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AN: SH51C-1229    [Abstracts]
TI: NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Theory Program - Recent Science Contributions to Understanding the Connections
AU: * Grebowsky, J M
EM: joseph.m.grebowsky@nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 695 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Theory Program (SECTP) is now at the beginning of a new triennial cycle of funded research, with all the new research awards beginning in 2005. The SECTP, formerly the Space Physics Theory Program (SPTP), was initially established by the (former) Solar Terrestrial Division in 1980 to redress a weakness of support in the theory area. It has been a successful, evolving scientific program for long-term funding of relatively large "critical mass groups" pursuing theory and modeling on a scale larger than that available within the limits of traditional NASA Supporting Research & Technology (SR&T) awards. The results of the last 3 year funding cycle, just ended, carried on in the same successful manner, by contributing to ever more cutting edge theoretical understanding of all parts of the Sun-Earth Connection chain. The advances ranged from the core of the Sun out into the corona, through the solar wind into the Earth's magnetosphere and down to the ionosphere and lower atmosphere with applications to understanding the environments of other solar system bodies. The contributions were not isolated findings but continued to contribute to the planning and implementation of NASA spacecraft missions and to the development of the predictive computer models that have become the workhorses for analyzing satellite and ground-based measurements.
DE: 2499 General or miscellaneous
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SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005