Wed. Apr 30, 2014 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM 312 (3F)

Convener:*Mamoru Yamamoto(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University), Yasunobu Ogawa(National Institute of Polar Research), Satonori Nozawa(Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory), Hiroyuki Hashiguchi(Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University), Chair:Roland Tsunoda(Center for Geospace Studies SRI International)

The Earth accepts huge input of energy and material from the Sun. The Earth's environment is maintained by the balance between their inputs and outputs. It is important to study energy and material transport of the Earth. This is an international session that discusses studies of the coupling processes in the Sun-Earth system based on the projects of large radars and large-area observation network. The facilities and networks included are the Equatorial MU Radar (EMU) in Indonesia to study the whole equatorial atmosphere, the EISCAT_3D radar system to study detailed structures and elementary processes of the magnetosphere-ionosphere in the polar region, and global observation networks of magnetometers and radio and optical instruments to study the coupling processes with the global scale. We will show outline of the project and discuss sciences by soliciting variety papers. This session is open to the world, and we strongly encourage submission of papers related to other facilities and projects, i.e., atmospheric or incoherent-scatter radars, observation networks, satellites, and simulation or theoretical studies, etc.