A Plan for Solar-Terrestrial Research in Global Geosciences

日地研究正经历一个关键的 点 从个人的探索和研究阶段 太阳-地球系统的组成部分，我们现在正在进入 了解这些组件如何耦合到 以及太阳-地球系统如何作为一个整体运作。 最近的几项研究以及国家和国际方案 这些建议为战略任务规定了广泛的目标， 未来10-15年。 从这些研究中，多学科 和需要采取全球办法研究可疑交易报告的 太阳-地球系统清晰地显现出来。 也是如此 许多潜在的好处，知识，商业和安全， 科学和社会可以期望从这样一个综合的 study. 然而，有必要从这些广泛的 目标是一个适度的，定义明确的计划，代表了S/T 为NSF的全球地球科学倡议做出贡献。 为此，为了回应与NSF的讨论， PI，Roederer博士，将领导以下任务的努力， (I)研究科学研究的现状， S/T。 (II)确定与以下方面相关的新举措： 国家日地计划（NSTP）和国际S/T 程序. (III)制定一个科学回报最大化的计划 在适度的预算要求范围内。 (IV)提交“全球日地研究”计划 1987年11月，美国国家科学基金会将“地球科学”提交给国家科学基金会。 一个指导会议将在巴尔的摩举行， 1987年5月 1987年8月将举办一次讲习班， 1987年9月召开的执行计划会议。 最终的结果 将是一套明确的重大项目，强调地面- 基于相互作用过程的理论和数值研究 控制着太阳能中能量、动量和质量的转移 风/磁层/电离层/大气系统。 这套 这些项目将作为国家科学基金会全球战略研究报告的组成部分 地球科学计划，并将代表NSF的贡献， 国家科学技术计划和地球物理学科学委员会的日地能源计划。

Solar-Terrestrial research is passing through a critical point. From the phase of exploration and study of the individual components of the solar-terrestrial system, we are now entering the phase of understanding how these components are coupled to each other and how the sun-earth system works as a single whole. Several recent studies and national and international program proposals have formulated broad objectives for STR during the next 10-15 years. From these studies, the multidisciplinary nature of STR and the need for a global approach to the study of the solar-terrestrial system emerge quite clearly. So do the many potential benefits, intellectual, commercial and security, that science and society can expect from such an integrated study. However, there is a need to distill from these broad objectives a modest, well-defined program that represents the S/T contribution to the NSF's Global Geosciences Initiative. To this end, and in response to discussions with NSF, the PI, Dr. Roederer, will lead an effort with the following tasks,- (I) Examine the current status of scientific research in S/T. (II) Identify new initiatives that are relevant to the National Solar Terrestrial Program (NSTP) and international S/T programs. (III) Formulate a plan which maximizes the scientific return within modest budgetary requirements. (IV) Submit the plan "Solar Terrestrial Research in Global Geosciences" to NSF by November 1987. A steering meeting exists which will meet in Baltimore in May 1987. A workshop will be held in August 1987 and a final executive planning session in September 1987. The end result will be a well defined set of major projects emphasizing ground- based theoretical and numerical studies of interaction processes governing the transfer of energy, momentum and mass in the solar wind/magnetosphere/ionosphere/atmosphere system. This set of projects will be proposed as the STR component of the NSF Global Geosciences Program and would represent NSF's contribution to the NSTP and SCOSTEP's Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program (STEP).