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2001 CEDAR-SCOSTEP Workshop Agenda

17 - 22 June 2001
Longmont, Colorado

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SCOSTEP Saturday, June 16, 2001

09:00-12:00 Opening Remarks
Approval of Agenda
Approval or modification of draft minutes from CY-2000 Bureau meeting
Secretary's Report
Report on ICSU Executive Committee Meeting, 18-20 Feb 2001
Questionnaire from ICSU Committee for Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR)
Reports by Leaders of Post-STEP Programs (S-RAMP, EPIC)
12:00-01:00 --- Lunch at NCAR provided by SCOSTEP ---
01:00-05:00 Reports by Leaders of Post-STEP Programs (PSMOS, ISCS)
Report from Long-Range Planning Committee (CAWSES)
Budget for 2002/2003
General Council Meeting Issues
STP-10/CEDAR-2001

 

SCOSTEP Sunday, June 17, 2001

07:30 AM Raintree Van leaves Raintree for NCAR Mesa Lab
08:30-12:00 Opening Remarks
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes of 1999 Meeting
President's Report
Scientific Secretary's Report
SCOSTEP's Porposed New Long-Range Program: "CAWSES"
12:00-01:00 --- Lunch at NCAR provided by SCOSTEP ---
01:00-05:30 Financial Matters: (Report for CY-2000, Projection for CY-2001, Proposed budgets for CY-2002 and 2003)
Reports from Post-STEP Programs (S-RAMP, PSMOS, EPIC, ISCS)
Adherent Representative (National) Reports (20 min with questions each)
Other Business
Next Meeting - Summer 2003 (included General Election)
05:30-07:30 Reception for General Meeting Participants and Accompaning Persons - Hosted by NCAR Director, Dr. Tim Killeen
07:30 PM Raintree Van leaves NCAR Mesa Lab for the Raintree

 

CEDAR Sunday, June 17, 2001

10:00-10:20 Introductions Rebecca Bishop (UTD)
Dr. Sunanda Basu (NSF)
Dr. Cassandra Fesen, CEDAR Chair (UTD)
10:20-10:40 --- Break --- -
10:40-11:20
11:20-12:00
An Overview of the MLTI
Middle Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Dr. Dan Marsh (HAO/NCAR)
Dr. Tim Kane (PSU)
12:00-01:15 Lunch on own at nearby restaurants or Twin Peaks Mall -
01:15-02:00 The TIMED Mission Dr. Sam Yee (APL/JHU)
02:00-02:25 Observations of gravity waves in the mesopause region from an OH all-sky imager at Starfire Optical Range Feng Li (U IL)
02:25-02:45 --- Break --- -
02:45-03:10 Mid-Latitude Sporadic E Layers and Associated Quasi-Periodic Irregularities Rob Wilson (Clemson U)
03:10-03:35 Ionospheric plasma simulations of meteor trails Lars Dyrud (BU)
03:35-03:55 --- Break --- -
03:55-04:20 Ionospheric Dusty Plasmas Dr. Lynette Gelinas (Cornell)
04:20-04:45 Dynamics and Phenomena of the Polar Stratosphere and Mesosphere Andy Gerrard (SUNY Morrisville) Presented by Dr. Tim Kane (PSU)
04:45-05:30 Panel Discussion -
~05:30 PM Bus from Raintree to Rogers Grove (1.2 miles) -
06:00-09:00 Student Social at Rogers Grove park for students, recent graduates and invited guests. Pizza dinner will be provided (NO ALCOHOL) -
09:00-09:30 Bus from Rogers Grove to Raintree and Williams Village Dormitories -

 

Monday, June 18, 2001

08:00-08:30 Welcomes and Introductions:
from the president of SCOSTEP
from NSF
from NCAR
from the chair of CEDAR
Introduction of students by institution
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Marvin Geller
Margaret Leinen
Timothy Killeen
Cassandra Fesen
R. Bishop (student rep)
08:30-09:30 Keynote Talk: What We Need to Know about Solar Variability Eugene Parker (USA)
09:30-10:00 Programmatics #1: Preliminary Report on the Decadal Survey of Solar and Space Physics Lou Lanzerotti (USA)
10:00-10:25 --- Break --- -
10:30-18:00 SCOSTEP Talks (see below)
CEDAR Talks/Workshops (see below)
Front Range AM, Summit PM
Summit AM, other PM
06:00-09:00 Evening Poster Session #1 and Reception Silverthorne, Apache Group

