This is a temporary page for use by the Editorial Board of the Space Weather Journal and Space Weather Quarterly.  See Dan Baker and Barbara Giles for further information.

Now working to set two telecons in January

Please see the meeting poll to set potential times.  Please be generous with indicating available times as there are many time zones to accommodate.

Date: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:39 PM
Subject: Continuing discussions re Space Weather Journal/Quarterly

All,

We have had several good discussions regarding the path forward for the Space Weather Journal and the Space Weather Quarterly.  We hope you can join in a continuation of the conversation via two telecons during the month of January.

Please go to this time poll site to help us schedule optimal date(s)/time(s):  http://whenisgood.net/hinmgqj

By the way, results are displayed in a cumulative fashion, so blacking out many times may not be as helpful to your fellow editorial board members as you might have wished.

Poll results will be displayed at:  http://whenisgood.net/hinmgqj/results/rznpngw.

Entries received by noontime on Monday, December 30th will be in time to set the telecon.  

As before, we will continue to collect information and materials at the web site:  http://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/x/rgBf .  
Please help by adding/correcting information as you are able.

We look forward to continuing our conversations,
Louis Lanzerotti, Howard Singer, Dan Baker, and Barbara Giles


In other news:

Bob Robinson has contributed to a "history" page.  Please take a look and consider what history you may be able to add.  We'll want this material for our "Space Weather Journal First Solar Cycle" celebration.

 

MEETING/TELECON INFO

Next Telecons:

tbd, see email

TELECON/Meeting Archive:

AGU LuncheonMeeting Notes
Telecon #2 Dec 2Meeting Notes
Telecon #1 Nov 21Meeting Notes
Kickoff: Oct 23Meeting Notes
Thoughtful input from Wilkinson

Journal Strategy Assessment:

Space Weather Assessment / Strategic Plan
Supplement to Assessment / Plan

Additional Resources:

2013 Annual Report
Journal Access Statistics for Sept
Distribution list for the Quarterly
Baker opinion article on role of Societies
Original Proposal to AGU
AMS Space Weather Policy Statement



List of items this group is tracking:



Summary of points made in various emails/notes:

Background:

Space Weather Journal

Space Weather Quarterly


This is a technical journal with impact factor: 1.37.
2012 ISI Journal Citation Reports Rankings: 34/56 (Astronomy & Astrophysics); 43/76 (Geochemistry & Geophysics); 46/74 (Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences)
 


This is a technical magazine,
which was part of the AGU News Division?
now part of Publications division?

The two publications serve both the scientific and the applications-oriented, "above the atmosphere" (particularly space physics and aeronomy, and planetary), membership of the AGU as well as engineers and related professionals who may not join AGU because of its scientific focus.


Purpose and Scope:

Space Weather Journal:

Proposed update for the website:  Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications is an online publication devoted to the field of space weather and its impact on the design and operations of technical and engineered systems, including telecommunications, electric power, and satellite navigation. The journal's readers include engineers, system operators, systems designers, space weather forecasters, space weather modelers, as well as the research community.  

Since the era of development of the initial electrical telegraph systems in the early 19th century, the solar-terrestrial environment has influenced the design and operations of ever-increasing and sophisticated technical systems. James Van Allen reported in 1958 that the space environment around the Earth was not benign, but rather composed of high-intensity radiation. Engineers and scientists immediately recognized from this discovery that technical systems such as the communications satellites envisioned by Arthur Clark and John Pierce would require design and operations procedures (and therefore costs) that had not been otherwise anticipated. Space Weather addresses these and all engineered systems that are affected by solar-produced processes, from ground currents in electrical grids, communication cables, and pipelines, to GPS navigation to HF radio propagation.

Space Weather is a research resource that also provides news and information for space weather professionals. Space Weather publishes:

From the First Issue: The primary goal of Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications is to promote communication among scientists, engineers, technicians, science administrators, and space weather policy makers in a way that leads to continuous improvement in the nation's ability to mitigate space environment hazards to technical systems on the ground and in space.

Currently on the website: Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications is an online publication devoted to the emerging field of space weather and its impact on technical systems, including telecommunications, electric power, and satellite navigation.
Space Weather is a research resource that also provides news and information for space weather professionals. Space Weather publishes:

Space Weather is published by the American Geophysical Union and is co-sponsored by the International Space Environment Service (ISES). A digest of the online publication, Space Weather Quarterly (ISSN 1539-4964), is distributed four times a year free of charge.

Space Weather Quarterly:

From the first Issue:  Space Weather Quarterly is a digest of selected articles published online in Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications. 

A copy (or derivative) of the original press release (can't find the original).

Currently on the website: Space Weather Quarterly is a free, subscription-based print publication devoted to the impacts of space weather on technical systems, including telecommunications, electric power, radiation effects on space electronics, and satellite navigation. Space Weather Quarterly is a digest published by the American Geophysical Union that supports the journal, Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications, which addresses the applications of space research findings and results to practical problems that face numerous government and industry entities that design and operate technical systems that are known to be influenced and affected by processes in the solar-terrestrial environment. Space Weather also publishes models of various solar system processes, as well as more integrated models, that are addressed to predictions and forecasts of solar and geomagnetic disturbances that impact technical systems.

Related journals and publications:

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC) is an international multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open access journal which publishes papers on all aspects of space weather and space climate from a broad range of scientific and technical fields including solar physics, space plasma physics, aeronomy, planetology, radio science, geophysics, biology, medicine, astronautics, aeronautics, electrical engineering, meteorology, climatology, mathematics, economy, informatics.  An online, open access electronic journal published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis Cedex, France.  Five paper and an editorial were published in 2011; 22 papers were published in 2012; and 30 papers and an editorial have been published thus far in 2013.

One person suggested that if the Space Weather Journal was no longer available or combined so as to diffuse its identity, then JSWSC would become their journal of choice for operational space weather articles.