SCOSTEP organizes and conducts international solar-terrestrial programs (STP) programs of finite duration in cooperation with other International Council For Science(ICSU) bodies. Results from these programs are shared with the community of SCOSTEP scientists by joining in conducting meetings, conferences, and workshops and by publishing newsletters, handbooks and special journal issues.

Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES)
SCOSTEP'S comprehensive international STP program for 2004 - 2008

CAWSES comprises four scientific �themes� represented by Working Groups. They are:

* WG-1: Solar Influence on Climate, Co-Chairs: M. Lockwood and L. Gray;

* WG-2: Space Weather: Science & Applications, Co-Chairs: J. Kozyra and K. Shibata;

* WG-3: Atmospheric Coupling Processes, Co-Chairs: F.-J. Luebken and J. Alexander; and

* WG-4: Space Climatology, Co-Chairs: C. Froehlich and J. Sojka.

CAWSES is an international program sponsored by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics) established with an aim of significantly enhancing our understanding of the space environment and its impacts on life and society. The main functions of CAWSES are to help coordinate international activities in observations, modeling, and applications crucial to achieving this understanding, to involve scientists in both developed and developing countries, and to provide educational opportunities for students of all levels.

Scientific activities of CAWSES was under the oversight of a Scientific Steering Group (SSG) led by Dr. Sunanda Basu. Prof. Susan Avery assumed the Chair of CAWSES since 1 August 2006. The CAWSES Program Office currently resides at Boston University. The Scientific Coordinator is Dr. D. Pallamraju (raju@cawses.bu.edu). Full details about CAWSES are on-line at the website: http://www.bu.edu/cawses.

The Education and Capacity Building aspect of CAWSES is presently a responsibility of R. Vincent, B. Schmieder, and G. Lu (SCOSTEP Executive Officers), on behalf of the SCOSTEP Bureau. As part of Capacity Building effort, a series of educational comic books have been produced under the supervision and guidance of Prof. Y. Kamide. It is a collaborative project between the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (STEL) at Nagoya University in Japan and the CAWSES program.

For English and Italian versions of the comic books: Click here.

For the Japanese version of the comic books: Click here.