Summary
This Network launched in January 2002 is the extension of the SPECIAL Network: "Space Processes and Electrical Changes Influencing Atmospheric Layers" (May 1999 to December 2000).
Variations in the output of the Sun’s energetic charged particles and also its magnetic field are thought to have an influence on the Earth’s climate. This conclusion has been reached from the many detailed correlations of solar parameters with those in the troposphere, stratosphere and mesosphere. The correlations have been carried out with data on a wide variety of timescales from less than on day to many decades.
The extension of the SPECIAL network is intended to investigate the links between electrodynamic processes in various atmospheric layers and their possible connection to the Earth’s weather and climate. This broad interdisciplinary task is divided in three different groups which will work on the global atmospheric circuit, on charged particle fluxes, events, statistics and on sprites and lightning.
SPECIAL II website go to website
SPECIAL II Flyer (PDF 345 KB)
Duration
2 years, from January 2002 to December 2003 (extension to Summer 2004)
