We invite abstract submissions (deadline 14 February 2014) to the upcoming COSPAR session “Coronal Magnetism”.

Coronal magnetism is at the heart of any understanding of the origins of space weather at the Earth, and of the slower evolution on solar-cycle time scales of its space environment. We are now at a watershed moment: not only are telescopes using infrared, visible, and radio magnetometry obtaining unprecedented observations, but also future large telescopes are under development and construction, making it feasible to map the three-dimensional magnetic field from photosphere up into the corona. The insight we stand to gain from such observations will shed light on a wide range of analogous magnetic phenomena throughout space physics.

Session topics: Observations at multiple wavelengths; Theory and modeling: helicity, topology, and magnetic energy storage; Forward and inverse methods of analysis; The coronal magnetic field throughout the solar cycle; The future of coronal magnetometry