 

SCOSTEP Monday, June 18, 2001

10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
Topical: Solar Activity Affecting the Space Environment
Topical: Solar Irradiance Variations: Measurements and Results
J.-L. Bougeret* (France)
C. Frohlich (Switzerland)
11:30-11:45 Contrib: Magneto-acoustico-gravity (MAG) waves generated by explosive events in the solar atmosphere I.S. Veselovsky (Russia)
11:45-12:00 Contrib: Possible association of CMEs to the onset of solar rapid spikes observed at submm-waves P. Kaufmann (Brazil)
12:00-1:30 --- Lunch --- -
01:30-02:30 Tutorial #1: A Unified View of Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections K. Shibata* (Japan)
02:30-03:00 Topical: Triumphs and Shortcomings in Observations of the Solar Corona D. Michels (USA)
03:00-03:15 Contrib: Secular and cycle variations of the IMF Bz component and some associated geophysical effects V. N. Obridko (Russia)
03:15-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-6:00 SCOSTEP Long-Range Plan (CAWSES) chair: M. Geller (USA)

 

CEDAR Monday, June 18, 2001

10:30-11:10 CEDAR Prize Lecture: Modeling Wave Driven Non-linear Flow Oscillations: The Terrestrial QBO, and a Solar Analog Hans Mayr (GSFC)
11:10-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-11:40
11:40-12:00
Report on Student Workshop
Report on TIMED
Report on CEDAR DB
Report from NSF
Rebecca Bishop (UTD)
Jeng-Hwa Yee (JHU/APL)
Peter Fox (HAO/NCAR)
Sunanda Basu (NSF)
12:00-01:15 --- Lunch --- -
01:15-3:15 Equinox transition in MLT region (Liu/Taylor)
Arecibo Friends (Gonzalez)
Front Range
Apache Group
03:15-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-06:00 LTCS (Johnson/Azeem)
Topside (Noto/Kerr)
Front Range
Fairview

 

Tuesday, June 19, 2001

08:30-09:30 Tutorial #2: Influence of 11-year solar variation on atmospheric circulation K. Labitzke (Germany)
09:30-10:00 Topical: Secular Variability of Atomic H Column Abandance in the Exosphere at Arecibo R. Kerr (USA)
10:00-10:25 --- Break --- -
10:30-11:00 Topical: Solar-Atmospheric Coupling by Electrons : Observational and Computational Evidence for Effects On the Climate of the Middle Atmosphere L. Callis (USA)
11:00-11:30 Topical: Involvement of Solar Activity in Long-Term Changes of the Stratosphere Murry Salby
11:30-12:00 Topical: Long Term Changes in Ionosphere at Low Latitudes H. Chandra (India)
12:00-18:00 Lunch
SCOSTEP Talks (see below)
CEDAR Workshops (see below)
-
Summit
-
06:30-10:00
05:00-07:00
CSSC Meeting
SCOSTEP Bureau Meeting
Hunter's Pub and Restaurant
Navajo

 

12:00-17:00 PM SCOSTEP Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Long-Term Variability of Earth's Climate, Including Solar Influences
Summit
Chair K. Labitzke (Germany)
12:00-01:30 --- Lunch --- -
01:30-02:30 Tutorial #3: Solar Influences on Global Climate Change and the IPCC Report Joanna Haigh (UK)
02:30-03:00
03:00-03:30
Topical: Detecting change in the lower middle atmosphere
Topical: Ozone Variability in Chemical Climate Model
W. Randel (USA)
M. Takahashi (Japan)
03:30-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-04:30 Topical: Cosmic Rays and Cloud Formation H. Svensmark (Denmark)
04:30-05:00 Topical: Topical: Modeling the Upper Atmosphere Response to Increasing Greenhouse Gases R. Roble (USA)
05:00-7:00 SCOSTEP Bureau Meeting Navaho

 

CEDAR Workshops Tuesday, June 19, 2001

12:00-01:15 --- Lunch --- -
01:15-3:15 Transient Optical Emissions (Heavner/Pasko/Taylor)
Jicamarca Amigos (Farley)
Front Range
Fairview
03:15-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-6:00 Airglow and the dynamics responsible for periodic signatures (Meyer/Marsh)
Problems Relating to Ionosphere Modeling at Low latitudes (PRIMAL) (Fesen/Hysell/Anderson)
Front Range
-
Fairview

