CEDAR email: Invitation to submit: May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm

[Walach, Maria]

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to the special issue on "Impacts of the Extreme Gannon Geomagnetic Storm of May 2024 throughout the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System”: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/65596/impacts-of-the-extreme-gannon-geomagnetic-storm-of-may-2024-throughout-the-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-system

We seek to advance our understanding of extreme geomagnetic storms and collect relevant papers in one place. The May 2024 storm provides an exemplary event. The remit of the special issue is thus fairly broad to cover a large range of topics:


- solar activity, including the active regions that generated the solar flares and CMEs

- solar wind, IMF, and energetic particle observations near the Sun, at 1 AU, and beyond

- inner magnetosphere response: radiation belts, plasma populations, and magnetic field at geosynchronous distance

- ionospheric response: plasma bubble, ionospheric irregularities, and impacts on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)

- thermospheric response: satellite orbital drag at low-Earth orbit

- auroral observations around the world (optical instruments and naked eye)

- ground magnetic field response, effects on technologies and observations of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs).


We encourage submissions that compare many local/global events in May 2024 with historical events (e.g., March 1989, the Halloween events of 2003, St. Patrick’s Day storms of 2013 and 2015). We also encourage studies focusing on the interaction of the main CME with other planets and solar wind bodies (moons) and other regions of the heliosphere. Contributions focusing on simulation studies are also encouraged. Finally, we encourage submissions with focus on predictions of extreme geomagnetic storms for the remaining period of solar cycle 25 and beyond. Thus, the main goal of this Research Topic is to advance our understanding of extreme geomagnetic storms including the comparison of the May 2004 storm with other historical events.


We wish to name that event as the Extreme Gannon Geomagnetic Storm of May 2024 after Dr. Jennifer Gannon, who unfortunately passed away a week before the event. This Research Topic is also a tribute to the life and work of Jenn, who made significant contributions to the field of space science and space weather in her regrettably abbreviated career.

The submission deadline is 28th February, but we aim to publish relevant research much quicker. The submission page is open now.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your submission.

Many Thanks,
Maria on behalf of the editors:
Denny Oliveira; Mirko Piersanti; Lívia Alves; W Kent Tobiska; Xochitl Blanco-Cano; Katariina Nykyri; Maria-Theresia Walach
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