SOLAR WIND NINE: Proceedings of the Ninth International Solar Wind Conference

Shadia Rifai Habbal, Harvard University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA

Conference Location and Date: Nantucket, MA, 5-9 October 1998

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published ; ISBN 1563968657 One Volume Print, CD-ROM included; pages;

Readership: Physicists, space physicists, astrophysicists, meteorologists, and geophysicists interested in the origin and evolution of solar, stellar, and polar winds and planetary atmospheres.

The Solar Wind Nine Conference was the ninth in the series of solar wind conferences established in 1964 by Dr. Marcia Neugebauer to provide a forum for the interaction between solar physicists and space physicists interested in the origin and evolution of the solar wind. One of the scientific goals of the conference was to reflect the importance of the synergistic interaction between theory, numerical modeling and simulations, in situ measurements, and remote sensing observations in the exploration of the solar wind. Indeed, the opportunity provided by the many concurrent missions (Ulysses, Yohkoh, SOHO, TRACE, SPARTAN, WIND, and ACE) that probe the Sun and interplanetary space from different vantage points provided very rich material for the contributions. The presentations included invited reviews and contributed talks, as well as poster presentations. This conference took place almost 40 years after Parker's prediction of the existence of the solar wind. The conference was marked by four overarching themes: origin of the solar wind, internal state of the solar wind, large-scale structure and dynamics, and the outer heliosphere.

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