Training Session

6–10 November 2017

SUNDAY (5 Nov.):

18:30-21:00 Ice Breaker

MONDAY (6 Nov.):

08.15-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:30 Opening

09:30-10:00 Ionosphere-An introduction (B. Reinisch)

10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea

10:30-11:30 IRI-Introduction and open problems (D. Bilitza)

11:30-12:00 IRIweb and related services (D. Bilitza)

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Forming teams and assigning research tasks

14:30-15:30 Team work

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea

16:00-17:30 Team work

09:00-10:00 Ionsonde measurements (B. Reinisch)

10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea

10:30-11:30 Real-Time IRI (I. Galkin)

11:30-12:30 Overview FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 (J.-Y. Liu)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Access to ionosonde data (GIRO) and IRTAM (I. Galkin)

14:30-15:30 Team work

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea

16:00-17:30 Team work

TUESDAY (7 Nov.):

WEDNESDAY (8 Nov.):

09:00-10:00 GNSS data and ionospheric studies (A. Krankowski)

10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea

10:30-11:30 COSMIC/GNSS ionospheric studies (Charles Lin)

11:30-12:00 Plasmasphere modelling (S. Watanabe)

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Access to GNSS data (A. Krankowski)

14:30-15:30 Team work

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea

16:00-17:30 Team work

THURSDAY (9 Nov.):

09:00 - 10:00 Scintillations (C. Rino)

10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea

10:30 – 11:30 Ion densities and plasma temperatures (V. Truhlik)

11:30 – 12:30 FPMU data for ionospheric studies (J. Minow)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Matlab tools for scintillation studies (C. Rino)

14:30-15:30 Team work

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea

16:00-17:30 Team work

FRIDAY (10 Nov.):

09:00-10:00 Incoherent scatter radar (S.-R. Zhang)

10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea

10:30-11:30 Coupling between ionosphere and thermosphere at low latitudes (S. Watanabe)

11:30-12:00 Access to incoherent scatter data (S.-R. Zhang)

12:00-14:00 Lunch/ Group photo

14:00-15:30 Team work

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea

16:00-17:30 Team work and test presentations

Language of instruction

English

Lecturers:

Dieter Bilitza (George Mason University, USA, and Heliophysics Science Division, NASA, USA)

- IRI model and open problems

Jann-Yenq Liu (Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Taiwan)

- COSMIC and other GNSS satellites

Bodo Reinisch (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA)

- Ionosondes and electron density profile

Ivan Galkin (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA)

- IRI Real-Time and GIRO ionosonde network

Vladimir Truhlik (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic)

- Modeling plasma temperatures and ion composition

Shigeto Watanabe (Hokkaido University, Japan)

- Coupling between ionosphere and thermosphere

Shunrong Zhang (MIT, Millstone Hill, USA)

- Incoherent scatter radar technique and data access

Andrzej Krankowski (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland)

- GNSS data and ionospheric studies

Charles Rino (Boston College, USA)

- Scintillation

Joseph Minow (NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, USA.)

- FPMU data for ionospheric studies

Charles Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

- COSMIC/GNSS ionospheric studies

The lecture and computer rooms are located at the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, within the same campus of the National Central University. This training facility is at about 5-10 minute walking distance from the Guest House of NCU, where students will be accommodated. Fast Internet (Wi-Fi for laptops and cable for the desktops in the computer room) will be available at the workshop venue.