The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) opens a Topical Issue (TI) "Space Climate: Solar Extremes, Long-Term Variability, and Impacts on Earth's System", deadline 30 September 2025.
This Topical Issue was initiated at the Space Climate 9 / ISEE Joint Symposium and Sunspot Number Workshop 2024 held in Nagoya and Kyoto (Japan) in early October 2024. However, the TI is not restricted to papers presented during these conferences and is open to any relevant submissions addressing the questions listed below.
This TI invites contributions aiming at understanding long-term solar variability and solar extremes (in terms of particle events and solar grand minimum/maximum states) as well as their effects on the heliosphere, Earth's space environment, atmosphere, and climate. This, in particular, includes the following research topics:
- Understanding the causes and manifestations of long-term solar activity variations;
- Examining the short- and long-term influence of solar activity variations on the Earth's system;
- Recovering and deciphering historical archives of solar activity and solar storms;
- (Re-)calibration of solar activity indices, in particular of sunspot number.
We welcome manuscripts considering these aspects of Space Climate. The manuscripts must be submitted via the JSWSC online submission tool. Guidelines for the submission of papers and information about article processing charges can be found on the JSWSC website under the tab "Instruction for Authors".
Deadline: 30 September 2025
All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of JSWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insights, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions.
Papers will be published immediately upon acceptance, without waiting for the TI closure, in electronic format only, and will be freely available to everyone via the JSWSC website. JSWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.
For questions regarding this Topical Issue, please contact the T-EiCs. For questions concerning the submission process, please contact the Editorial Office.
Topical Editors-in-Chief (T-EiC):
- Hisashi Hayakawa : Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; Space Physics and Operations Division, RAL Space, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK; Riken, Nishina Centre, Wako, Japan
- Theodosios Chatzistergos : Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
Topical Editors (TE):
- Sabrina Bechet, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium
- Prantika Bhowmik, Indian Institute of Science, India
- Irina Mironova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Eugene Rozanov, PMOD, Switzerland
