Solar Origins of Space Weather and Space Climate

Dr. Irene González Hernández was an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory. Her research interests included helioseismology, far side images and ring-diagram analysis. Dr. Rudolf Komm is a Research Scientist at the National Solar Observatory and a leading expert in helioseismology, dynamics of the solar convection zone and the solar activity cycle. Dr. Alexei Pevtsov is an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory. His research interests include solar magnetic fields and helicity, sunspots, the corona, CMEs and space weather. Dr. John Leibacher is an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory and one of the Editors-in-Chief of the journal Solar Physics. His research interests include all aspects of helioseismology and atmospheric dynamics.

Preface.- Buoyant Magnetic Loops Generated by Global Convective Dynamo Action.- Helioseismic Holography of an Artificial Submerged Sound Speed Perturbation and Implications for the Detection of Pre-emergence Signatures of Active Regions.- Active Regions with Superpenumbral Whirls and Their Subsurface Kinetic Helicity.- A Study of Connections Between Solar Flares and Subsurface Flow Fields of Active Regions.- A Full-Sun Magnetic Index from Helioseismology Inferences.- Far- and Extreme-UV Solar Spectral Irradiance and Radiance from Simplified Atmospheric Physical Models.- Survey and Merging of Sunspot Catalogs.- Sunspot Group Development in High Temporal Resolution.- Migration and Extension of Solar Active Longitudinal Zones.- Cyclic and Long-Term Variation of Sunspot Magnetic Fields.- Apparent Solar Tornado-Like Prominences.- Forecasting the Maxima of Solar Cycle 24 with Coronal Fe XIV Emission.- Coronal Magnetic Field Evolution from 1996 to 2012: Continuous Non-Potential Simulations.- Different Periodicities in the Sunspot Area and the Occurrence of Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections in Solar Cycle 23-24.- Do Solar Coronal Holes Affect the Properties of Solar Energetic Particle Events?- From Predicting Solar Activity to Forecasting Space Weather: Practical Examples of Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research.