Earth-affecting Solar Transients

Editorial: Earth-affecting Solar Transients.- A Study of the Earth-Affecting CMEs of Solar Cycle 24.- Understanding the Internal Magnetic Field Configurations of ICMEs Using More than 20 Years of Wind Observations.- Investigation of the Geoeffectiveness of Disk-Centre Full-Halo Coronal Mass Ejections.- The Interaction of Successive Coronal Mass Ejections: A Review.- On the Collision Nature of Two Coronal Mass Ejections: A Review.- Deflection and Rotation of CMEs from Active Region 11158.- Earth-Affecting Coronal Mass Ejections Without Obvious Low Coronal Signatures.- Relation of CME Speed and Magnetic Helicity in CME Source Regions on the Sun during the Early Phase of Solar Cycles 23 and 24.- A New Solar Imaging System for Observing High-Speed Eruptions: Solar Dynamics Doppler Imager (SDDI).- On Flare-CME Characteristics from Sun to Earth Combining Remote-Sensing Image Data with In Situ Measurements Supported by Modeling.- Comprehensive Analysis of the Geoeffective Solar Event of 21 June 2015: Effects on the Magnetosphere, Plasmasphere, and Ionosphere Systems.- Origin and Ion Charge State Evolution of Solar Wind Transients during 4¿-¿7 August 2011.- Interplanetary and Geomagnetic Consequences of Interacting CMEs of 13¿-¿14 June 2012.- Characterization of the Complex Ejecta Measured In Situ on 19¿-¿22 March 2001 by Six Different Methods.- Study of the Geoeffectiveness and Galactic Cosmic-Ray Response of VarSITI-ISEST Campaign Events in Solar Cycle 24.- Intense Geomagnetic Storms Associated with Coronal Holes Under the Weak Solar-Wind Conditions of Cycle 24.- Statistical Analysis of Solar Events Associated with Storm Sudden Commencements over One Year of Solar Maximum During Cycle 23: Propagation from the Sun to the Earth and Effects.- Estimation of Reconnection Flux Using Post-eruption Arcades and Its Relevance to Magnetic Clouds at 1 AU.- Comparison of CME and ICME Structures Derived from Remote-Sensing and In Situ Observations.- CME

Dr. Jie Zhang is professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is an expert on solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
Dr. Xóchitl Blanco-Cano is professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her research areas are the physics of the solar wind and space plasmas.

Dr. Nariaki Nitta is senior staff physicist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. His interests include transient phenomena on the Sun and their possible impacts on the heliosphere.
Dr. Srivastava Nandita is professor at Udaipur Solar Observatory, India. Her research focuses on space weather, coronal mass ejections, and filament eruptions.
Dr. Cristina Mandrini is professor at the Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, CONICET-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is working on the emergence, evolution and interplanetary impact of the solar magnetic field.