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<div class="">This summer, we solicited your input for Living with a Star (LWS) Focused Science Topics (FSTs) for ROSES 2019 and beyond. We received 46 topics from all areas of Heliophysics and many comments (see
<a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2018/" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewinput/2018/</a>). We met in early July to carefully review all of these community suggested science topics, as well as topics submitted in previous years, keeping
in mind the Heliophysics Decadal Survey goals, the overall Living with a Star goals, and the TR&T Strategic Science Areas (SSAs). Based on this, we have prepared a draft set of 19 Focused Science Topics, plus a Tools and Methods theme and a Sun-Climate theme,
appended here for your inspection and comment. We considered all of the submitted topics very carefully and tried to create Focused Science Topics that included as much of this input as possible. Please keep in mind that these are draft topics only. We are
now soliciting community feedback on these drafts, as the next, critical stage of this year's process of generating science topics. All of these draft topics are posted on our website at
<b class=""><a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov" class="">https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov</a>,</b> with input boxes for comments and feedback on each individual topic, as well as on the overall process. The feedback site will be open for comments until October
19, 2018. After this comment period closes, the committee will meet again to review the community feedback on the topics and, based on this feedback and on the Decadal Survey, LWS, and TR&T goals, to finalize the topics for our annual report to NASA Headquarters.
We look forward to your feedback on these draft topics.
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<div class="">Mark Linton & Anthea Coster (co-chairs) </div>
<div class="">On behalf of the Living with a Star Program Analysis Group Executive Committee
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<div class="">Draft Focused Science Topics: </div>
<div class="">● Understanding the Impact of Thermospheric Structure and Dynamics on Orbital Drag </div>
<div class="">● Understanding and Predicting Radiation Belt Loss in the Coupled Magnetosphere </div>
<div class="">● Pathways of Cold Plasma through the Magnetosphere </div>
<div class="">● Understanding the Variability of the ITM System Due to Tides, Planetary Waves, Gravity Waves, and Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances </div>
<div class="">● The Variable Radiation Environment in the Dynamical Solar and Heliospheric System </div>
<div class="">● The Origin and Consequences of Suprathermal Particles </div>
<div class="">● Connecting Thermospheric Composition and Space Weather </div>
<div class="">● Understanding Ionospheric Conductivity and Its Variability </div>
<div class="">● Modeling and Validation of Ionospheric Irregularities and Scintillations </div>
<div class="">● Fast Reconnection Onset ● Extreme Solar Events -- Probabilistic Forecasting and Physical Understanding </div>
<div class="">● Connecting Auroral Phenomena with Magnetospheric Phenomena </div>
<div class="">● Understanding Space Weather Effects and Developing Mitigation Strategies for Human Deep Space Flight </div>
<div class="">● Solar Photospheric Magnetic Fields </div>
<div class="">● Magnetospheric and Ionospheric Processes Responsible for Rapid Geomagnetic Changes </div>
<div class="">● Coupling of Solar Wind Plasma and Energy into the Geospace System </div>
<div class="">● Combining Models and Observations to Study CME Plasma Energetics in the Inner Corona </div>
<div class="">● Atmospheric Evolution and Loss to Space in the Presence of a Star </div>
<div class="">● Hemispherical Asymmetries in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling Processes: Fundamental Causes and Myriad Manifestations </div>
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<div class="">Draft Sun-Climate Theme: </div>
<div class="">● Variability and Predictability of the Solar-Driven Earth System </div>
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<div class="">Draft Tools and Methods Theme: </div>
<div class="">● Data Science and Analytics</div>
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Niels Bohr<br class="">
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