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REMOTE PARTICIPATION: The presentations and posters from the workshop will be updated daily: Posters and presentations. Please send any additional posters/presentation material and data updates to whi.data {at} gmail.com.

Workshop Agenda

The workshop will consist primarily of examination and discussion of observations and models supporting the Whole Heliosphere Interval. The workshop structure will include plenary/full group discussion sessions in the mornings, and small group breakouts in the afternoon. Please note that we will not be accepting abstracts for spoken presentations, though posters are welcome.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26:

8:30 AM: Coffee + pastries (CG1 Atrium):

9:00 AM: PLENARY (Chair D. Webb):

Welcome to WHI: Introduction and Goals for Workshop (15 minutes) -- S. Gibson:

Keynote talk (45 minutes + 15 minutes discussion/questions) -- B. Tsurutani: "Solar and interplanetary causes of heliospheric, magnetospheric and ionospheric activity throughout the solar cycle."

10:15 AM: COFFEE BREAK CG1 ATRIUM

Highlight subject for Tuesday discussion/breakouts:
Characterize global connected non-transient heliosphere

10:30 AM: Working Groups (45 minutes each, for presentations summarizing expectations/goals for workshop and plenary discussion)

Working Group 1: Building the WHI Mosaic
Group coordinators: Peter Schroeder and Barbara Thompson
How to effectively intercompare a wide range of observations and model output, to build a 3D picture characterizing the interconnected system-- from subsurface-corona-wind-earth and beyond (e.g., Carrington maps, movies, etc.). What we learned from Whole Sun Month.

Working Group 2: Quantifying the solar minimum heliosphere
Group coordinator: Leonard Strachan and Scott McIntosh
Quantitative measures of physical properties. Providing boundary conditions/constraints on models.
Working Group 2: Presentations   2a: Quiet Sun/Irradiance   2b: Streamers/cavities/slow wind   2c: Polar plumes/polar fast wind

Working Group 3: Tracing (non-transient) structures from Sun to Earth and beyond
Group coordinator: Sarah Gibson and Toni Galvin and Tim Fuller-Rowell
Corotating Interaction Regions: Origins and Impacts.
  3a: Equatorial Coronal Holes and open magnetic flux (EUVI movie-Webb) Where is Nessie? (de Toma)   3b: High speed streams in the wind (Galvin) (Jackson)   3c: Impacts at geospace (Emery) (Lei)   3d: Modeling origins and propagation of high-speed streams   3e: Background (non-solar-driven) ionosphere (Fuller-Rowell)

12:45 -- 1:30 PM: LUNCH

1:30-3:30 PM: WORKING GROUPS BREAK OUT (sub-groups of 2 and 3 meet at least initially as one group)

3:30 PM: BREAK (soft drinks, snacks) CG1 ATRIUM

4:00-5:30 PM: WORKING GROUPS BREAK OUT

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27:

8:30 AM: Coffee + bagels (CG1 Atrium):

9:00 AM: PLENARY (Chair S. Gibson):

Working Group reports and discussion (1 1/2 hours)

Working Group 1 report

Working Group 2 report

Working Group 3 report

Working Group 3 results: origins and impacts of high-speed wind streams

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Highlight subject for Wednesday discussion/breakouts:
Analyze energy transport/transients throughout heliosphere

11:00 -- 12:30 PM: Working Groups (45 minutes each, for presentations summarizing expectations/goals for workshop and plenary discussion)

Working Group 4: Tracing CMEs from Sun to Earth and Beyond
Group coordinator: David Webb
Origins (active region/filament), multi-spectral multi-distance (from Sun) analysis. March 26, April 9, etc...


Working Group 5: Global evolution for rotations surrounding WHI
Group coordinator: Gordon Petrie
Sub-surface flows/flux emergence. Appearance of active regions. Tilt of current sheet. Large-scale neutral line/filament channel evolution. Heliospheric Current Sheet evolution. Magnetic sector boundary structure. Geospace characteristics. (de Toma)

12:30 PM -- 1:30 PM: LUNCH

1:30 -- 3:30 PM: WORKING GROUPS BREAK OUT (groups 1-3 or subsets of these may also continue if desired)

3:30 PM: BREAK (soft drinks, snacks) in CG1 ATRIUM

4:00-5:30 PM: WORKING GROUPS BREAK OUT

6:00 PM: DINNER RECEPTION AT CENTER GREEN ATRIUM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28

MORNING/LUNCH: FREE (we may organize a hike)

1:00 PM: PLENARY (Chair: B. Thompson):

Working Group reports and discussion (1 hour)

Working Group 4 reports

Highlight subject for Thursday discussion/breakouts:
(Working groups 1-5 reconvene, but focus on this subject as desired)

Summary of WHI vs. WSM (Whole Sun Month):
Are there common consequences of "near-solar-minimum" solar boundary on heliophysical system-- or Is this a qualitatively different minimum than the last?
  -Solar cycle differences: Solar Irradiance (Woods)
  -Solar cycle differences: Sun's polar field (Svalgaard)
  -Solar cycle differences: ULysses polar passes (Gosling)
  -SAIC MAS model: WHI vs WSM (Linker/Riley/Mikic)
  -Emery solar wind and global electron hemispheric power: WHI vs WSM

3:00 PM: BREAK (soft drinks, snacks) in CG1 ATRIUM

3:30-5:30 PM: CONTINUED DISCUSSION AND/OR WORKING GROUPS BREAK OUT

FRIDAY AUG 29 (morning only).

8:30 AM: Coffee + muffins (CG1 Atrium):

9:00 AM -- PLENARY (Chair T. Fuller-Rowell):

Final WG summaries.

10:30 PM: COFFEE BREAK in CG1 ATRIUM

Wrap-up discussion and future plans.

12:00 PM -- MEETING ADJOURNS