| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Space Weather and Seismic Events: Plasma-Neutral-Wave-Field Coupling |
| Main Convener | Dr. Nanan Balan (Nagoya University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Qiugang Zong (Peking University, China) Dr. Katsumi Hattori (Chiba University, Japan) Dr. Amit Patra (National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, India) Dr. Gang Lu (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States) Dr. Veenadhari Bhaskar (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India) Dr. Yoshihiro Kakinami (Kochi University of Technology, Japan) Dr. Charles Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) |
| Session Description | The session provides a forum to bring together scientists working in different ST-PS-AS-SE disciplines to present and discuss their recent works on the coupling and dynamics that take place in the Sun and heliosphere and down to upper atmosphere during space weather events, and in the lithosphere and up to the ionosphere during seismic events. Solar events such as CMEs and ICMEs offer valuable information about the physical processes involved in coupling the Sun-Earth system through shocks, magnetic reconnection, wave-particle interaction, ring current intensification, geomagnetic storms, electric field intensification, and thermospheric and ionospheric storms. Seismic events including earthquakes and volcanoes provide the opportunity to understand upward coupling of the atmosphere-ionosphere system through possible magnetic/electric fields generated in the lithosphere and atmospheric waves generated in atmospheric boundary layer during the events. Important aspects of public interest include (1) space weather effects on satellite systems and astronauts, communication and navigation, power grids and climate, (2) seismic effects on life and resources, (3) earthquake precursors and detection, (4) severity of space weather and prediction, etc. Papers based on observations, theory and modeling of space weather and seismic events are solicited. |