Space Weather Journal

The American Geophysical Union is gearing up to launch what it says will be the first journal devoted to space weather and its impacts on telecommunications, electric power, satellite navigation, and other technical systems. Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications will feature peer-reviewed articles, political and industrial news, letters, and opinion pieces. The journal’s founding editor is Louis Lanzerotti, a solar and space physicist who, in the course of his 37 years at Bell Labs (now part of Lucent Technologies), has worked on both unclassified and classified telecommunications systems. “I don’t think anyone can precisely define what space weather is. I define it with more of an engineering slant than others might,” he says. Starting later this year, Space Weather will be published frequently online, with print versions put out quarterly. For submissions, subscriptions, and other information, see http://www.agu.org/journals/spaceweather/ .