title: Research needed to improve solar flare and particle forecasting.
abstract: We briefly review the status of our physical understanding of energy buildup and release in transient active phenomena on the Sun. Such understanding is necessary in order to improve our capabilities to predict such events and their effects in interplanetary space and near-Earth environment. We then discuss the research that we consider is needed for such improvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The University of Alabama in Huntsville 35899, USA.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Machado
mesh_terms: D001256:Astronomy / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D012106:Research; D019445:Solar Activity