| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Space Weather Radio Science |
| Main Convener | Dr. Bernard Jackson (University of California, San Diego, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Munetoshi Tokumaru (Nagoya University, Japan) Dr. Hsiu-Shan Yu (University of California, San Diego, United States) |
| Session Description | Radio science used in space weather remote sensing is enhanced by solar and interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations that input to 3-D MHD modelling of the inner heliosphere. The use of new-generation radio telescope arrays such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia and the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) in northern and western Europe have joined in these efforts as pathfinder systems. At the same time, hardware developed for these instruments is being used in smaller projects focused on particular aspects of space weather and other new instruments are coming online. This is leading to the development of new methodologies and more in-depth study in space weather research than was possible before. Solar radio bursts can now be studied in unprecedented detail; observations designed to probe Faraday rotation in the solar wind are being trialled; new methods and advances are being made in ionospheric riometry and scintillation. In this special session we invite presentations making use of radio data from new and upgraded instrumentation covering the different aspects of space weather from the Sun through the solar wind to the planets, including the Earth's space environment and ionosphere. We particularly encourage presentations covering new methodologies, novel results which could not be obtained via previous instruments, and plans for new observations and new designs or concepts for future radio instruments and analyses. |