Objectives: Develop advanced understanding of the basic physical processes acting in the Heliosphere,
its different regions and their interactions; understand how to study them with satellites and with groundbased facilities.: • Overview of the Heliosphere and its different regions • Solar interior and solar variability • Solar atmosphere: structure, heating and generation of the solar wind; solar activity and solar transients (flares, CMEs, ...); important physical processes (reconnection, acceleration, ...) • Solar wind and solar-terrestrial disturbances: generation and propagation; turbulence • Near Earth’s environment and its couplings; phenomenological description (magnetosphere, ionosphere, ...); physical processes (adiabatic invariants, reconnection, ...); interaction with the solar wind; magnetosphere/ionosphere/atmosphere coupling; global electric circuit • Other bodies of the solar system and their interaction with the solar wind • Societal effects: space weather and space climate • Basics of space plasma instrumentation and techniques • Archives and virtual observatories
