SHINE is encouraging detailed studies of selected events in the form of Campaigns to advance this research. The overarching theme of the Campaign Events program is to improve our understanding of the coronal mass ejection (CME) process as well as the coronal and solar wind context in which they occur. Three general questions that the Campaigns address are:
- How are CMEs initiated?
- How do they evolve or propagate?
- How are solar energetic particles accelerated and transported?
The general approach is to bring as much data and interpretation as possible to bear on a given event to allow detailed comparisons between the data and (competing) models and thus guide their development and improvement.
Four events or event periods were selected before the SHINE 2003 Workshop, and four leaders assigned to guide the work on each event. These events were chosen because they occurred since the start of the SOHO era in 1996, and have reasonably complete data on both the solar source regions and the propagation of the CME through the low corona into the heliosphere. The events with their leaders are:
- May 12, 1997 Nick Arge Contact e-mail: nick.arge@hanscom.af.mil
- May 1, 1998 Brian Welsch Contact e-mail: welsch@ssl.berkeley.edu (including late April and early May event series)
- April 21, 2002 Allan Tylka and David Alexander: Contact e-mail: allan.tylka@nrl.navy.mil (including earlier activity from same active region)
- August 24, 2002 Allan Tylka and David Alexander: Contact e-mail: allan.tylka@nrl.navy.mil (including earlier activity from same active region)
A website has been established for aiding researchers in these studies, in particular for depositing pertinent data and for exchange of models and simulations and general discussions involving these events and the science questions: http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/SHINE2003/index.html. If you wish to become involved with one or more of these events, please contact the appropriate Event Leader. Each leader will maintain an up-to-date e-mail address list for communication with the members of his Event study group. We encourage your prompt response so that significant progress can be made on these events before the SHINE 2004 Workshop, June 27-July 1.