also have important effects in the interplanetary space forming space weather. The session will summarize the recent developments in the study of the solar atmosphere: emergence of new magnetic fluxes, instabilities leading to solar flares and CMEs, initiation and propagation of CMEs in interplanetary space, and will cover the phenomena associated with the current unique solar cycle 24. The session will also emphasize the latest developments on the study of small-scale solar transients to reveal the energy transfer in the solar atmosphere at short spatial and temporal scales. Special attention will be paid to the discussion of new high resolution observations from Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO), Hinode, STEREO, as well as modern ground based observations. The session will also discuss the possibility of development of Solar Weather (i.e. the possibility to predict solar flares and CMEs) and Space Weather predictions. |