Topical Issue " Observing, modelling and forecasting TIDs and mitigating their impact on technology", deadline 1st June 2024

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) opens a Topical Issue " Observing, modelling and forecasting TIDs and mitigating their impact on technology", deadline 1st June 2024.

Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) are plasma density fluctuations that propagate as waves through the ionosphere at a wide range of velocities and frequencies. They are the ionospheric manifestation of internal atmospheric gravity waves (AGW) in the neutral atmosphere which play an important role in the exchange of momentum and energy between various regions of the upper atmosphere. TIDs are associated with auroral and geomagnetic activity and with lower-atmosphere phenomena of non-space origin (e.g., severe tropospheric convection or passages of cold fronts, seismicity, volcanic activity, and artificially triggered events such as explosions). The exact physical mechanisms of TID formation, the trigger mechanisms, the basic properties and parameters of TIDs and their propagation direction, the dissipation of their energy over travel distance and the influence of background ionospheric conditions on their propagation are not fully understood. Also, the characterisation, modelling and prediction of TIDs still need substantial improvement. We invite submissions of manuscripts which address TID identification and tracking, TID nowcasting and forecasting, as well as feeding the obtained results into ionospheric weather services. Manuscripts on methods and technologies capable of mitigating adverse effects of TIDs on the performance of critical space and ground-based infrastructure are also welcome.

Manuscripts must be submitted via the JSWSC online submission tool. Guidelines for submission of papers are found on the JSWSC website under the tab "Instruction for Authors".

Deadline: 1st June 2024

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of JSWSC. 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. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the JSWSC website. JSWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):

• Anna Belehaki (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), National Observatory of Athens, Greece.
• Iurii Cherniak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA.

Topical Editors (TE):

• Claudia Borries (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany.
• Dalia Buresova (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Czech Republic.
• Claudio Cesaroni (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy.
• John Bosco Habarulema (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), South African National Space Agency, South Africa.

For questions regarding this Topical Issue, please, contact the T-EiC. For questions concerning the submission process, please contact the Editorial Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).

Topical Issue «Solar Sources of Space Weather», deadline 30 September 2023

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) opens a Topical Issue «Solar Sources of Space Weather», deadline 30 September 2023.

The Sun and its atmosphere are shaping the heliosphere, including the near-Earth space environment, and driving our space weather. Flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), their associated shock waves, and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are the main sources of major space weather disturbances at Earth and the other planets. The strongest events tend to originate from large, magnetically complex active regions, but might also result from CMEs related to large, quiet-Sun filament eruptions. In addition, streamer-blowout stealth CMEs and high-speed streams (HSSs) emanating from coronal holes can unleash moderate storms.

We invite contributions on studies that focus on the build-up, origin, triggering, and early dynamics of solar eruptive events, as well as on space weather effects driven by non-eruptive events, such as HSSs that provide better characterization, diagnostics and deeper physical understanding of the solar sources of space weather at Earth and anywhere in the heliosphere. The scope of this topical issue covers both observational and modelling approaches, as well as new techniques and studies on the conditions for moderate to extreme events, which are key to improve space weather predictions.

This Topical Issue arises from Session SWR1 entitled “Solar Sources of Space Weather” at the 18th European Space Weather Week (ESWW2022) held in October 2022. However, it is not limited to papers presented during this session or the meeting and is open for all submissions within the scope.

Manuscripts must be submitted via the JSWSC online submission tool. Guidelines for submission of papers are found on the JSWSC web site under the tab "Instruction for Authors".

Deadline: 30 September 2023.

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of JSWSC. 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. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the JSWSC website. JSWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):

• Judith de Patoul (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Solar–Terrestrial Centre of Excellence, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

• Hebe Cremades (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Grupo de Estudios en Heliofísica de Mendoza, CONICET, Universidad de Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina

• Yana Maneva (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Solar–Terrestrial Centre of Excellence, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

• Erika Palmerio (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

• Li Feng (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

• Tshimangadzo Merline Matamba (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa

For questions regarding this Topical Issue, please, contact the T-EiC. For questions concerning the submission process, please contact the Editorial Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).