Solar eruptive events such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and associated shock waves are the most frequent drivers of disturbed space weather conditions.
Because both flares and CMEs emit radio emission, solar radio observations provide significant extra information for studying eruptive events and related space weather research.
Radio observations bring information about, the configuration of flare-CME source regions including the position of open magnetic field lines and their connectivity to the Earth, the energy release, the particle acceleration and transport, and the origin of solar energetic particle (SEP) events.
Radio observations are also unique means of tracking CME-driven shock waves all the way from the low corona through the inner heliosphere, and they can provide information on the ambient coronal parameters.
Moreover, radio observations of pulsars and compact radio sources may be used to estimate properties of the CME propagating in the Heliosphere. The magnetic field therein, can be estimated using polarised sources, the speed and density of the solar wind may be measured using compact radio sources. Finally, radio observations can be used to determine small scale properties of the Ionosphere.
This session aims to promote the importance of radio observations in space weather studies and introduce them to the wider heliospheric/space weather communities. The session is open to all Heliophysics studies that exploit solar radio observations and to all studies of radio observations relevant to solar physics and space weather.