Special issue “International CAWSES-II Symposium”

Abstract

This special issue gathered papers from the International CAWSES-II Symposium (November 18-22, 2013 at Nagoya University, Japan). Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System II (CAWSES-II) is an international scientific program sponsored by Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) that continued from 2009 to 2013. The program was established with the aim of significantly enhancing our understanding of the space environment and its impacts on life and society. The International CAWSES-II Symposium was successful with 388 presentations; and from that, 38 papers were published in this special issue. In this preface, we briefly discuss the contents of the special issue as well as the CAWSES-II review papers published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (PEPS) in 2014-2015.

A review of the SCOSTEP’s 5-year scientific program VarSITI—Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact

“…A summarizing CAWSES-II symposium was held in Nagoya in 2013, and selected papers from the symposium were gathered in the special issue of Earth Planets and Space at https://www.springeropen.com/collections/ ICS (overview: Yamamoto et al 2016). Review papers of the four task groups and overall CAWAES-II (overview: Tsuda et al 2015) were published in the special issue of Progress in Earth and Planetary Science which is freely available online at https://www.springeropen.com/ collections/cawses2reviewcollection.…”