Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) is an international multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed gold open access journal that publishes papers on all aspects of space weather and space climate in the solar system and beyond. JSWSC welcomes high-quality manuscripts from a broad range of scientific and technical fields of interest to the space weather and space climate communities.

JSWSC publishes research articles, technical articles, scientific reviews, papers on education and public outreach, historical events and observations, strategic and programmatic articles, and project reports.

JSWSC is currently seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to succeed one of its two current Editors-in-Chief (EiCs), please read more here.

Topical Issue - Observing, modelling and forecasting TIDs and mitigating their impact on technology

Open Access

Research Article

Climatology of large-scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances above Europe during the 2014–2023 period

Antoni Segarra, David Altadill, Víctor de Paula and Víctor Navas-Portella

J. Space Weather Space Clim., 15 (2025) 28

Published online: 08 July 2025
Open Access

Technical Article

The high-energy proton instrument (HEPI), a compact Cherenkov radiation space weather monitor

Joseph O’Neill, Fan Lei, Keith Ryden, Paul Morris, Ben Clewer, Fraser Baird, Paul Sellin, Clive Dyer, Melanie Heil, Piers Jiggens and Giovanni Santin

J. Space Weather Space Clim., 15 (2025) 27

Published online: 08 July 2025
Topical Issue - Observing, modelling and forecasting TIDs and mitigating their impact on technology

Open Access

Technical Article

An explainable Machine Learning model for Large-Scale Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances forecasting

Vincenzo Ventriglia, Marco Guerra, Claudio Cesaroni, Luca Spogli, David Altadill, Antoni Segarra, Ivan Galkin, Veronika Barta, Tobias G.W. Verhulst, Víctor de Paula et al. (3 more)

J. Space Weather Space Clim., 15 (2025) 25

Published online: 03 July 2025
Topical Issue - Swarm 10-Year Anniversary

Open Access

Technical Article

A climatological model of the equatorial electrojet based on Swarm satellite magnetic intensity observations

Nils Olsen, Chiara de Geeter, Patrick Alken and Enkelejda Qamili

J. Space Weather Space Clim., 15 (2025) 26

Published online: 30 June 2025
Open Access

Research Article

On the role of source surface height and magnetograms in solar wind forecast accuracy

Sandeep Kumar, Nandita Srivastava, Dana-Camelia Talpeanu, Marilena Mierla, Elke D’Huys and Marie Dominique

J. Space Weather Space Clim., 15 (2025) 24

Published online: 30 June 2025
Open Access

Research Article

Assimilation of the total electron content obtained from GNSS to a model of the ionosphere using a hierarchical Bayesian network

Jun Tang, Jiacheng Hu, Wei Zhang, Cihang Fan and Qiangbo Zhou

J. Space Weather Space Clim., 15 (2025) 23

Published online: 04 June 2025

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231	Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars and Resulting Influences on their Environments Open Access Topical Review Where does Earth’s atmosphere get its energy? Andrew C. Kren, Peter Pilewskie and Odele Coddington J. Space Weather Space Clim., 7 (2017) A10 Published online: 20 March 2017
204	Open Access Research Article The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations Mathew J. Owens, Mike Lockwood, Ed Hawkins, Ilya Usoskin, Gareth S. Jones, Luke Barnard, Andrew Schurer and John Fasullo J. Space Weather Space Clim., 7 (2017) A33 Published online: 04 December 2017
196	Developing New Space Weather Tools: Transitioning fundamental science to operational prediction systems Open Access Research Article An operational solar wind prediction system transitioning fundamental science to operations Jingjing Wang, Xianzhi Ao, Yuming Wang, Chuanbing Wang, Yanxia Cai, Bingxian Luo, Siqing Liu, Chenglong Shen, Bin Zhuang, Xianghui Xue and Jiancun Gong J. Space Weather Space Clim., 8 (2018) A39 Published online: 24 August 2018
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167	Open Access Research Article On the role of source surface height and magnetograms in solar wind forecast accuracy Sandeep Kumar, Nandita Srivastava, Dana-Camelia Talpeanu, Marilena Mierla, Elke D’Huys and Marie Dominique J. Space Weather Space Clim., 15 (2025) 24 Published online: 30 June 2025

