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2-D and 3-D remote sensing across viewpoints (both near-Earth and elsewhere).  That sort of session would focus on the interplay between future remote sensing and modeling, with an eye to what new remote sensing measurements might be needed to improve forecasts.  That’s sort of a perennial suite of topics, and bridging the gap between corona and Earth via tracking is something we’ve all been thinking about a long time. But there happens to be some great stuff in the literature right now, and it would be helpful to construct a session that explicitly connects the strategic thinking of the science and SpWx forecasting communities.

There has been a lot of scientific work done recently on the importance of remote sensing (mostly in visible light) from new vantages (L1, L4, polar measurements), both from the standpoint of gaining physical understanding and also from the standpoint of direct event tracking to improve forecasting.  As an example, a great review of these topics, and some new insights, can be found in Wageesh Mishra’s recent dissertation (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.09879.pdf), published just a couple of weeks ago.  The solar-polar scientific community has some great insights to bring about how a polar vantage (even in the context of a scientific flyby) could affect both scientific and predictive modeling of CMEs and/or CIRs. With PUNCH approaching, direct CME tracking Sun-to-Earth will become feasible and of course that’s on my mind (communicating the science mission’s capability to the SpWx community); but also it is not clear just how well the SpWx community’s needs are understood by the scientific groups that are developing new mission concepts.  Cross-pollination is called for, and a mix of invited speakers could make for a pretty stimulating session.