Space Engineering > Detectors Group > Projects HELIOTER
Contract no.: 81-021/18.09.2007
Project Name :
HELIOSPHERIC VARIABILITIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON SOME COMPONENTS OF THE TERRESTRIAL SYSTEM
(HELIOTER)
CONTRACTING AUTHORITY:
National Center For Program Management, The Minister of Education and Research
Contractor Name:
Institute for Space Sciences
Project Subcontractors:
Institute of Geodynamics, Bucharest
INFLPR
Project Director:
Dr. Ovidiu Maris
Project Objectiv:
The project HELIOTER concerns a complex research in a pluri- and inter-disciplinary field which includes the heliospheric and magnetospheric physics. The project aims at studying heliospheric variability determined by the magnetized plasma of the solar wind and of the effects induced in the magnetosphere and in the geomagnetic field. This research direction is getting more and more attention worldwide as the combined effects of heliospheric and magnetospheric factors induce hazardeous disturbances in terrestrial and space technological systems, climate anomalies, and harmful biological consequences. To mitigate them as much as possible a comprehensive approach and issuing reliable temporal projections on the state of the magnetosphere and atmosphere are necessary.
The project objectives include both short-term variabilities (Space Weather) and long-term ones (Space Climate):
Setting up a catalogue high speed streams in the solar wind for the solar cycle no. 23;
Analysis of solar wind plasma characteristics (composition, temperature, energy);
Analysis of the structure and dynamics of the heliosphere for the solar cycles nos.
20-23 (1964-2007);
Analysis of the medium- and long-term geomagnetic activity in relation with the heliospheric variability;
Analysis of magnetospheric variability induced by the main magnetic field of the Earth;
