Space Weather and Space Climate of Our Solar System

Dear Colleague,

The solar wind is a continuous stream of high-energy charged particles emitted from the Sun that is highly variable in geometric form and intensity. Space weather and space climate research aims to understand the dynamic evolution of the solar wind across space and time and its impact on the Earth and other planetary systems. This requires expertise from fields including astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, magnetohydrodynamics, machine learning, and plasma physics. This issue welcomes theoretical, observational, and simulation/modeling studies related to space weather and space climate on all spatial and temporal scales, including solar–wind dynamics, coronal mass ejections, evolution of planetary magnetic fields, solar–terrestrial interactions, the open–closed magnetic field boundary and magnetic reconnection, magnetic storms and substorms, ionospheric disturbances and scintillation, electric current systems in the ionosphere, forecasting and mitigation of the effects of space weather disruption to technological systems both in space and at Earth’s surface, and constraints on space weather risk derived from both ground- and space-based observational systems. Multidisciplinary studies are particularly encouraged.

Dr. Fiona Simpson
Prof. Dr. Karsten Bahr
Dr. Giuseppe Consolini
Guest Editors

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