STEP Symposium/5th COSPAR Colloquim

日地能源计划(STEP)是一个国际计划，旨在促进对通过日地环境进行的能量和质量转移的了解。STEP涉及地面、飞机、气球、火箭和卫星实验；理论和模拟研究；以及专用数据和信息系统。该计划将利用航天器任务和相关计划取得的成果，如NSF的GEM、CEDAR和MAX91，NOAA/SEL的研究和监测活动，以及由海军研究办公室(ONR)和其他日地研究的主要赞助商支持的各种研究活动。STEP的框架由优先领域组成，每个领域的目标都是了解控制日地系统特定区域之间能量和质量转移的过程。STEP中的科学研究被组织成由参与国科学界提出的有限数量的明确合作项目。为确定、规划和实施研究协调，为每个优先领域设立了工作组。STEP是一项主要的国际协调工作，完全包括各种研究模式，在1990年的‘S’的前半期是活跃的。这笔赠款为1992年8月24-27日在约翰霍普金斯大学应用物理实验室举行的关于STEP设施和理论运动的初步结果的STEP研讨会提供了部分支持。预计NASA、NSF、NOAA和ONR将为本次研讨会提供更多支持。

The Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program (STEP) is an international program to advance the understanding of the transfer of energy and mass through the solar-terrestrial environment. STEP involves ground-based, aircraft, balloon, rocket and satellite experiments; theory and simulation studies; and dedicated data and information systems. The program will take advantage of results obtained by spacecraft missions and related programs such as NSF's GEM, CEDAR, and MAX91, research and monitoring activities of NOAA/SEL, and various research activites supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and other key sponsors of solar-terrestrial research. The framework of STEP consists of Priority Areas, each one with a goal of understanding the processes controlling energy and mass transfer between specific regions of the solar-terrestrial system. The scientific research in STEP is organized into a limited number of well- defined cooperative projects proposed by the scientific communities of the participating countries. To define, plan and implement the research coordination, Working Groups for each Priority Area have been established. STEP is the key international coordination effort, fully inclusive of various research modes, active during the first half of the 1990's. This grant provides partial support of the STEP Symposium on initial results from STEP facilities and theory campaigns to be held August 24-27, 1992, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Additional support for this symposium is anticipated from NASA, NSF, NOAA, and ONR.