ABOUT SCOSTEP
The Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) is an international organization established in 1966 with the goal of strengthening and promoting international solar-terrestrial physics research. SCOSTEP scientific programs are of interdisciplinary nature and involve scientists from all around the world. The underlying theme of these programs is the way the Sun affects the Earth over various time-scales.
SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION
The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) organizes the Solar-Terrestrial Physics (STP) symposium once every four years. SCOSTEP is engaged in three major activities: long-term scientific programs, capacity building, and public outreach. The scientific programs are of an interdisciplinary nature, involving scientists from around the world. They are designed to advance our understanding of the solar-terrestrial relationship using space- and ground-based observations, cutting-edge models, and theory. Under what ways the Sun affects the Earth and its environment over various time scales is the underlying theme of the scientific programs pursued under SCOSTEP. The predictability of those phenomena has been addressed during the recently concluded Predictability of the variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling (PRESTO) in 2020-2024. The SCOSTEP’s new program COURSE in 2026-2030 will address cross-scale coupling processes in the solar-terrestrial system. The SCOSTEP 16th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium (STP-16) aims to gather eminent scientists from solar, magnetospheric, ionospheric, and atmospheric physics communities to discuss and deliberate on the cutting-edge sciences pertaining to STP, especially the cross-scale coupling processes as a focus area in each of the traditional topics deliberated upon during the earlier STP meetings. A series of tutorials/lectures by eminent scientists will be provided two days prior to the STP-16 symposium, i.e., on 30-31 May 2026, for students and early-career scientists on topics of solar-terrestrial physics