Space Physics Seminar winter-2014

The term "Space Weather" refers to conditions in space that can endanger our technology or human health. This research area emerged in the 1990s and rapidly became the dominant theme of solar, interplanetary, magnetospheric, ionospheric and thermospheric research. This talk will review the evolution of space weather research from the 1990s through the present and briefly discuss the state-of-the-art in space weather prediction. The talk will conclude with the discussion of some new research that might lead to actual predictive capabilities in the not too distant future.