| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Sun and Heliosphere General Session Including Broadband Radio Physics, Helioseismology and Solar Diagnostic Techniques |
| Main Convener | Dr. Mario Bisi (Science & Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Alessandra Giunta (Science & Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom) Dr. Bernard Jackson (University of California, San Diego, United States) Dr. Richard Fallows (The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Netherlands) Dr. Jasmina Magdalenic Zhukov (Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium) |
| Session Description | This is the general session of talks within the ST Section covering topics on the Sun and/or Heliosphere that are not suited to any of the other sessions available. In addition, talks based on or around solar diagnostic techniques, the related atomic physics and spectroscopy, space climate, solar variability, or Helioseismology are also welcomed into this session including abstracts related to all aspects of solar irradiance as well as studies on climate change (local and/or global) that can be attributed to, at least in part, solar variability. The Sun varies in brightness over differing time scales. There is evidence that some climate change on Earth can be attributed to solar variability. Variations in solar radiation output beyond that of the solar cycle are typically not well known. This session solicits observational and theoretical contributions based around the ongoing development of radio techniques for heliophysics research (including space weather), new scientific methodologies that could be employed using such data sets, novel results which could not be obtained before the advent of the new-generation radio systems, and plans for new observations and new designs or concepts for future radio instrumentation. The scientific areas of solar, coronal, and heliosphere research, and novel applications to ionospheric research are all encouraged. |