Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

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International Session (Oral)

Symbol A (Atmospheric, Ocean, and Environmental Sciences) » A-CG Complex & General

[A-CG05_30AM1] Continental-Oceanic Mutual Interaction: Global-scale Material Circulation through River Runoff

Wed. Apr 30, 2014 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM 211 (2F)

Convener:*Yosuke Yamashiki(Global Water Resources Assessment Laboratory - Yamashiki Lab. Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability Kyoto University), Swadhin Behera(Climate Variation Predictability and Applicability Research Program Research Institute for Global Change/JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Yokohama 236-0001), Yukio Masumoto(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Yasumasa Miyazawa(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Toshio Yamagata(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Kaoru Takara(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Chair:Yukio Masumoto(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Swadhin Behera(Climate Variation Predictability and Applicability Research Program Research Institute for Global Change/JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Yokohama 236-0001), Toshio Yamagata(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

★ [ACG05-01] Introduction of the SCOSTEP's VarSITI program - Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact

*Kazuo SHIOKAWA1, Katya GEORGIEVA2 (1.Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, 2.Space Research and Technologies Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Keywords:VarSITI, solar activity, climate change, atmosphere, magnetosphere and ionosphere, heliosphere

The Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science (ICSU) to run international interdisciplinary scientific programs and promotes solar-terrestrial physics research. The last solar minimum in 2008-2009 and the current solar maximum of sunspot cycle 24 show much lower activities compared with the previous two solar cycles 22 and 23. The scientists in the solar-terrestrial physics are watching very low solar activities and their consequences on Earth, which have never been observed since modern scientific measurements become available. The SCOSTEP program "Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI)" (2014-2018) will focus on this particular low solar activity and their consequences on Earth, for various times scales from the order of thousands years to milliseconds, and for various locations and their connections from the solar interior to the Earth's atmosphere. In order to elucidate various sun-earth connections, we encourage communication between solar scientists (solar interior, sun, and the heliosphere) and geospace scientists (magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere). Campaign observations will be promoted for particular interval in collaboration with relevant satellite and ground-based missions as well as modeling efforts. Four scientific projects will be carried out in VarSITI as (1) Solar Evolution and Extrema (SEE), (2) International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST/Minimax24), (3) Specification and Prediction of the Coupled Inner-Magnetospheric Environment (SPeCIMEN), and (4) Role Of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere In Climate (ROSMIC). In this presentation we introduce the VarSITI program and its four projects to promote interdisciplinary studies among different fields.