Basic Study of Space Weather Prediction

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17GS0208
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: SHIBATA Kazunari Kyoto University, 理学研究科, 教授 (70144178)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SEKII Takashi 国立天文台, 太陽天体プラズマ研究部, 准教授 (20332158) ; KUSANO Kanya 名古屋大学, 太陽地球環境研究所, 教授 (70183796) ; FUJIKI Kenichi 名古屋大学, 太陽地球環境研究所, 助教 (20303597) ; OGINO Tatuki 名古屋大学, 太陽地球環境研究所, 教授 (00109274) ; HOSHINO Masahiro 東京大学, 理学研究科, 教授 (90241257) ; SHINOHARA Iku 宇宙航空研究開発機構, 宇宙科学研究本部, 准教授 (20301723) ; UGAI Masayuki 愛媛大学, 宇宙進化研究センター, 教授 (10036444) ; KATOU Seiichi 兵庫医療大学, 共通教育センター, 講師 (40346127) ; OHMURA YOshiharu 京都大学, 生存圏研究所, 教授 (50177002) ; MURATA Takeshi 情報通信研究機構, 電磁波計測研究センター宇宙環境計測グループ, グループリーダー (20274342) ; FUJIMOTO Masaki 東京工業大学, 理工学研究科, 助教授 (30242811) ; TSUNETA Saku 国立天文台, 太陽天体プラズマ研究部, 教授 (50188603) ; OBARA Takahiro 宇宙航空研究開発機構, 研究開発本部, 宇宙環境グループリーダー (50194626)
• Project Period (FY): 2005 – 2009
• Keywords: 太陽 / 太陽風 / 地球磁気圏 / 電離圏 / 宇宙天気 / プラズマ / スペース / 天文

Research Abstract

Space weather prediction is an urgent issue for modern civilization. Basic study of space weather prediction has been carried out, by developing the numerical multi-scale coupling model for the system from the Sun to the Earth on the basis of the new observations. This study was pushed as a part of CAWSES (Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth system) program for 5 years, to encourage active communication and collaboration between solar physicists and geophysicists both in Japan and international communities.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Nonlinear Propagation of Alfven waves driven by Observed Phospheric Motions : Application to the Coronal Heating and Spicle Formation (2010)
  • Author(s): Matsumoto, T., Shibata, K.
  • Journal Title: ApJ 710 Pages: 1857-1867
• [Journal Article] Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling for a Formation Process of Coronal Mass Ejections : Interaction Between an Ejecting Flux Rope and an Ambient Field (2010)
  • Author(s): Shiota, D., Kusano, K., Miyoshi, T., Shibata, K.
  • Journal Title: ApJ 718, Issue 2 Pages: 1305-1314
• [Journal Article] High-Resolution Helioseismic Imaging of Subsurface Structures and Flows of a Solar Active Region Observed by Hinode (2010)
  • Author(s): Zhao, J., Kosovichev, A.G., Sekii, T.
  • Journal Title: ApJ 708 Pages: 304-313
• [Journal Article] Structure of a Strong Supernova Shock Wave and Rapid Electron Acceleration Confined in its Transition Region (2010)
  • Author(s): Shimada, N., Hoshino,M., Amano, T.
  • Journal Title: Phys.of Plasmas 17 Pages: 032902
• [Journal Article] Numerical Examination of Plasmoid-Induced Reconnection Model for Solar Flares : The Relation between Plasmoid Velocity and Reconnection Rate (2009)
  • Author(s): Nishida, K., Shimizu, S., Shiota, D., Takasaki, H., Magara, T., Shibata, K.
  • Journal Title: ApJ 690 Pages: 748-757
• [Journal Article] Evolution of the anemone AR NOAA 10798 and the relates geo-effective flares and CMEs (2009)
  • Author(s): Asai, A., Shibata,K., Ishii,T.T., Oka, M., Kataoka,R., Fujiki,K., Gropalswamy, N.
  • Journal Title: JGR 114 Pages: A00A21
• [Journal Article] Three-dimentionalMHD modeling of the solar wind structures associated with 13 December 2006 coronal mass ejection (2009)
  • Author(s): Kataoka, R., Ebisuzaki,T., Kusano, K., et al.
  • Journal Title: J.Geophys.Res. 114 Pages: A10102
• [Journal Article] Non-dipolar SolarWind Structure Observed in the Cycle 23/24 Minimum (2009)
  • Author(s): Tokumaru, M., Kojima,M., Fujiki, K.
