Solar Transients and Space Weather (STSW)

Develop models, analysis techniques, and instrumentation to undertake and facilitate investigation into the magnetism and dynamics of the outer solar atmosphere and their impact on short-term solar variability and space weather events.

In line with that of HAO, it is the STSW section's vision to:

• Perform world-leading science to fundamentally understand the processes that govern the magnetism and related energy release into the outer solar atmosphere.
• Provide scientific leadership and facilities to serve the wider community in common pursuit of STSW science objectives.
• Support the education and training of early-career researchers in STSW related physics and instrumentation.
• Provide advocacy for the physics of the STSW, promoting its results, and articulating its societal importance, to the university community and the public.

• To provide the community with the highest quality measurements of the vector magnetic field in the outer solar atmosphere, moving onward to routine measurements of the chromosphere.
• To develop, and provide community access to, numerical models of flux emergence processes including those leading to CME onset.
• To provide the community with access to spectro-polarimetric data analysis software.
• To engage the community in the design, construction, and implementation of the next generation of observing tools.