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Journal of Geophysical Research
Special section dedicated to

Geospace multi-point observations
in Van Allen Probes and Arase era

The process of submission is open

In Van Allen Probes and Arase era, coordinated multi-point observations with satellites in space and ground-based observatories have been organized in order to improve our understanding of the physical mechanisms of dynamics of geospace environment. This special issue expands upon new findings from these coordinated observations of Van Allen Probes, Arase and ground-based networks as well as interplay among different missions. There have been several storm events during periods of coordinated observations of both Van Allen Probes and Arase satellites; May 2017, July 2017, September 2017, and August 2018, which will be campaign study events from the multi-satellite and ground based observations in this special issue. Moreover, multi-point observations to focus on wave-particle interactions, for example, ULF observations at different MLTs and whistler/EMIC wave observations at different magnetic latitudes have also been planned, which are also good subjects for this special issue. Results from related observations and modeling/simulation studies on the inner magnetosphere are also welcome.

We look forward to many articles for this special section.

JASTP special issue
dedicated to the

Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI)
Completion Symposium 2019

The process of submission is open

Look for the instructions below

On behalf of guest editors, I would like to invite you to submit papers to the Special Issue of Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI) Completion Symposium 2019 in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP). The symposium was held on June 10÷14, 2019 at Sofia, Bulgaria. Because this special issue is one of the summarizing activities of the 5-year VarSITI program (2014÷2018), we also welcome submission of papers from those who made presentation at the SCOSTEP's STP-14 conference (July 9÷13, 2018, Toronto, Canada), and also from scientists who did not join these two symposiums..

The VarSITI program (http://www.varsiti.org/) was the 5-year international program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee On Solar-TErrestrial Physics) in 2014-2018. VarSITI focused on the recent and expected future solar activity and its consequences for the Earth, for various time scales from the order of thousands years to milliseconds, and for various locations and their connections from the solar interior to the Earth’s atmosphere. Four Scientific Projects were carried out under the VarSITI program: (1) Solar Evolution and Extrema (SEE), (2) International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST/MiniMax24), (3) Specification and Prediction of the Coupled Inner-Magnetospheric Environment (SPeCIMEN), and (4) Role Of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere / thermosphere / ionosphere In Climate (ROSMIC). These four projects were carried out in collaboration with relevant satellite and ground-based missions as well as modeling efforts to facilitate the implementation of these projects. The special issue welcomes new and interdisciplinary scientific results related to this 5-year VarSITI program.

Looking forward to your contributions,

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
Topical Issue:
"Space climate: The past and future of solar activity"

Dear colleagues,

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) accepts submission of research manuscripts for a Topical Issue on "Space climate: The past and future of solar activity" to appear in 2020. This is an open call for papers discussing any aspect of Space Climate, i.e., the long-term change in the Sun and its effects in the heliosphere and the near-Earth space environment, including solar effects on the atmosphere and climate.

For more information, see this page

Please note that the deadline for submitting papers has been extended to March 31, 2020. No additional delay will ensue from this extension since each paper will be treated and published individually at the pace of its own refereeing process. Note that early submission may even avoid the rush around the deadline and lead to faster publication.

For submission, start with the following website: https://www.editorialmanager.com/jswsc/default.aspx

Sustainability - Open Access Journal special issue
Natural Disasters and Extreme Solar Energy

We would like to invite you to submit articles for the Special Issue "Natural Disasters and Extreme Solar Energy" (more) of the journal - (indexed by WoS-SSCI, IF2017: 2.685 and Scopus: Q1).

Papers should be submitted via MDPI system: https://susy.mdpi.com/ Guides for authors can be found on the web: (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions)

The submission deadline for this specific call for articles is on 31 December 2019

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Important! During submission process, please, select Special Issue: Natural Disasters and Extreme Solar Energy.

Special Issue Information. The atmosphere is a very sensitive medium to extraterrestrial forces, most importantly, solar electromagnetic radiation and energetic particle intrusion. This released intense solar activity can cause sudden disturbances in the Earth's atmosphere and further create ground telecommunication interferences, blackouts, transportation problems, water supply problems, potential health effects, as well as natural disasters, such as forest fires. These extreme events can cause billions of dollars of damage and impact individuals, families, communities, and societies. For this reason, it is of crucial importance to investigate the connections between this extreme activity, natural disasters, and further develop ways to prevent, prepare against, and respond to them. The aim of this Special Issue is to engage a wide community of scientists to defragment and expend current knowledge in this field.

