SCOSTEP's new research program: “Variability of the sun and its terrestrial impact (VarSITI)”

The Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) has recently launched its latest five-year scientific program, “Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI).” This program is intended to last from 2014 through 2018. URSI is one of SCOSTEP's formal participating bodies, and provides a representative to the Bureau that governs SCOSTEP. Through this route, URSI was involved in the selection of the projects that formed the VarSITI program. The scientific goals of VarSITI are relevant to a wide range of URSI members, and in particular to those from Commissions E, F, G, H, and J. In this brief article, we wish to alert the URSI community to VarSITI and the component projects