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2001

08:30-09:30 Tutorial #4: Electrodynamic Coupling in the Equatorial Ionosphere R. Heelis (USA)
09:30-09:55 Topical: The Equatorial Ionosphere-Thermosphere System B. Fejer (USA)
09:55-10:20 --- Break --- -
10:20-10:45 Topical: Dynamics and Electrodynamics over Africa: Results from the Ivory Coast A. Kobea (Ivory Coast)
10:45-11:10 Topical: Some Curious Things About Equatorial Spread-F M. Mendillo (USA)
11:10-11:35 Topical: Electrodynamics of the Low Latitude Ionosphere --- New Results from ROCSAT-1 C. H. Liu (Taiwan)
11:35-12:00 Topical: Radio Imaging of Soft Radar Targets R. Woodman (Peru)
12:00-18:00 Lunch
SCOSTEP Talks (see below)
CEDAR Workshops (see below)
-
Summit
-
6:00-9:00 Evening Poster Session #2 and Reception Silverthorne, Apache Group

 

PM SCOSTEP Wednesday, June 20, 2001

12:00-01:30 --- Lunch --- -
01:30-02:30
02:30-03:00
03:00-03:30
Tutorial #5 Dynamics of the Equatorial Middle Atmosphere
Topical: Equatorial Waves Observed in Airglow
Topical: Equatorial waves in the MLT
F. Sassi/R. Garcia (USA)
H. Takahashi (Brazil)
S. Gurubaran (India)
03:30-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-04:15 Contrib: Coordinated Optical and Radar studies of the neutral and electrodynamical coupling of the Mesosphere and the Lower thermosphere R. Sridharan (India)
04:15-04:30 Contrib: Quasi-5-day wave as a result of nonlinear interaction between the 4- and 16-day waves A. Pogoreltsev (UK)
04:30-04:45 Contrib: MLT winds and tides over Poker Flat, Alaska (65.1 N, 147.5 W) during 1999-2000 P. Kishore (Japan/India)

 

CEDAR Workshops Wednesday, June 20, 2001

12:00-01:15 --- Lunch --- -
01:15-3:15 GIFT (Anderson/Fuller-Rowell/Sojka)
New polar science/RAO (Conde)
Front Range
Fairview
03:15-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-6:00 Input for decadal study: Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Atmosphere (Kelley/Fuller-Rowell/Foster)
(Continued:) New polar science/RAO (Conde)
Front Range
-
Fairview

 

Thursday, June 21, 2001

08:30-09:30
09:30-10:00
10:00-10:07
10:07-10:10
Tutorial #6: Physics and Chemistry of the Mesopause Region
Topical: Equinox Transition: Observations and Interpretation
Student Poster Prize Winners
New CEDAR Science Steering Committee Members
A. Smith (USA)
G. Shepherd* (Canada)
A. Richmond
C. Fesen
10:10-10:25 --- Break --- -
10:30-11:00 Topical: Global Scale Tidal Variability and the Coupling of Tides and Planetary Waves N. Mitchell
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
Topical: Gravity Wave Coupling into the Middle Atmosphere
Topical: The Science of ALOMAR
S. Eckermann (Australia/USA)
E. Thrane (Norway)
12:00-18:00 Lunch
SCOSTEP Talks (see below)
CEDAR Workshops (see below)
-
Summit
-
6:00-7:00 Bus and carpools to Anheuser Busch Brewery, Ft Collins
Exit 271 on I-25
7:00-9:00 Tours of brewery, pizza, gift shop
-
9:00-10:00 Bus and carpools from Anheuser Busch Brewery
-

 

