Topical Discussion Meeting - Long-term datasets for space weather and space climate: what is available, what is coming next?

Thierry Dudok de Wit (Univ. Orléans); Luke Barnard (Univ. Reading); Ed Cliver (NSO); Alexei Pevtsov (NSO)
Tuesday 6/11, 14:00-15:15
MTC 01.03

To understand future space weather, one has to know the past... Major progress has been achieved in recent years in reconstructions of historical datasets that describe solar forcing and our space environment on timescales of decades, centuries, and longer. Examples include the sunspot number, geomagnetic records, solar wind reconstructions, solar irradiances, and energetic particle forcing. Such datasets are extremely valuable for helping constrain and predict space weather effects, including extreme events.

This topical discussion meeting will:
1) present some of the datasets that have recently been improved and on-going initiatives that address further improvements;
2) illustrate how such datasets are relevant to space weather applications (e.g. risk quantification); and
3) collect community and user feedback regarding the needs for specific datasets.