We would like to invite you to submit review-papers, case studies, or research articles that formulate innovative approaches related to this field so that these results can be used by other scientists as well as engineers and other people employed in the industry. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

and other topics that connect risk, disasters, and sustainability.

JGR Atmosphere-Space Physics special issue:
Long term changes and trends in the middle and upper atmosphere

Please consider submitting your work to the JGR Atmosphere-Space Physics special issue: Long term changes and trends in the middle and upper atmosphere.

The section description is as follows::

All AGU journal content from 1997 to 24 months ago is freely available online. Your published paper will become fully open 24-months after publication.

We look forward to many articles for this special section,

Anales Geophysicae special issue:
Vertical coupling in the atmosphere–ionosphere system

Let me kindly remindyou that special issue entitled "Vertical coupling in the atmosphere–ionosphere system" has been accepted as part of the journal ANGEO. Authors are invited to submit their contributions by using the online registration form on the ANGEO website:
https://www.annales-geophysicae.net/about/aims_and_scope.html.

The deadline for submission is 15 Feb 2019.

The guest editors are C. Jacobi, P. Koucká Knížova, E. Yigit, C. Arras, K. Baumgarten, and W. Ward.

NOTE: During the registration process it is important that the correct special issue is chosen!!!

We look forward to many articles for this special issue,

Best regards, Petra Koucká Knížova

Special Section for

Initial results of the ERG(Arase) project and multi-point observations

We are very pleased to announce that the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) will be soon accepting paper submissions to the Special Section for Initial results of the ERG(Arase) project and multi-point observations.

Please use AGU GEMS system (https://grl-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) to submit your manuscript.

We look forward to many articles for this special section,

Special collection in the Space Weather journal
the strong-to-severe space weather of 4-10 September 2017

Dear VarSITI colleagues,

The editors of Space Weather are organizing a special collection to highlight the strong-to-severe space weather of 4-10 September 2017. This interval was one of the most flare-productive periods of now-waning solar cycle 24. Solar active regions (AR) 2673 and 2674 both matured to complex magnetic configurations as they transited the disk. AR2673 transformed from a simple sunspot on 2 September to a complex region with order-of-magnitude growth on 4 September, rapidly reaching beta-gamma-delta configuration. In subsequent days the region issued three X-class flares and multiple partial halo ejecta. Combined, the two active regions produced more than a dozen M-class flares. As a parting shot AR2673 produced: 1) an X-9 level flare; 2) an associated moderate solar energetic particle event; and 3) a ground level event, as it arrived at the solar west limb on 10 September. From 4÷16 September the radiation environment at geosynchronous orbit was at minor storm level and 100 MeV protons were episodically present in geostationary orbit during that time frame. The early arrival of the coronal mass ejection associated with the 6 September X-9 flare produced severe geomagnetic storming on 7 and 8 September. The full set of events was bracketed by high speed streams that produced their own minor-to-moderate geomagnetic storming.

This interval is covered by, perhaps, the best set of heliospheric and space weather instruments every to witness a significant event. We call for papers that address the heliospheric and geospace disturbances, and highlight how ground- and space-based instrumentation, combined with improved models allow us to understand the origin, dynamics and consequences of these storms. We are particularly interested in “effects and impacts” papers, as there have been a number of media reports that HF radio blackouts caused by the X-flares disrupted emergency communications vital to recovery efforts following Hurricane Irma. We also welcome papers that assess the importance of these impacts and any other practical impacts arising from the space weather events in early September 2017. Additionally, we encourage papers that address the direction, propagation and arrival time of the heliospheric structures (shock, sheath and/or core) that led to periods of forecast and/or observed strong southward Bz.

Anticipated decline for submission is 1 March 2018.

JASTP special issue
dedicated to the Second VarSITI General Symposium

Now it is open submission of the manuscripts to the special Issue on the 2nd VarSITI General Symposium in he Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) It's open special Issue and you may submitt the manuscript even if you didn't take part in the meeting.

The deadline will be in February 2018. As we are interesting in collaborative publications it's good opportunity for preparation and submission of the such publications. The instructions is below.

