Space Weather

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few years, the term space weather has increasingly been used to describe phenomena in the near-earth space environment that impact on telecommunications, transportation, electric power, satellite navigation, spacecraft design and operations, and other technologies on Earth. This Special Issue welcomes observational space weather studies related to the magnetosphere and the ionosphere using Van Allen Probe, THEMIS, MMS (NASA's missions), Swarm (ESA's mission), Arase (Japanese/Taiwan mission), and CSES (Chinese mission). In particular, we encourage integrated data analyses of satellites and ground-based network observations to study energetic particles in the geo-space, magnetic storms/substorms, and wave–particle interactions, such as ultra-low-frequency (ULF) and electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) wave observations. Moreover, space weather forecasting tools, for example, the GPS/GNSS radio occultation technique, performing atmospheric measurements using Metop, COSMIC, and other satellites, are also of interest to this Special Issue. Results from related observations and simulation/modeling studies on magnetospheric research, ionospheric irregularities, and wave propagation from the troposphere are appreciated. Case studies, reviews, and other research studies that are relevant to space weather topics are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Essam Ghamry
Dr. Nurul Shazana Binti Abdul Hamid
Dr. Zheng Li
Guest Editors

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