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69	Topical Issue - 10 years of JSWSC Open Access Agora – Project report What sustained multi-disciplinary research can achieve: The space weather modeling framework Tamas I. Gombosi, Yuxi Chen, Alex Glocer, Zhenguang Huang, Xianzhe Jia, Michael W. Liemohn, Ward B. Manchester, Tuija Pulkkinen, Nishtha Sachdeva, Qusai Al Shidi et al. (8 more) J. Space Weather Space Clim., 11 (2021) 42 Published online: 13 August 2021
51	Topical Issue - Space climate: The past and future of solar activity Open Access Scientific Review Geomagnetic solar flare effects: a review Juan José Curto J. Space Weather Space Clim., 10 (2020) 27 Published online: 06 July 2020
50	Open Access Research Article Semi-annual, annual and Universal Time variations in the magnetosphere and in geomagnetic activity: 1. Geomagnetic data Mike Lockwood, Mathew J. Owens, Luke A. Barnard, Carl Haines, Chris J. Scott, Kathryn A. McWilliams and John C. Coxon J. Space Weather Space Clim., 10 (2020) 23 Published online: 10 June 2020
49	Topical Issue - Space Weather research in the Digital Age and across the full data lifecycle Open Access Agora – Project report The flare likelihood and region eruption forecasting (FLARECAST) project: flare forecasting in the big data & machine learning era Manolis K. Georgoulis, D. Shaun Bloomfield, Michele Piana, Anna Maria Massone, Marco Soldati, Peter T. Gallagher, Etienne Pariat, Nicole Vilmer, Eric Buchlin, Frederic Baudin et al. (18 more) J. Space Weather Space Clim., 11 (2021) 39 Published online: 22 July 2021

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882	Open Access On extreme geomagnetic storms Consuelo Cid, Judith Palacios, Elena Saiz, Antonio Guerrero and Yolanda Cerrato J. Space Weather Space Clim., 4 (2014) A28 Published online: 09 October 2014
881	Space Weather and Challenges for Modern Society Open Access The 1859 space weather event revisited: limits of extreme activity Edward W. Cliver and William F. Dietrich J. Space Weather Space Clim., 3 (2013) A31 Published online: 21 October 2013
710	Open Access Research Article The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations Mathew J. Owens, Mike Lockwood, Ed Hawkins, Ilya Usoskin, Gareth S. Jones, Luke Barnard, Andrew Schurer and John Fasullo J. Space Weather Space Clim., 7 (2017) A33 Published online: 04 December 2017
707	Open Access Agora – Strategic or programmatic article Current state and perspectives of Space Weather science in Italy Christina Plainaki, Marco Antonucci, Alessandro Bemporad, Francesco Berrilli, Bruna Bertucci, Marco Castronuovo, Paola De Michelis, Marco Giardino, Roberto Iuppa, Monica Laurenza et al. (10 more) J. Space Weather Space Clim., 10 (2020) 6 Published online: 28 February 2020

6420	Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars and Resulting Influences on their Environments Open Access Topical Review Where does Earth’s atmosphere get its energy? Andrew C. Kren, Peter Pilewskie and Odele Coddington J. Space Weather Space Clim., 7 (2017) A10 Published online: 20 March 2017
4378	Topical Issue - Swarm 10-Year Anniversary Open Access Research Article A regional space weather hazard variation index utilising Swarm FAST data Lauren Orr, Ciarán Beggan and William Brown J. Space Weather Space Clim., 14 (2024) 30 Published online: 15 November 2024
3158	Space Weather and Challenges for Modern Society Open Access The 1859 space weather event revisited: limits of extreme activity Edward W. Cliver and William F. Dietrich J. Space Weather Space Clim., 3 (2013) A31 Published online: 21 October 2013
2788	Open Access Research Article The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations Mathew J. Owens, Mike Lockwood, Ed Hawkins, Ilya Usoskin, Gareth S. Jones, Luke Barnard, Andrew Schurer and John Fasullo J. Space Weather Space Clim., 7 (2017) A33 Published online: 04 December 2017
2463	Open Access Research Article Auroral zone over the last 3000 years Ryuho Kataoka and Shin’ya Nakano J. Space Weather Space Clim., 11 (2021) 46 Published online: 20 August 2021

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Climatology of large-scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances above Europe during the 2014–2023 period

The high-energy proton instrument (HEPI), a compact Cherenkov radiation space weather monitor

An explainable Machine Learning model for Large-Scale Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances forecasting

A climatological model of the equatorial electrojet based on Swarm satellite magnetic intensity observations

On the role of source surface height and magnetograms in solar wind forecast accuracy

Assimilation of the total electron content obtained from GNSS to a model of the ionosphere using a hierarchical Bayesian network

Where does Earth’s atmosphere get its energy?

The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations

An operational solar wind prediction system transitioning fundamental science to operations

Halo coronal mass ejections during Solar Cycle 24: reconstruction of the global scenario and geoeffectiveness

On the role of source surface height and magnetograms in solar wind forecast accuracy

Where does Earth’s atmosphere get its energy?

On extreme geomagnetic storms

The 1859 space weather event revisited: limits of extreme activity

The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations

Current state and perspectives of Space Weather science in Italy

Where does Earth’s atmosphere get its energy?

A regional space weather hazard variation index utilising Swarm FAST data

The 1859 space weather event revisited: limits of extreme activity

The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations

Auroral zone over the last 3000 years

Neural network based model for global Total Electron Content forecasting

What sustained multi-disciplinary research can achieve: The space weather modeling framework

Geomagnetic solar flare effects: a review

Semi-annual, annual and Universal Time variations in the magnetosphere and in geomagnetic activity: 1. Geomagnetic data

The flare likelihood and region eruption forecasting (FLARECAST) project: flare forecasting in the big data & machine learning era

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2024 5-year Impact Factor*: 2.9

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