2008 Workshop:IT Challenges Based on Continuous Observations Through the IPY
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I-T Challenges Based on Continuous Observations Through the IPY (or PRIMO II)
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Location
Davos
Date/Time
1030-1230 Saturday 21 June 2008
Conveners
Format of the Workshop
Scheduled Short Presentations with Round Table discussion.
Duration
2 hours (default)
Estimated attendance
25-30
Conflicts with other workshops
Any ISR sessions, especially PFISR, IPY, EGY, or IHY.
Special technology requests
A real time link to the PFISR radar in Alaska. Craig Heinselman of SRI would like to have this running all week.
Forum
Comments, Questions, Discussion Forum
Brief Initial Description
The International Polar Year (IPY) began on 1 March 2007. Starting on that day was an extremely aggressive ISR observational campaign whose objective was to run the European EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) and the NSF Poker Flat ISR (PFISR) continuously while ISRs at both Sondrestrom (Greenland) and Millstone Hill (Massachusetts) would run twice per month for 32 hours on each occasion. With the first year of observations completed, the stage is set for a particularly exciting community-wide, observation-model-theory challenge.
The IPY occurs during a period of possibly weak geomagnetic activity; hence, the conditions are ideal to investigate how coupling from the lower atmospheric regions affects the ionosphere and thermosphere (I-T). This is an invitation for all I-T modelers to get involved in modeling the IPY, forecasting the remaining IPY period, and comparing their results with others, both models and observations. In fact, the first year geomagnetic records confirm there were no major storms, but that there was almost continuous low-level geomagnetic activity!
This workshop will promote a PRIMO format in that all modelers and observers including, but not limited to, the above-mentioned ISRs are relevant participants. At this workshop the observing community will provide an overview of the first 12 months of IPY including an exposé of the unexpected. The modelers will be given the opportunity to present their early analysis of the IPY year-long observations. The open workshop format is then to take input and debate from those present. Although focused on the unique high latitude IPY aspect, the relevance to eGY and IHY is appreciated and not excluded. To get involved and get a quick look format of the ISR data sets, contact Jan Sojka at sojka@cass.usu.edu or one of the other organizers.
For students: Several international science communities agreed to hold an intensive coordinated science campaign beginning on 1 March 2007 to run for at least one year. In fact, this is the 50th anniversary of the 1957/58 International Geophysical Year (IGY). The current program is referred to as the International Polar Year (IPY).
This CEDAR workshop brings the scientists of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere together to discuss their IPY findings. The center piece of the observational program was that two incoherent scatter radars, one at Poker Flat, Alaska and the other at Longyearbyen, Svalbard ran continuously for the entire IPY year. This is a truly unique scientific effort in that ISR's duty cycles are usually only a few weeks per year.
Scientifically these observations contain definitive information about ionospheric climate and weather, that can be separated, and of such quality it establishes the solar minimum high latitude ionosphere status for modelers. This brings us to the fun part of the workshop, in fact, the part you want to get involved in. How well do our many ionospheric models simulate this IPY ionosphere?
The workshop is designed to have an open forum discussion around a few talks that should generate discussion. The topics are not esoteric aspects of cutting edge research, but rather how good is our basic understanding of high latitude ionospheric physics as captured or simulated by models. The parameter we are discussing are basic, i.e., density, temperature, height of the ionosphere.
Workshop Summary
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