2018 Workshop: Ionospheric Disturbance Instrumentation
Description: This workshop will be a forum for the CEDAR community to put forward its ideas regarding the instrumentation that is required to enable prediction of ionospheric disturbances. The community will be asked to address five questions:
1) What are the goals of predicting ionospheric disturbances? 2) What gaps in understanding must be filled to enable predictive simulations? 3) What modeling advances are needed for prediction? 4) What observations are necessary to provide the basis for understanding and modeling? 5) What instrumentation is necessary to provide those observations?
We will be making dynamic notes here
1) What are the goals of predicting ionospheric disturbances?
Rob Steenburgh - NOAA
Jade Morton
2) What gaps in understanding must be filled to enable predictive simulations?
Dave Hysell
Hyunju Connor
3) What modeling advances are needed for prediction and specification?
Tomoko Matsuo
Tzu Wei Fang
Joe Huba
4) What observations are necessary to provide the basis for understanding and modeling?
Farzad Kamalabadi
5) What instrumentation is necessary to provide those observations?
Bill Bristow
Joe Malins
Asti Bhatt
Seebany Datta-Barua
Diana Loucks
Discussion topics: Enabling technologies (Ground and Sats and synergies)
The free energy released into the geospace system through solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere interactions produces ionospheric variability across a broad spectrum of scales. Developing a complete predictive understanding of this physics addresses Key Science Goal 2 of the NRC Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics. In addition, since the ionosphere is directly responsible for many space weather effects, characterization and prediction of ionospheric disturbances addresses the goals of the OSTP National Space Weather Action Plan.
Developing observation and instrumentation strategies addressing key unknowns for Geospace Systems Studies is a CEDAR strategic thrust.