CONTACT INFORMATION

        School and Symposium email address:        spaceclimate@oulu.fi

        School and Symposium fax:           +358-8-5531287   (Attention: Kalevi Mursula)

        Conference venue: Hotel Riekonlinna, Saariselkä

        Registeration starts on Sunday 15th March 2 pm. at the hotel lobby

SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE OF SPACE CLIMATE SYMPOSIUM 3 (SCS-3):

The Symposium aims to cover a wide range of topics under the overall concept of Space Climate, i.e., the long-term change in the Sun, and its effects in the heliosphere and upon the Earth, including the atmosphere and climate. The topics of the Symposium include, e.g.,

• What can we learn about the long-term evolution of the Sun from other stars
  
• How do different aspects of solar activity (sunspots, irradiance, global magnetic field, solar energetic particles etc..) evolve in time?
  
• What do we know of long-term solar change from different proxies like cosmic rays, cosmogenic isotopes, geomagnetic activity etc.?
  
• How can we understand long-term changes in the solar dynamo?
  
• Are there systematic asymmetries in spatial distributions of solar activity and what causes them?
  
• How do the solar wind and the heliospheric magnetic field vary on long time scales?
  
• How does long-term solar activity modify the near-Earth space environment (magnetosphere, ionosphere) and geomagnetic storms?
  
• What do we know of the long-term change in geomagnetic and auroral activity?
  
• How does solar activity affect the terrestrial atmosphere and climate and what are its main mechanisms?
  
• Does the changing geomagnetic field affect terrestrial climate?
  
• Can solar variability affect human cultures?

SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE OF SPACE CLIMATE SCHOOL:

Space Climate School aims to introduce under-graduate and post-graduate students, young space researchers and all other interested to the basics of the key topics of Space Climate, including Earth's climate and Sun-climate relations, in a friendly, encouraging and inspiring atmosphere. Lecturers are internationally recognized and expertised scientists and teachers including, e.g., J. Beer, J. Haigh, A. Ferriz Mas, K. Mursula, E. Priest, E. Rodríguez Camino, W. Schmutz and I. Usoskin. A more detailed list of topics of each lecturer will be announced later.