The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) Bureau has established a committee to coordinate the design
of SCOSTEP’s Next Scientific Program (NSP), which will cover the period
from 2019 to 2022. This committee has prepared a document describing
the NSP, which is accessible at:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Akpx0yeihiGHoRrANb2ZkIa_f-Gm.
The central scientific topic of the NSP is the predictability of the
Sun-Earth system at various time scales.
The NSP committee invites feedback from the scientific community, in the
form of white papers, or short comments, or even verbally to one or more
of the committee members, which are listed with their email addresses in
the NSP document mentioned above. Please send your feedback until July
31, 2018!
To encourage an open and transparent discussion, all white papers will
be made publicly viewable at:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Akpx0yeihiGHoRtUB6m2wPKVk8cc
In addition, there will be public opportunities to provide input at
discussion sessions to be held at
- the Workshop “Solar Influences on the Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and
Atmosphere” in Primorsko (Bulgaria) on 4-8 June
- the SCOSTEP 14th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium in
Toronto (Canada) on 9-13 July
- the 42nd COSPAR General Assembly in Pasadena, California (USA) on
14-22 July
The NSP committee will use the feedback received to produce a second
draft and issue another call for feedback in autumn. The goal of the
committee is to have a final description of the NSP by the end of
February 2019.