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Call for Abstracts

Note:  The abstract deadline was Nov. 15 and we are no longer accepting abstracts. 

The agenda for this interactive 3.5-day meeting consists of invited and contributed presentations in either oral or poster format. We have eight sessions and the titles and descriptions are below.  For an overview of the symposium, please visit the Science Program header.  

Please submit all abstracts by Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, to Vanessa George via email (Vanessa.George@lasp.colorado.edu).  You can send your abstract as text within an email or as an attachment (WORD preferred).  Please include title, authors, affiliations, and text (300 words max please).  Here is a link to the abstract form (WORD / PDF). 

Sessions include:

  1. The Sunset of SORCE:  The NASA Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) has had many accomplishments and discoveries during its 16-year long mission. Amongst SORCE key results are the improved climate records of the total solar irradiance (TSI) and solar spectral irradiance (SSI) with the measurements from its instruments: TIM, SIM, SOLSTICE, and XPS. As recommended from the 2017 NASA Earth Science mission senior review, SORCE is being passivated (turned off) in January 2020 with the successful completion of overlapping the SORCE and Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS) missions. This session will highlight SORCE’s achievements and lessons learned.
  2. Recent/Space-Era Solar Cycle Timescales:  This session, spanning the “spacecraft era,” is devoted to solar measurements and models covering the last few solar cycles. Abstracts relating to our current understanding of the quiet Sun are particularly welcome.
  3. Solar Influence on the Atmosphere and Climate:  This session is devoted to the measured or modeled response of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate to solar variability over the last few solar cycles.
  4. Solar Variability and Climate Trends on Secular Time Scales: This session will discuss variability in the Sun and trends in climate records on long timescales. What have we learned about the ranges of total and spectral solar irradiance variability? What are the trends in proxies of solar activity and paleoclimate records, such as tree rings and cosmogenic isotopes, on multi-decadal to millennial timescales? What are the potential secular trends in the Sun based on stars? What are the associated impacts on Earth’s climate that are estimated from these records?
  5. Observational Predictions:  What are expectations for the next solar cycle and what are climate-change scenarios for the upcoming decades? What future measurements are expected to improve knowledge of Sun-climate connections?
  6. A New Reference Spectrum for Remote Sensing:  Solar spectra are widely used by the modeling  and remote sensing communities as the solar input constraint.  Uncertainties associated with the solar spectrum measurements can have significant impacts on theoretical and experimental applications ranging from upper atmospheric photochemistry to the full system radiation budget. Various reference solar spectra will be discussed in this session, along with missing solar emission lines and measurement limitations in instrumentation.
  7. Looking Ahead — Future Observations of the Sun and Earth:  What is planned for the next generation of solar and terrestrial observations.  In this session, we will address new Sun and Earth observations, missions and implementation strategies for a next-generation observing system to meet the current and future challenges facing climate change studies.
  8. Climate of the Desert Southwest:  This session is an opportunity for scientists to present their research on the climate attributes and recent trends unique to the Southwestern U.S. and in particular, the Arizona Sonoran desert.  For example, changes in monsoon patterns, extreme events, and hydrology of the region are of particular interest.