Interplanetary Disturbances and General Space Weather Problems

Bruce T. Tsurutani

RISH, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calif. Inst. Tech., Pasadena, CA

Various interplanetary disturbances, both those that occur primarily during the solar maximum phase and those that occur primarily in the declining phase, will be discussed. In particular ICMEs (MCs), their upstream shocks and sheaths, CIRs, high speed streams and their embedded Alfven waves will be related to resultant magnetic storms, supersubstorms, ozone destruction and relativistic electron acceleration (not necessarily in that order). In conclusion 8 only partially answered or totally unanswered questions concerning space weather and magnetic reconnection will be discussed.