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Asia Osceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 11th Annual Meeting
Session ID: ST26;
Session Title: VarSITI - Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact

July 30-31, 2014, Sapporo, Japan

Report
Kazuo Shiokawa

The VarSITI session (ST26) was held at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2014 conference in Sapporo, Japan on July 30-31, 2014. Twenty-six oral and seventeen poster presentations were made in this session, forming one of the longest sessions in the AOGS 2014 Meeting. This session gave a forum to discuss on-going and planned scien- tific projects related to VarSITI, in order to make coordination of various projects between the sun and the earth. The presentations covered the field of ground and satellite observations, theory, modeling, and applications for space weather forecast, as well as capacity building. The project names discussed in this session were, for example, Hinode, Solar-C, solar neutron monitors, ERG, Geotail, Akebono, Sounding Rockets, EAR, MAGDAS, GMDN, CHAIN, NICT Space Weather, SuperDARN, OMTI, AVON, GPS receivers, Antarctic lidar, GAIA, WDS, and IUGONET.