  • Journal Title: Geophys.Res.Lett. 36 Pages: L09101 120
• [Journal Article] Electron Shock Surfing Acceleration in Multidimensions : Two-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Simulation of Collisionless Perpendicular Shock (2009)
  • Author(s): Amano, T., Hoshino, M.
  • Journal Title: ApJ 690 Pages: 244-251
• [Journal Article] Electron acceleration via magnetic island coalescence (2009)
  • Author(s): Shinohara, I., et al.
  • Journal Title: AIP Conference Proceedings(Future Perspectives of Space Plasma and Particle Instrumentation and International Collaborations) Vol.1144 Pages: 15-20
• [Journal Article] Magnetohydrodynamics Study of Three-dimensional Fast Magnetic Reconnection for Intermittent Snake-line Downflows in Solar Flares (2009)
  • Author(s): Shimizu, T., Kondo, K., Ugai, M., Shibata, K.
  • Journal Title: ApJ 707 Pages: 420
• [Journal Article] The magnetic Landscape of the Sun's Polar Region (2008)
  • Author(s): Tsuneta, S., et al.
  • Journal Title: ApJ 688 Pages: 1374-1381
• [Journal Article] Theory and simulation of the generation of whistler-mode chorus (2008)
  • Author(s): Omura, Y., Katoh, Y., Summers, D.
  • Journal Title: J.Geophys.Res. 113 Pages: A04223
• [Journal Article] Impulsive chromospheric heating of two-ribbon flares by the fast reconnection mechanism (2008)
  • Author(s): Ugai, M.
  • Journal Title: Phys.of Plasma 15 Pages: 032902
• [Journal Article] The evolution of fast reconnection in a three-dimensional current sheet system (2008)
  • Author(s): Ugai, M.
  • Journal Title: Phys.Plasmas 15 Pages: 082306
• [Journal Article] Chromospheric Anemone Jets as Evidence of Ubiquitous Magnetic Reconnection (2007)
  • Author(s): Shibata, K., et al.
  • Journal Title: Science 318 Pages: 1591-1594
• [Journal Article] Basic Study of Space Weather Predictions : A New Project in Japan (2007)
  • Author(s): Shibata, K., Kamide, Y.
  • Journal Title: Space Weather Volume 5, Issue 12
• [Journal Article] CHAIN-project and installation of the flare monitoring telescopes in developing countries (2007)
  • Author(s): Ueno, S., Shibata, K., et al.
  • Journal Title: Bull.Astr.Soc.India 35 Pages: 697-704
• [Journal Article] Coronal Transverse Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in a Solar Prominence (2007)
  • Author(s): Okamoto, T.J., Tsuneta, S., Berger, T.E., Ichimoto, K., Katsukawa, Y., Lites, B.W., Nagata, S., Shibata, K., et al.
  • Journal Title: Science 318 Pages: 1577-1580
• [Journal Article] Geomagntic storms, in the Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment (2007)
  • Author(s): Kamide, Y., Maltsev, Y.P.
  • Journal Title: edited by Y.Kamide and A.C.-L.Chian, Springer Pub. Heidelberg Pages: 356-374
• [Journal Article] From IGY to eGY : The importance of real-time data in space physics (2007)
  • Author(s): Kamide, Y.
  • Journal Title: Adv.Geosciences 8, edited by M.Duldig et al. World Sci.Pub. Pages: 1-24
• [Journal Article] Initial Helioseismic Observations by Hinode/SOT (2007)
  • Author(s): Sekii, T., et al.
  • Journal Title: PASJ 59 Pages: S637-S641
• [Journal Article] Simulation Study of Transition Process from Long-Lived Sigmoid to Flare Eruption (2007)
  • Author(s): Kusano, K.
  • Journal Title: New Solar Physics with Solar-B Mission ASP Conference Series 369 Pages: 469
• [Journal Article] Relativistic turning acceleration of resonant electrons by coherent whisler mode waves in a dipole magnetic field (2007)
  • Author(s): Omura, Y., Furuya,N., Summers, D.
  • Journal Title: J.Geophys.Res. 112 Pages: A06236
• [Presentation] SOLAR WIND FORECAST BY USING INTERPLANETARY SCINTILLATION OBSERVATIONS (2009)
  • Author(s): Fujiki, K., et al.
  • Organizer: Solar Wind 12, Saint-Malo
  • Place of Presentation: France(poster)
  • Year and Date: 20090621-20090626
• [Presentation] IS THE POLAR REGION DIFFERENT FROM THE QUIET REGION OF THE SUN? (2009)
  • Author(s): Ito, H., Tsuneta, S., Shiota, D., Tokumaru, M., Fujiki, K.