PM SCOSTEP Thursday, June 21, 2001

12:00-01:30 --- Lunch --- -
01:30-02:30 Tutorial #7: Migrating and Non-migrating Tides in the MLT Region S. Miyahara (Japan)
02:30-03:00 Topical: Intercomparison of Temperature Measurements made by Multiple Optical Techniques M. Shepherd* (Canada)
03:00-03:30 Topical: A Global Distribution of Stratospheric Gravity Waves and Sporadic E Layers using GPS Occultation Data (GPS/MET) T. Tsuda (Japan)
03:30-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-04:30 Topical: New Arctic Instrumentation: A Longitudinal Radar Chain Y. Portnyagin (Russia)
04:30-05:00 Topical: Recent Multi-Instrument Mesopause Region Measurements made at Antarctica M. Tsutsumi (Japan)
05:00-05:15 Contrib: Planetary waves in the Northern hemisphere mesosphere and lower thermosphere during September- October 1994 R. Lieberman (USA)
05:15-05:30 Contrib: Seasonal Variations of the Solar Tides in the MLT: MF Radar Observations and Models (GSWM, CMAM) A. Manson (Canada)
05:30-05:45 Contrib: Variability of the mesopause region prevailing wind and semidiurnal tide over Central Europe during 1980 - 2000 C. Jacobi (Germany)
05:45-06:00 Contrib: Ionospheric F2-Layer Equinoctial Transitions and Atomic Oxygen A. Mikhailov (Russia)

 

CEDAR Workshops Thursday, June 21, 2001

12:00-01:15 --- Lunch ---
CSSC Lunch
-
Blue Spruce
01:15-3:15 Meteors (Mathews/Zhou)
HLPS (Valladares/Sojka)
ISR World Day Scheduling (van Eyken)
Front Range
Fairview
Apache Group
03:15-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-6:00 Polar mesosphere dynamics (Duck)
PSAT (plasma structures and turbulence) (Mishin)
Tomography (Kamalabadi/Bust/Semeter)
Space Weather Month (Valladares/Burns)
Front Range
Fairview
Silverthorne
Apache Group

 

Friday, June 22, 2001

08:30-09:30
09:30-10:00
Tutorial #8: The Solar Origins of Space Weather
New Techniques and Facilities for Space Weather Research
R. Schwenn* (Germany)
R. Behnke (USA)
10:00-10:25 --- Break --- -
10:30-11:00 Topical: Mid-Latitude Space Weather: Storm Effects J. Foster (USA)
11:00-11:30 Topical: Response of Relativistic Electrons at Synchronous Orbit to Solar Wind and Magnetosphere Drivers R. McPherron (USA)
11:30-12:00 Topical: Polar Aeronomy: Where the Field Lines End J. Thayer* (USA)
12:00-18:00 Lunch
SCOSTEP Talks (see below)
CEDAR Workshops (see below)
-
Summit
-

 

PM SCOSTEP Friday, June 22, 2001

12:00-01:30 --- Lunch --- -
01:30-02:30 Tutorial #9: Space Weather Energetics H. Koskinen (Finland)
02:30-03:00 Topical: Creation of trapped energetic particle collections in the magnetosphere and their effects on spacecraft D. Baker (USA)
03:00-03:15 Contrib: Study of equator-ward transmission of polar disturbances --Data assimilative approach J.-S. Guo (China)
03:15-03:30 Contrib: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Instability for substorm generation W. Lyatsky (Russia)
03:30-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-04:30 Topical: Predictions of Solar-Geophysical Activity at NOAA-SEC T. Detman (USA)
04:30-05:00 Topical: The Complicated Ionospheric Currents Responsible for Large Ground Effects of Space Weather in Northern Europe R. Pirjola (Finland)
05:00-05:15 Contrib: Horizontal coupling between American, European and Asian ionospheres during the May 15, 1997 magnetic storm D. Blagoveshchensky (Russia)
05:15-05:30 Contrib: Tracking transient events through geosynchronous orbit and in high-latitude magnetosphere G. Korotova (Russia)
05:30-05:45 Contrib: Identification of plasma density structures in the high-latitude ionosphere using multi-instrument ground-based observations J. Watermann (Denmark)

 

CEDAR Workshops Friday, June 22, 2001

12:00-01:15 --- Lunch --- -
01:15-3:15 M-I Coupling (Zhu/Ruohoniemi/Greenwald)
TIMED/CEDAR (Yee/Solomon)
Fairview
Front Range
03:15-04:00 --- Break --- -
04:00-6:00 Input for decadal study: Theory, Computation and Data Exploration (Schunk)
High latitude Electrodynamics (Richmond/Ruohoniemi)
TIMED/CEDAR Data Support (Fox/Yee/Emery)
Front Range
-
Fairview
Apache Group