This report assesses the current status of research relating the origin at the Sun, the evolution through the inner heliosphere
and the effects on the inner heliosphere of the interplanetary counterparts of coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). The signatures
of ICMEs measured by
in-situ spacecraft are determined both by the physical processes associated with their origin in the low corona, as observed by space-borne
coronagraphs, and by the physical processes occurring as the ICMEs propagate out through the inner heliosphere, interacting
with the ambient solar wind. The solar and
in-situ observations are discussed as are efforts to model the evolution of ICMEs from the Sun out to 1 AU.
Keywords coronal mass ejections - magnetic clouds - solar wind - interplanetary shocks