1st CREDO Visegrad Workshop 2024

SpES, studying solar-terrestrial physics from a global Earth science perspective

Jan 17, 2024, 4:30 PM

10m

Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow Poland

The CREDO Collaboration Meeting

Speaker

José Manuel Vaquero (Universidad de Extremadura)

Description

In this contribution, we present to the CREDO community the SpES (Space & Earth Sciences) research group of the University of Extremadura, which is a member of the CREDO consortium. This research group attempts to make significant advances in Earth sciences using a global perspective. Its main research areas are Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Climatology, Meteorology, and History and Teaching Geosciences.

This research group has worked intensively over the last two decades to provide the international community with a better reconstruction of solar activity over the last four centuries from documentary sources [1-3]. Currently, it is responsible for guarding the HASO (Historical Archive of Sunspot Observations). In addition, it has demonstrated the ability to analyze and diagnose large solar-terrestrial events of the past such as the intense geomagnetic storms of 1870 [4] and 1903 [5]. In particular, it has used statistical analyzes to demonstrate that, from a space weather point of view, we do not expect events significantly larger than those already observed [6-7] .

Finally, we would like to highlight the interest of SpES in history [8], teaching [9] and the dissemination of Earth and Space sciences, where the interest of this research group in the CREDO experiment is clearly manifested [10].

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2. A. Muñoz-Jaramillo, J.M. Vaquero. 2019. Nature Astronomy 3, 205. DOI: 10.1038/s41550-018-0638-2
3. R. Arlt, J.M. Vaquero. 2020. Living Reviews in Solar Physics 17, 1. DOI: 10.1007/s41116-020-0023-y
4. J.M. Vaquero et al. 2008. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, A08230. DOI: 10.1029/2007JA0129431870
5. H. Hayakawa et al. 2020. Astrophysical Journal Letters 897, L10. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab6a18
6. F.J. Acero et al. 2018. Astrophysical Journal 853, 80. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa406
7. F.J. Acero et al. 2018. Geophysical Research Letters 45, 9435. DOI: 10.1029/2018GL079676
8. J.M. Vaquero. 2017. History of Geo- and Space Sciences 8, 53. DOI: 10.5194/hgss-8-53-2017
9. I. Tovar, J.M. Vaquero. 2023. The Physics Teacher 61, 100. DOI: 10.1119/5.0058890
10. P. Homola et al. 2020. Symmetry 12, 1835. DOI:10.3390/sym12111835