2013 Workshop: International space weather and climate

This workshop is directed toward strategic development and deployment of scientific instrumentation for advancing research and understanding in the field. Incoherent scatter radars and other ground-based radio and optical instruments in the America Sector, sponsored by the US-NSF Geospace Facility program, have created an effective space weather and climate observing chain and have generated important discoveries shaping geospace research and application. Meanwhile, a recent major Chinese project for science and technology infrastructure provides comprehensive ground-based space weather observing in the Eastern Hemisphere, in particular along the 120E longitude. This Meridian Project consists of 15 observatories distributed from northern China to the South Pole. More recently, an innovative major facility for detecting the whole neutral atmosphere from surface up to 110 km is under development in Tibet, China as well. This detection is enabled by the Atmospheric Profiling Synthetic Observation System (APSOS) which combines ground-based lidars and THz radiometer remote sensing instruments. Based on existing capabilities and new developments, a globe-circling set of geospace observatories is envisioned, including stations in China, Russia and Australia, and extending along the 60W meridian along the Atlantic coasts of North and South America.

The purpose of this workshop is to inform and involve the CEDAR community in the opportunities associated with this new space weather and climate observing system. We invite our CEDAR colleagues and students to join this collaborative effort, define the science focus, propose campaigns, perform coordinated experiments, share observational datasets, and conduct joint data analysis. This workshop consists of a set of invited talks, and is open for general questions and discussion within the overall community.