PSTEP: project for solar–terrestrial environment prediction

Autor: Keisuke Hosokawa, Hiroyuki Shinagawa, S. Kurita, Akimasa Yoshikawa, Mamoru Ishii, Haruhisa Matsumoto, Shinsuke Imada, Hiroko Miyahara, Hideyuki Hotta, Shigeo Yoden, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Takashi Sakurai, Yoichiro Hanaoka, Yusuke Ebihara, Chihiro Tao, Seiji Yashiro, Naoto Nishizuka, Kazumasa Iwai, Kazuo Shiokawa, Kohei Yoshida, Hideharu Akiyoshi, Takefumi Mitani, Hidekatsu Jin, Ayumi Asai, Hisashi Hayakawa, Satoko Nakamura, Takeshi Takashima, Kanya Kusano, Shinichi Watari, Takashi Kikuchi, Yuto Katoh, Shin Toriumi, Kiyoshi Ichimoto, Ryuho Kataoka, Hiroyuki Nakata, Toshifumi Shimizu, Tada-nori Goto, Shinji Saito, Yuki Kubo, Aoi Nakamizo, Tatsuhiko Sato, Toshihiko Iyemori, Kyoko Watanabe, Tsutomu Nagatsuma, Daikou Shiota, Susumu Saito, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Satoru Ueno, Kornyanat Hozumi, Yasunobu Miyoshi, Yuichi Otsuka
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Earth, Planets and Space, Vol 73, Iss 1, Pp 1-29 (2021)
ISSN: 1880-5981
Popis: Although solar activity may significantly impact the global environment and socioeconomic systems, the mechanisms for solar eruptions and the subsequent processes have not yet been fully understood. Thus, modern society supported by advanced information systems is at risk from severe space weather disturbances. Project for solar–terrestrial environment prediction (PSTEP) was launched to improve this situation through synergy between basic science research and operational forecast. The PSTEP is a nationwide research collaboration in Japan and was conducted from April 2015 to March 2020, supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. By this project, we sought to answer the fundamental questions concerning the solar–terrestrial environment and aimed to build a next-generation space weather forecast system to prepare for severe space weather disasters. The PSTEP consists of four research groups and proposal-based research units. It has made a significant progress in space weather research and operational forecasts, publishing over 500 refereed journal papers and organizing four international symposiums, various workshops and seminars, and summer school for graduate students at Rikubetsu in 2017. This paper is a summary report of the PSTEP and describes the major research achievements it produced.
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