COST ACTION ES1005 TOSCA (www.tosca-cost.eu), the FP7 collaborative project SOLID (projects.pmodwrc.ch/solid), and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, www.ictp.it), organized the 2nd TOSCA School on “Solar variability and climate response” at ICTP, Trieste, Italy, from October 13 - 17, 2014.
The school brought together 34 young scientists from 18 countries for a one-week training course on the global understanding of the complex and controversial role of solar variability in climate change. Various topics were covered, including the basic processes (solar, heliospheric, and atmospheric physics) with emphasis on the climate response, diagnostic techniques, errors and uncertainties, needed research, and socio-economic aspects.