Ground-based synoptic solar observations provide critical contextual data used to model the large-scale state of the heliosphere. The next decade will see a combination of ground-based telescopes and space missions that will study our Sun's atmosphere microscopic processes with unprecedented detail. This white paper describes contextual observations from a ground-based network needed to fully exploit this new knowledge of the underlying physics that leads to the magnetic linkages between the heliosphere and the Sun. This combination of a better understanding of small-scale processes and the appropriate global context will enable a physics-based approach to Space Weather comparable to Terrestrial Weather forecasting.
@article{arxiv.2212.03247,
title = {Ground-based Synoptic Studies of the Sun},
author = {Sanjay Gosain and V. Martinez Pillet and A. Pevtsov and H. Gilbert and S. Gibson and A. G. de Wijn and J. Burkepile and A. Asai and H. M. Bain and C. J. Henney and Y. Katsukawa and H. Lin and W. Manchester and J. McAteer and K. Muglach and M. Rast and M. Roth and J. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03247},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures, White paper submitted to Heliodecadal 2024, Category: Basic Research, Solar Physics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1903.06944 [updated version as submitted to Heliodecadal 2024]