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Background: The last integrated strategy for solar
and space physics was released by the NRC in 1995.
Since that time, there have been dramatic scientific de-
velopments and a sign if icant evol ution i n relevant fed-
eral programs. In the space arena these developments
stem from the launches and successful operation of the
Wind, Geotail, SOHO, Polar, FAST, ACE, TRACE, IM-
AGE, and Cluster-ll missions. These missions have
helped revolutionize solar physics, provide a new level
of understanding of important processes in space plasma
physics, and create a new basis for characterizing and
predicting space weather. Over the same period, the
relevant federal agencies have taken steps to build on
the new level of scientific progress by embarking on
new efforts such as the National Space Weather Pro-
gram, the Relocatable Radar (formerly the Polar Cap
Observatory), and Living With a Star. Furthermore, the
NSF Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) program
has initiated its second and third campaigns, the inter-
national Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (Suner-
DARN) has established effective collaboration among a
large number of high frequency radar programs; and the
community-wide Solar, Heliospheric, and Interplanetary
Environment (SHINE) initiative has spawned a number
of important activities related to the National Space
Weather Program. As a consequence of all these devel-
opments, the preparation of a comprehensive scientific
assessment and strategy for the field of solar and space
physics that looks across the interests of all agencies,
both ground- and space-based, is especially timely.
Plan: The study will be organized in a manner simi-
lar to the decadal survey that is regularly conducted by
the astronomy and astrophysics community. The Com-
mittee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) will establish
a 14-person survey committee to carry out the study
with input from five panels, each of which will have
approximately 10 members. Most CSSP members will
serve either on the survey committee or the panels, with
additional membership drawn from the relevant research
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communities.
The study will generate consensus recommenda-
tions from the solar and space physics community re-
garding a systems approach to theoretical, ground-based
and space-based research that encompasses the flight
programs and focused campaigns of NASA, the ground-
based and basic research programs of NSF and the
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complementary operational programs at other agencies
such as NOAA, DOD, and DOE. During this study, the
community will survey solar and space physics and rec-
ommend priorities for the decade 2003-2013. Attention
will be given to effective implementation of proposed
and existing programs and to the human resource as-
pects of the field involving education, career opportuni-
ties, and public outreach. Promising areas for the devel-
opment of new technologies will be suggested. A minor
but important part of the study will be the review of
complementary i n itiatives of other nations i n order to
identify potential cooperative programs.
An important aspect of the study's consideration of
operational programs will be an assessment of how the
research programs of NASA and NSF can serve both to
provide the operational tools of agencies such as NOAA
and DOD and to provide training for future expert staff
for those agencies. The study will consider how the sci-
ence of solar and space physics can lead to new forecast
tools and products that have the potential of making the
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space weather program more operational, and it will
identify appropriate next steps to accomplish the transi-
tion from research to operations.
Three of the five panels will be organized around
interdisciplinary science themes:
· magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere i nterac-
tions,
· solar-wind magnetosphere interactions, and
· sol ar and hel iospheric physics.
Each of these panels will consider theory and com-
putation as well as ground-based and space-based re-
search. The first two panels will cover both terrestrial
and planetary objectives. The three science panels wi 11 (1 998~.
be complemented by two cross-d~sc~pl~nary panels:
· theory, computation, and data exploration and
· education and society.
The survey committee will be responsible for pre-
paring a summary report. The reports of the study panels
along with the summary report will be published by the
National Research Council. One important goal of these
reports is to address the scientific foundation and priori- 19971.
ties for the implementation of major NASA programs
THE SUN TO THE EARTH AND BEYOND: PANEL REPORTS
such as Living With a Star, Solar-Terrestrial Probes, Solar
Probe, and Interstellar Probe and major NSF facilities
such as the Relocatable Radar.
In conducting its work, the CSSP would draw on an
extensive history of prior studies performed by the Space
Studies Board, including
· Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millen-
nium (Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Report) and
Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium:
Pane/ Reports (2000~. (Survey and panel reports are joint
projects of the SSB and the NRC Board on Astronomy
and Astrophysics.)
· Readiness for the Upcoming Solar Maximum
· Ground-Based Solar Research: An Assessment
and Strategy for the Future (1998~.
· Scientific Assessment of NASA's SMEX and MIDEX
Space Physics Mission Selections (1 9971.
· An Assessment of the Solar and Space Physics
Aspects of NASA's Space Science Enterprise Strategic
Plan (1 997~.
· Space Weather: A Research Briefing (Web report,
· A Science Strategy for Space Physics (19951.
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