Space Weather Study Using Multipoint Techniques

Opening address of the COSPAR president to the COSPAR Colloquium on Space Weather Study Using Multipoint Techniques, G. Haerendel; Keynote speech - predicting geomagnetic storms as a space weather project, S.-I. Akasofu. Solar observations and modelling session: Descriptions of coronal streamer structure during the rising phase of cycle 23, M.D. Andrews, S.T. Wu; Taiwan oscillation network - probing the solar interior, D.Y. Chou, the TON Team; Space weather study using combined coronagraphic and in situ observations, N. Gopalswamy; The SECCHI solar plasma imager for STEREO, D.J. Michels; Tomographic analysis of solar wind structure using interplanetary scintillation, M.Kojima et al; Polar plumes in coronal expansion, W.H. Ip; Solar coronal heating and weak fast shocks, L.C. Lee, B.H. Wu; An algorithm of calculation for the motion of looplike coronal mass ejections, T. Yeh. Interplanetary observations and modelling session: Upstream shocks and interplanetary magnetic cloud speed and expansion: Sun,wind and earth observations, R.P. Lepping et al; Electromagnetic electron and proton cyclotron waves in geospace: A Cassini snapshot, B. T. Tsurutani et al; Models for the size and shape of the earth's magnetopause and bow shock, J.K. Chao et al. Magnetospheric observations and modelling session: Interplanetary shock effects on the nightside auroral zone, magnetosphere and ionosphere, Z.Y. Zhou, B.T. Tsurutani; Development of an integrated predictive MHD space weather model from the solar surface of the earth's upper atmosphere, C.R. Clauer et al; Substorms and magnetic storms from the satellite charging perspective, J.F.Fennell, J.L. Roeder, H.C. Koons; Propagation of sudden impulses in the magnetosphere - Linear and nonlinear waves, D.H. Lee, M.K. Hudson; Multi-spacecraft studies in aid of space weather specification and understanding, V. Angelopoulos et al. Low-altitude-satellite observations and modelling session: The electron density distribution in the polar cap - its variability with seasons, and its response to magnetic activity, H. Laakso, R. Grard; Two-level mesopause and its variations from UARS-HRDI temperature data, S. Thulasiraman, J.B. Nee. Ground-based observations and modeling session: The application of high latitude ionosphere radars for space weather research, J. Roettger; Magnetospheric substorms - an inner-magnetosperic modelling perspective, R.A. Wolf et al; High-latitude electrodynamics from a multi-array nonlinear geomagnetic model, D. Vassiliadis et al; Magnetic impulse events and related Pc waves in the Cusp and LLBL region observed by a ground magnetometer network, H. Fukunishi, R. Kataoka, L.J. Lanzerotti; Simultaneous ground-based observations of electric and magnetic field variations near the magnetic equator for space weather study, K. Yumoto et al; Global positioning system studies of ionospheric irregularities, T.L. Beach.