Deadline extended to 31 January 2015

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC) plans a topical issue on "Statistical Challenges in Solar Information Processing", to appear in 2015. This interdisciplinary issue is an outcome of the 7^th Solar Information Processing workshop which brought together solar and space scientists, statisticians, and data processing experts who addressed the multiple data analysis challenges of solar and heliospheric missions. This Topical Issue will focus on how statistical inference and information processing can help addressing research problems in solar and heliospheric science, and provide methodologies to solve them.

Authors of oral and poster presentations given at the workshop are hereby encouraged to submit manuscripts. However, this Topical Issue is open to all contributors, it is not limited to workshop participants.

We are presently investigating the possibility to collect in a textbook all articles that are submitted and accepted on time, as it was done for past editions of Topical Issues related to Solar Information Processing workshops.

This Topical Issue will address, among others:

• Optimal combination of in situ and imaging data
• Tracking of small-scale magnetic features
• Prediction of solar eruptions and solar disturbances
• Characterisation of the solar wind turbulence
• Methodological issues such as Bayesian inference
• Challenges in present and future instrumentation

Important deadlines are:

• 22 SEPTEMBER 2014: declarations of intent, with preliminary title and list of authors should be sent by email to Thierry Dudok de Wit (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Extended to 31 JANUARY 2015: final submission, directly to SWSC, via its online submission tool. Note that the publication fees, presently 300€, will increase to 500€ for manuscripts submitted after 31^st December 2014.

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of SWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insight, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions. We also welcome articles on statistical methods with a potential to improve data analysis beyond current practices. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the SWSC web site. SWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

The guest editors for this Topical Issue are

• Craig DeForest (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Thierry Dudok de Wit (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Véronique Delouille (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Jack Ireland (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Derek Lamb (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Fraser Watson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Alex Young (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

For questions regarding this topical issue, please contact any of the guest editors. For questions concerning the submission process the Editorial Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) should be contacted.