The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) has extended the deadline for submissions to the Topical Issue "Swarm 10-Year Anniversary" to 15 April 2025.
The topical issue (TI) is dedicated to new results from ESA's Swarm mission, in particular to investigations of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Ionospheric and Thermospheric processes, and their implications for Space Weather, including potential impacts on critical infrastructure. This issue seeks to bring together cutting-edge studies that shed light on the quiet-time and dynamic ionosphere, including the study of Alfvén waves, Equatorial Spread-F events, plasma bubbles, ULF plasma waves, Field-Aligned Currents etc.
Swarm is ESA's first constellation mission for Earth Observation. The mission consists of three identical satellites, A(lpha), B(ravo), and C(harlie), which were launched on 22 November 2013 into a low altitude (about 500 km) near-polar orbit. Swarm is dedicated to creating a highly detailed survey of Earth's geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution, complemented by electric field and neutral atmosphere observations in the topside ionosphere-thermosphere. After an initial nominal mission of four years, until November 2017, Swarm was granted two four-year extensions, with an option to further extend the mission, possibly towards covering two solar cycles. Swarm data presents an invaluable opportunity to validate, refine, and augment existing knowledge in the upper atmosphere domain.
While this Topical Issue arises from the Swarm 10-year anniversary conference in April 2024, contributions are not limited to participants of the conference. The TI is open to all submissions that fit its scope. Submissions focusing on the near-Earth space science performed with Swarm, including external fields (e.g. magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling, quiet-time ionosphere, dynamic ionosphere etc.) and space weather aspects, are strongly encouraged. The integration of observations and models is particularly welcomed, fostering a deeper understanding of ionospheric physics within the context of space weather.
The Topical Editor-in-Chief is Georgios Balasis (gbalasis(at)noa.gr) from the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) in Greece. Manuscripts must be submitted via the JSWSC online submission tool. Guidelines for submission of papers are found on the JSWSC website under the tab "Instruction for Authors". The deadline for submissions is now 15 April 2025.
