Exploring Space Climate: Forecasting Solar Activity and Tracing Sunspot History

This year, we welcome back sessions on Space Climate! 

The session Space Climate (SWR5), led by Claudio Corti, will address a wide spectrum of topics related to the physics of space climate. Its central focus is the exploration of opportunities and challenges in understanding and forecasting long-term solar activity and its impacts on the heliosphere and Earth across different timescales. The conveners anticipate engaging discussions on the current state of knowledge concerning sunspot numbers, total and spectral irradiance, open heliospheric flux, radio fluxes, galactic cosmic rays, extreme solar energetic particles, coronal holes, high-speed solar wind streams, coronal mass ejections, geomagnetic activity, geomagnetically induced currents (GICs), magnetic storms, ionospheric parameters, polar vortices, and sudden stratospheric warmings.