Special Section for

New understanding of the solar eclipse effects on geospace:
the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse

Manuscripts are solicited for the GRL-Special Section on the study of 21 August 2017 solar eclipse effects on geospace The deadline for submission is January 31, 2018. Title of the special section: New understanding of the solar eclipse effects on geospace: the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse

Please use AGU GEMS system (https://grl-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) to submit your manuscript. When preparing your manuscript, it is important to follow the regular GRL data and length requirements. See also GRL submission checklists and templates page for new and revised submissions.

Finally, please note that AGU and its editors are also willing to extend this collection to articles that may be appropriate for JGR-Space Physics [Read full aims and scope], and
Space Weather [Read full aims and scope].

We look forward to many articles for this special section,

J. Space Weather Space Climate
Topical Issue:
"Flares, CMEs and SEPs and their space weather impacts"

Dear colleagues,

Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their Interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs) remain topics of important research in the field of solar terrestrial relations. Flares can have an important impact (UV radiation, particles) on the Earth's atmosphere. Recent remote observations and modeling studies have shown that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can drive shock waves very low in the solar corona, which, in turn, may produce significant fluxes of solar energetic particles (SEPs). Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are the main drivers of large geomagnetic storms.

In this topical issue, we invite observational, theoretical, and modeling contributions that address the following topics:

• - particle acceleration at flares as well as the response of the lower ionosphere to a variety of external forcing during flares, such as energetic particles and solar UV and X-ray variability,
• - the coronal dynamics of CME and shocks in connection with the early production of SEPs
• - the magnetic connectivity and early-stage transport in the heliosphere of SEPs
• - the propagation of coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere, their interaction with Earth and/or with other planets,
• - the link between CMEs and ICMEs, the relation of coronal mass ejections with energetic particles.

This Topical Issue is seen as an outcome of the session on a similar topic organized at the 13th European Space Weather Week in Ostende but is open to any contributions on the subject.

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of SWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insight, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the SWSC web site. SWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

The Topical Editors-in-Chief are:
Nicole Vilmer, LESIA, Paris Observatory (Nicole.Vilmer[at]obspm.fr)
Olga Malandraki, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens (omaland[at]noa.gr)

Progress in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Special call:
"Ionospheric Plasma Bubble Seeding and Development"

Dear SCOSTEP/VarSITI colleagues,

We invite you to submit your research work on the subject of “Equatorial ionospheric Plasma Bubble (EPB) seeding and development” to Journal of “Progress in Earth and Planetary Science” (PEPS). This is an outcome of the workshop held at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan, during November 29 to December 02, 2016. The manuscripts selected after peer review processes will be published as a collection of papers attending to the “Special call for excellent papers on hot topics” (SPEPS) of PEPS. The paper submission is open and welcome for all scientists in the area of Space and Atmospheric sciences.

The article collection will cover the following topics:
(1) EPB seeding and development: review and new interpretations;
(2) EPB new observational techniques: optical, radio and in-situ measurements;
(3) EPB simulation models: current status of development and capability, and future scope; and
(4) EPB and space weather concerns, now and in the future.

Submission deadline: June 30, 2017

The detail of paper submission to PEPS attending to “Special call for excellent papers on hot topics (SPEPS), i. e., preparation of manuscript, submission process, publication costs etc., can be found at: http://progearthplanetsci.org/index.html wherein you can access the box of “SPEPS”.

Also you can access these information in the PEPS Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/peps.jpgu) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/PEPS_JpGU)

If you have any further questions, please contact: <peps_edit[at]jpgu.org>.

Special topics proponentes:
Dr. Hisao Takahashi (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil)
Dr. Mangalathayil Ali Abdu (Instituto nacional de pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil)
Dr. Yuichi Otsuka (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan)
Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan)

Associate Editors:
Dr. Hisao Takahashi (Instituto nacional de pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil),
Dr. Fabiano S. Rodrigues (University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), USA),
Dr. Tatsuhiro Yokoyama (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan).

JASTP special issue
"Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and Predictions" (ISROSES-III)

For more information please visit the site under : this link (too long to be shown)

We invite paper submission to a special issue in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) on "Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and Predictions". The aim of this special issue is to highlight present understanding of the complex, multi-scale, interactions in the Sun-Earth system (from deep within the Sun to the Earth’s atmosphere). The special issue is open to original papers addressing Sun-Earth System dynamics that have not been published or under review elsewhere.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select "SI: ISROSES III" when they enter manuscript information in the submission process. The submission deadline is 31-March-2017. All submissions are FREE of charge and will be peer reviewed according to the journal guidelines. Papers will be published online within three weeks of acceptance.

