International coordinated efforts for IHY 2007
Abstract
The International Heliophysical Year IHY in 2007 marks the enormous progress made since the International Geophysical Year IGY in 1957 The philosophy behind IHY is similar to that of IGY in studying the environment of our habitat except that the scope has increased to the physical space extending to the interstellar medium This paper describes the international organization of the IHY and planning for a successful program in 2007 In particular we describe the national regional and global efforts in pooling the resources to address the universal processes that govern the solar system and its interaction with the surrounding medium The efforts include identifying science questions of immediate concern and the data sets needed to address these questions The data will be acquired using a truly distributed observatory consisting of all the ground and space-based instruments that exist today and those to be constructed before 2007 The international planning also involves coordinating with the United Nations which through its Basic Space Science Initiative is facilitating the participation of the developing nations in the IHY program An update of the current status of the planning activities at the international level will be presented
- Publication:
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36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006cosp...36.2743G