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A special issue on the International Workshop of the 2008 Solar Total Eclipse
By Science in China Press,
Oct 31, 2009 - 3:59:36 AM
On August 1, 2008 a total solar eclipse was visible within a narrow corridor that traversed from North America to China. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow started from Canada and extended across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. A partial eclipse was seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which included northeastern part of North America, most parts of Europe and Asia.
At a solar physics meeting, held in Kunming, China in the fall of 2006, Professor Yi Wang, the deputy director of the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Professor Peiwen Ji, the deputy director of the Mathematical and Physical Section of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), pointed out the importance of the 2008 total eclipse in China and provided many suggestions for the organization of the total eclipse program. Consequently several special grants from NAOC and NSFC were awarded for the August 1, 2008 total eclipse program in China.
The 2008 solar eclipse in China attracted many solar scientists in China, as well as those abroad, who in turn proposed an international workshop before the total eclipse. The first proposal of such an international solar workshop in China to be held at the then coming 2008 total solar eclipse came via email from Prof. J. Stenflo in 2007. After extensive discussions among both domestic and overseas scientists, the international workshop of the 2008 solar total eclipse was named Solar Magnetism, Corona and Space Weather -- Chinese Space Solar Telescope Science. The workshop aimed to promote the scientific communications of scientists as well as the space solar project of the Space Solar Telescope of China (SSTC).
The Sun, a unique resolvable star, can be observed in great details. It exerts tremendous influence on our living planet - the Earth in the way of sunshine, the solar storms, solar winds and so on. The recent years have witnessed a series of achievements in the area of solar physics in China, which cover a relatively wide content of solar physics, such as the measurements and studies of solar magnetic activities, the solar flares/coronal mass ejections, the solar cycle and the relationship with space weather.
The Scientific Organization Committee (SOC) members of the workshop were G. X. Ai (China), C. Fang (China), B. Lites (USA), Z. X. Liu (China), H. Wang (USA), T. Sakurai (Japan), K. Shibata (Japan), S. Solanki (Germany), J. Stenflo (Switzerland), H. Q. Zhang (Chair, China), M. Zhang (China). Profs. S. Solanki, B. Lites, C. Fang, M. Zhang, and Professor Y. Yan of NAOC offered practical suggestions for the programs of the workshop. Most important of all, Professor Mei Zhang was responsible for the organization work of the programs. The members of Local Organization Committee were H. Q. Zhang (Chair, NAOC), M. Zhang (NAOC), Zhanao Sun (Jiuquan), Binhai Wei (Jiuquan), Y. Wang (NAOC), and X. Bao (NAOC).
The solar workshop held from July 28 to Aug. 1, 2008, at Jiuquan, Gansu Provence of China mainly covered the following topics.
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