The Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS (ISTP SB RAS) and the Center for Space Science and Applied Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (renamed the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSSC CAS) in 2010) 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 Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences signed on October 13, 1999, and the Agreement for joint studies on solar-terrestrial physics and its applications signed by CSSAR CAS and ISTP SB RAS on November 2, 2000 formed the basis for the establishment of JRC-SW. The co-directors of JRC-SW are Corr. Member of RAS A.P. Potekhin, Director of ISTP SB RAS, and Prof. Wu Ji, Director General of NSSC CAS. The first JRC-SW co-director from the Russian Academy of Sciences is Academician G.A. Zherebtsov, who won the 2012 Award for International Scientific Cooperation of CAS. On April 26, 2012, the two parties renewed the Charter of the Joint Research Center on Space Weather, extending it for the next five years.

The principal objective of JRC-SW is to organize and promote successful cooperation between NSSC CAS and ISTP SB RAS. Our Chinese partners are: NSSC CAS, National Astronomical Observatories CAS, Institute of Geology and Geophysics CAS, Peking University, and Yunnan Astronomical Observatory CAS.

[edit] Research areas

1. Solar activities related to solar disturbances;
2. Propagation of solar disturbances through the solar corona and interplanetary space;
3. Dynamic processes at different space and time scales, which are associated with geospace disturbances;
4. Propagation of disturbances from high to middle and low latitudes of Earth’s ionosphere and atmosphere;
5. Diagnostics of geospace, and forecasting technology;
6. Feedbacks and coupling between geospace and Earth’s atmosphere;
7. Global space weather system and its response to external impacts.

[edit] The particular research areas are defined here under as follows:

1. Solar activities related to solar disturbances.
2. Propagation of solar disturbances through the solar corona and interplanetary space.
3. Investigation of dynamic processes at different spatial and temporal scales, which are associated with geospace disturbances.
4. Investigation into the propagation of disturbances from high to middle and low latitudes of the Earth's ionosphere and atmosphere.
5. Diagnostics of the geospace, and forecasting technology.

[edit] Tasks

• Assessment of the scientific and application significance of joint research projects, and promotion of their implementation;
• Realization of exchange visits of scientists in order to implement joint research projects;
• Organization of joint conferences and workshops on relevant research topics.

[edit] Results

Biennial workshops are organized alternately in Russia and China. During these workshops, the main project executors present the reports on their scientific results. The two parties have held 13 workshops on space weather so far:

• The 1st Russian-Chinese Workshop on solar-terrestrial physics and its applications (space weather), Irkutsk, 14-19 December 2000;
• The 2nd Chinese-Russian Workshop on Space Weather, Beijing, 14-15 September 2001;
• The 3rd Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Irkutsk, 19-21 June 2002;
• Session of the 4th Chinese-Russian Workshop on Space Weather was held as a special Section of the 10-th Conference on Space Physics of the Chinese Society of Space Research, Shanghai, 18-19 October 2003;
• The 5th Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Irkutsk, 14-17 October 2004;
• The 6th Chinese-Russian Workshop on Space Weather, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, 12-16 October 2005;
• The 7th Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Irkutsk, 11-17 September 2006;
• The 8th Chinese-Russian Workshop on Space Weather, Beijing, 23-25 September 2007;
• The 9th Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Irkutsk, 22-27 June 2009;
• The 10th Chinese-Russian Workshop on Space Weather, Beijing, 31 October-2 November 2010;
• The 11th Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Irkutsk, 3-8 September 2012;
• The 12th Chinese-Russian Workshop on Space Weather, Zhengxiangbaiqi, 25-29 August 2014;
• The 13th Russian-Chinese Workshop on Space Weather, Yakutsk, 15-19 August 2016.

Russian and Chinese colleagues have obtained important results on the investigation of physical processes taking place in near-Earth space. Together we have implemented more than 40 scientific projects, wrote over 200 scientific papers and published 2 collective monographs. In 2016, we joined the observational campaigns of the International Space Weather Meridian Circle Program, aimed at investigating near-Earth space.

[edit] Documents

• Charter
• Agreement for Joint Research