For more information please visit the site under : this link (too long to be shown)

Special Issue Guest Editors:
Vania Jordanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Joe Borovsky, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO
Mick Denton, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM

JASTP special issue

Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System:
Recent Progress

Let me kindly invite you to submit your recent results to the special issue „Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System: Recent Progress“. The proposed Special Issue will address both recent theoretical and empirical results concerning the coupling mechanisms through dynamics, composition and electrodynamics. Papers focusing on the modulation of waves from the lower to the upper atmosphere as well as from low- to high-latitudes, electrodynamic and compositional changes, plasma drifts, electric fields and plasma irregularities at different latitudinal regions of the globe due to the varying energy inputs are of particular interest. The manner in which the couplings take place due to varying geomagnetic activity, changing energy inputs from the Sun and from the lower atmosphere together with the downward control effects transferring from the strongly solar dependent structure to the lower atmospheric levels and upward propagating structures induced in the lower atmosphere by changing solar activity are welcome.

Papers dealing with experiments, observations, modeling and data analysis that describe the effects of atmospheric coupling processes within the atmosphere-ionosphere system are kindly invited.

Please, consider to contribute by submitting an article for the Special Issue of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

Papers should be submitted via EVISE system: https://www.evise.com/profile/#/ATP/login

Guides for authors can be found on the web:
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-atmospheric-and-solar-terrestrial-physics/1364-6826/guide-for-authors

As announced during the Symposium, a Special Issue (SI) of Elsevier’s Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) will be published with papers based on the presentations (invited, oral, and poster) given at the symposium.

Elsevier provides promotional access for all papers included in this SI, which means:

• the submission is free for the authors
• the papers will be free to download for everyone for 9 months after they have been published online
• as normal for all Elsevier publications, authors will be allowed to share a revised personal version of their paper to their institutional or personal website which will help the research to be widely available beyond the promotional access period.

The Elsevier Editorial System is now ready for article submission

Instructions for submission:

Looking forward to your contributions,

received on July 14, 2016

Manuscripts are solicited for the JGR-Space Special Section on the study of upper atmospheric disturbances and M-I-T coupling during the recent solar storms, in particular during the 2015 and 2014 St Patrick Days.

A QUICK NOTE FROM THE JGR-SPACE EDITOR: It is worth underlining that new science is essential for publication in JGR including special sections.

Geospace responses to solar and interplanetary disturbance induced geomagnetic storms via changes in electromagnetic fields, particle precipitation, plasma and neutral dynamics and energetics, are the fundamental components of space weather. Despite that major processes through which the coupled magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere and mesosphere (MITM) system responds to storms are generally known, a number of significant aspects of these responses remain challenging, including quantitative understanding of the processes, the feedback and nonlinear interaction effects within the MITM system, and the vast variability in the system responses themselves. Geomagnetic storms around 17-19 March in 2013 and 2015 (the St. Patrick’s Day intervals) provide a fresh opportunity to address these challenges while testing our current understanding of the storm-time MITM behavior with improved global observations and new modeling capability. In particular, comparative studies between these two storms are of great interest since they occurred at the same dates (season) but were of different intensities. Comparisons with other storms with similar upstream drivers are also valuable to fully understand the MITM system response to storms under different geophysical conditions.

Organizers: S. Zhang (MIT Haystack), Y. Zhang(JHU-APL), W. Wang (NCAR HAO),
O. Verkhoglyadova (JPL)

received on April 29, 2016
significantly renovated on September 21, 2016

The text posted on September 21, 2016

Upon the request from several of you, we have decided to extend the deadline by one month. The new deadline is now October 15, 2016.

Please be reminded that October 15, 2016 is a rather rigid deadline. A number of papers have been already submitted and are under review. To ensure the timely and simultaneous publication of all papers belonging to the Topical Issue, any paper submitted after this new deadline might not be considered as part of the Topical Issue.

To submit the manuscript, use Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/sola/default.aspx.

If you do not have an account already, you need to register in the Editorial Manager.

When you click on “Submit New Manuscript”, you will be prompted of “Choose Article Type”. Please make sure that you choose the option of “TI: Earth-affecting Solar Transients”.

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Further, if you use LaTex, please use the style files of Solar Physics instead of a different style. The style files can be found in: Journal site (Look for the link "Author tool (LaTeX)")

Best regards,
Guest Editors: Jie Zhang, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Nariaki Nitta, and Nandita Srivastava.

end of text posted on September 21, 2016