The Russian-Chinese Joint Research Center on Space Weather
From ISTP SB RAS
The Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS (ISTP SB RAS ) and the Center for Space Science and Applied Research Chinese Academy of Sciences (CSSAR CAS) have established the Russian-Chinese Joint Research Center on Space Weather (JRC-SW) in December 2000. The Agreement on scientific cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch signed on October 13, 1999, and the Agreement for joint studies on solar-terrestrial physics and its applications signed by the CSSAR CAS and the ISTP SB RAS on November 2, 2000 serve as a basis for creating the JRC-SW.
[edit] The JRC-SW has two co-directors:
- the ISTP SB RAS director Academician G.A. Zherebtsov
- the CSSAR CAS Executive Director Prof. Ji Wu.
The principal objective of the JRC-SW is to organize and promote successful cooperation between CSSAR and ISTP.
[edit] The particular research areas are defined here under as follows:
- Solar activities related to solar disturbances.
- Propagation of solar disturbances through the solar corona and interplanetary space.
- Investigation of dynamic processes at different spatial and temporal scales, which are associated with geospace disturbances.
- Investigation into the propagation of disturbances from high to middle and low latitudes of the Earth's ionosphere and atmosphere.
- Diagnostics of the geospace, and forecasting technology.
During 5 years the scientific research work was carried out in the frame of 22 projects.
[edit] The objectives of the Center include:
- Evaluation of the scientific and application significance of joint research projects, and promotion of their implementation.
- The realization of exchanges of scientists related to the implementation of joint research projects.
- Organization of joint workshops and/or international workshops on relevant research topics.
[edit] Results
Annual workshops shall be organized in Russia and China by turns. In the frame of these workshops the main project executors submit a progress reports on obtained results of explorations.
- I Russian-Chinese Workshop on solar-terrestrial physics and its applications (space weather), Irkutsk, 14-19 December 2000. 16 scientific researchers from China took part in the workshop.
- II Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Beijing, 14-15 September 2001. 14 scientific researchers from ISTP SB RAS submitted reports on obtained results in the frame of joint projects.
- III Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Irkutsk, 19-21 June 2002. 32 scientific researchers from China took part in the workshop.
- Session of the IV Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather was held as special Section of 10th Conference on space physics of Chinese society of space research, 18 - 19 October 2003, Shanghai. 10 scientific researchers from ISTP SB RAS took part in the workshop.
- V Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Irkutsk, 14-17 October, 2004. The Institute received 21 scientific researchers from China.
The main scientific results of Joint Research Center on Space Weather work during five years are to be published as "Collected Works of China-Russia Joint Research on Space Weather" in 2005 in Beijing. The yet-unpublished research works within the frame of Joint Research Center projects, the results of which were presented at the Workshops will appear in a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Space Research.