State Key Laboratory of Space Weather (SKSW), Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is one of key laboratories of State. The lab hosts a group of excellent young scientists, among which there are 75% people with Ph.D degree. The whole group is trying their best to build the laboratory into space weather research group with world fame.

Main Research Areas
The main research area of our lab is the process study of space weather in solar-terrestrial space -including Solar Coronal Process, Interplanetary Process of Solar Storms and Their Modeling, The Global Dynamical Process of the Earth's Magnetosphere, Ionopsheric Weather and Observation, Mesophere and its Responses.

The main research contents involve:

understanding the transfer of the huge energy and mass released from the sun to the geospace, modeling the corresponding space environment of the earth and prediction methods by basing on the basic process of solar-terrestrial physics; designing and undertaking engineering projects according to the national needs..

Our lab is devoted to the study of adverse space weather, linkage variation of solar-terrestrial coupling in order to achieve creative results; to the establishment of dynamical models for various spatial layers in order to construct the coupling model and synthetic forecasting method of adverse space weather.

Main Tasks
The main research tasks that our lab is undertaking include: Corona Process of Solar Storm, Transmitting Process & Research of Pattern for Interplanetary Solar Storm, Geospace Storm and Global Kinetics, Observation and Research for Disturbance of Ionosphere and Thermosphere, Observation and Research for Photochemical Process Middle and High layer Atmosphere and so forth.

Research Achievements
Presently, our lab are undertaking some important national projects such as the National Major Project “Process of adverse disturbances in solar-terrestrial space and its effects on human activities”, National key project “The global change of the earth's magnetosphere and its effects” and about 20 other National Natural Science Foundation Projects. Our lab is also the main proponent of the National Major Scientific Projects “Meridian Project”, “Double Star Exploration Project” and “Cooperative Star Project of Asian-Pacific”.