This international meeting will examine the role of sustained, regular measurements in advancing our understanding of the Sun as a large-scale, time-varying system. Observers and theorists will come together to examine what has been learned from synoptic measurements, to identify scientific opportunities for the next decade, and to discuss technical approaches for exploiting these opportunities. Although the Sun varies on timescales from milliseconds to gigayears, this workshop will focus on phenomena in the solar atmosphere that develop over time (diachronically) on scales of hours to decades. It is expected that many of the discussions will address current problems in solar activity and how synoptic observations help solve those problems, and strategies for defining, collecting, combining, archiving, and interpreting sustained time series of imaged data.
About 80 national and international participants will attend the workshop, which will be held at the new Science and Visitor's Center at Sacramento Peak. This year's annual workshop will be centered around the theme of Synoptic Solar Physics. The workshop organization is supported by funding from NSF, NOAO, NSO, NASA, and the USAF Office of Scientific Research (including the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development and the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development).
K.S. Balasubramaniam, Jack Harvey, Doug Rabin