  • Organizer: Solar Wind 12, Saint-Malo
  • Place of Presentation: France(poster)
  • Year and Date: 20090621-20090626
• [Presentation] Lecture on Particle Acceleration in Shock Waves (2009)
  • Author(s): Hoshino, M.
  • Organizer: International School-Particle Acceleration in the Universe GCOE Program/Nagoya
  • Place of Presentation: University
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-14
• [Presentation] An initial result of 3D full particle simulation of quasi-perpendicular shock (2009)
  • Author(s): Shinohara, I., Fujimoto, M.
  • Organizer: 11th Scientific Assembly of IAGA
  • Place of Presentation: Sopron, Hungary.
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-25
• [Presentation] Propagation of coronal mass ejections in the interplanetary medium (2009)
  • Author(s): Tokumaru, M., Kojima, M., Fujiki, K.
  • Organizer: AOGS2009
  • Place of Presentation: Singapore
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-15
• [Presentation] Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions in the Magnetosphere (2009)
  • Author(s): Omura, Y.
  • Organizer: AOGS2010
  • Place of Presentation: Singapore
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-12
• [Presentation] Modeling of flare phenomena in space plasmas by fast reconnection (2009)
  • Author(s): Ugai, M.
  • Organizer: 10th IPELS Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Sweden
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-09
• [Presentation] Space Weather Modeling of the Solar Terrestrial Connection Event in December 2006 : From the Sun to the Interplanetary Space (2009)
  • Author(s): Kusano, K., Shibata, K., et al.
  • Organizer: Space Weather Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2009-04-30
• [Presentation] Multi-scale Simulation Study of Solar-Cosmic and Terrestrial Environment (2009)
  • Author(s): Kusano, K., Shiota, D., Inoue, S., Sugiyama, T., Shima, S., Kawamura, Y., Kataoka, R., Miyoshi, T., Asano, E., Matsumoto, T., Ogino, T., Shibata, K.
  • Organizer: Space Climate symposium 3, Saariselka
  • Place of Presentation: Finnish Lapland
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-20
• [Presentation] High-Resolution Helioseismic Observations (2008)
  • Author(s): Sekii, T.
  • Organizer: Second Hinode Science Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • Year and Date: 2008-10-02
• [Presentation] MHD simulation of interaction of the solar wind with earth's magnetosphere for the magnetospheric storm events (2008)
  • Author(s): Ogino, T.
  • Organizer: AOGS2008
  • Place of Presentation: Busan, Korea
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-18
• [Presentation] Initial Results of Hinode (Solar B) mission (2007)
  • Author(s): Shibata, K.
  • Organizer: IPELS (Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space) Palm Cove
  • Place of Presentation: Cairns, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2007-08-05
• [Presentation] Predictability of Solar Flare Onset and Multi-scale Modeling for Space Weather Dynamics (2006)
  • Author(s): Kusano, K., et al.
  • Organizer: CAWSES International Workshop on Space Weather Modeling (CSWM)
  • Place of Presentation: Yokohama, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2006-11-17
• [Presentation] Integration between Solar Data and Space Science Data for Space Weather Forecast (2006)
  • Author(s): Kato, S.X.
  • Organizer: CODATA2006
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2006-10-24
• [Presentation] Solar Activity Affecting Space Weather (2006)
  • Author(s): Shibata, K.
  • Organizer: SCOSTEP's 11th Quadrennial STP Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Year and Date: 2006-03-07
• [Book] 総説宇宙天気 (2011)
  • Author(s): 柴田一成、上出洋介
  • Total Pages: 654
  • Publisher: 京大学術出版会
• [Book] 太陽の科学 (2010)
  • Author(s): 柴田一成
  • Total Pages: 231
  • Publisher: NHK出版
• [Book] Climate and Weather of the Sun and Earth System (CAWSES)(Selected Papers from the 2007 Kyoto Symposium) (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsuda, T., Fujii, R., Shibata K., Gellar, M.(eds.)
  • Total Pages: 360
  • Publisher: TERRAPUB, Tokyo
• [Book] "New Solar Physics with Solar-B Mission" ASP conference series, Volume : 369 (Astronomical Society of the Pacific) (2007)
  • Author(s): Shibata, K., Nagata, S., Sakurai, T.(ed.)
  • Total Pages: 596
• [Book] Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment (2007)
  • Author(s): Kamide,Y., A.C.-L.Chian
  • Total Pages: 540
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag, Heidelberg
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  • URL: http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/spw/