Mexican researcher Victor Velasco at the Geophysics Institute of the National Autonomous University (UNAM) Monday made several proposals for aerospace cooperation between Mexico and Russia.

They include permanently monitoring solar activity and the use of different satellite platforms to monitor climate change and extreme weather events.

Velasco forwarded the proposals after being appointed representative to the Aerospace Network established between UNAM and Russian scientific research centers and universities.

The Mexican researcher said extreme weather was the result of solar activity and its affect on the heliosphere, the region of space right around the sun, which also influences all the celestial bodies within it.

The researcher is known for his work in monitoring variations in cosmic galactic radiation, which led him to correctly predict, in conjunction with Russian researchers, that there would be a new season of increased solar-generated relativistic proton activity on earth in 2012.

Russian institutions taking part in the Mexico-Russia Aerospace Network include the Cosmonaut Academy, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Moscow State University, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Aviation Institute and the Electro-Mechanics Institute of Roscosmos (the Russian Federal Space Agency).