The Thirteenth International Conference on Substorms (ICS13); Portsmouth, New Hampshire; September 24-29, 2017

第十三届国际次风暴会议（ICS13）；

• 批准号: 1700546
• 负责人: Joachim Raeder
• 金额: $ 2.94万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1700546&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Thirteenth; International; Conference; Substorms; ICS13

This is a travel support for students, and some senior researchers from less developed countries, along with a small contribution to supplies and publication costs for a five-day international conference on geomagnetic substorm research. This meeting entitled, "International Conference on Substorms (ICS13)" will be held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during 24-29 September 2017. The ICS13 will be the 13th in a series of carefully-designed substorm conferences that build on past advances while incorporating the latest new development. The venue is aimed at creating a forum to bring together a worldwide cadre of substorm researchers (and students) to focus their combined talents as well as theoretical and observational assets on accelerating progress towards a fundamental understanding of substorm physics. Such an environment, which intermixes a wide variety of viewpoints and diverse participants, provides a known incubator for new and innovative approaches that have the potential for enabling breakthroughs. This environment is also a valuable educational experience for students and an opportunity for international networking. The dates for the workshop were selected so that scientific team meetings for several operating scientific missions making relevant measurements might be organized to overlap with the conference. As many as 150 participants are anticipated with an estimated 35 participants requiring travel support - half of this participant support is requested from NSF, the other half from NASA. Following the event, a peer-reviewed conference proceedings will be published in an open-access, electronic-only periodical to enable broad dissemination of the results.Geomagnetic substorms, the topical focus of the conference, are explosive energy releases in geospace that have disruptive consequences in regions from near-Earth space, where weather, communications and national security satellites orbit; to the underlying upper atmosphere and ionosphere, where associated mega-ampere currents flow endangering vulnerable assets both in low-earth orbit and on the ground. There is even evidence to suggest that effects of this disruption may penetrate into the middle atmosphere through chemical-dynamical processes with potential, but so-far elusive, effects on ozone and climate variability. The triggers of these explosive energy releases are still not fully resolved and debates over the underlying mechanisms fuel one of the most long-lived controversies in geospace research. The complicated nature of the phenomenon and the associated difficult progress toward understanding are creating impediments to developing modeling and predictive capabilities, a situation that highlights the importance of international workshops for focusing global knowledge towards a resolution.

这是为学生和来自欠发达国家的一些高级研究人员提供的旅行支持，以及为为期五天的地磁亚暴研究国际会议提供的用品和出版费用的小额捐款。 此次会议题为“国际亚暴会议 (ICS13)”，将于 2017 年 9 月 24 日至 29 日在新罕布什尔州朴茨茅斯举行。ICS13 将是一系列精心设计的亚暴会议中的第 13 次会议，这些会议以过去的进展为基础，同时融入了最新的发展。 该场馆旨在创建一个论坛，将全球范围内的亚暴研究人员（和学生）聚集在一起，集中他们的综合才能以及理论和观测资产，加速对亚暴物理的基本理解。 这样的环境混合了各种各样的观点和不同的参与者，为有潜力实现突破的新的和创新的方法提供了一个众所周知的孵化器。 这种环境对于学生来说也是宝贵的教育经历和国际交流的机会。 研讨会日期的选择是为了与会议重叠，为进行相关测量的多个正在运行的科学任务组织科学小组会议。 预计将有多达 150 名参与者，其中估计有 35 名参与者需要旅行支持 - 其中一半的参与者支持来自 NSF，另一半来自 NASA。 活动结束后，经过同行评审的会议记录将在开放获取的电子期刊上发布，以便广泛传播研究结果。 地磁亚暴是会议的主题焦点，是地球空间中的爆炸性能量释放，对近地空间区域产生破坏性后果，天气、通信和国家安全卫星在这些区域运行；到底层的高层大气和电离层，相关的兆安电流流过，危及近地轨道和地面上的脆弱资产。 甚至有证据表明，这种破坏的影响可能通过化学动力学过程渗透到中层大气，对臭氧和气候变化产生潜在但迄今为止难以捉摸的影响。 这些爆炸性能量释放的触发因素仍未完全解决，关于潜在机制的争论加剧了地球空间研究中最持久的争议之一。 这一现象的复杂性以及与之相关的理解进展的困难给建模和预测能力的发展造成了障碍，这种情况凸显了国际研讨会对于将全球知识集中到解决问题上的重要性。