NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Theory Program - into 3rd Decade

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Dec 2002

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #SH21A-0489

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Space Physics

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NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Theory Program (SECTP) is now in its first year of a new triennial cycle of funded research, with all the research awards beginning in 2002. The focus of the current research efforts and the accomplishments of the previous 3-year (1998-2001) cycle of research, just terminating, will be described. 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 and Technology (SR&T) awards. The results of the program over the years has contributed to ever more cutting edge theoretical understanding of all parts of the Sun-Earth Connection chain, 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. In addition, it continues to support the development of more and more realistic computer models that have become the workhorses for analyzing satellite and ground-based measurements and in helping to plan and implement NASA spacecraft missions. The focus of the program and the applications of its research results are viewed in this paper from the perspective of recent program activities.

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