The ISWI Webinar committee organizes and hosts virtual seminars on topics of interest to the community. The webinars are recorded and the playlist with the previous seminars, which will also include future sessions, can be accessed through the following links:
***NEW*** NASA page with links: https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/webinars/ISWI/ ***NEW***
UN page with links: https://www.unoosa.org/
YouTube playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaOqa4cng0GF3cKuj6Yz5kqG1BQ-Akkhr
The first ISWI Webinar of 2025, by Dr. Lucilla Alfonsi, is scheduled for January 29th, 2025 at 3 PM Central European Time (9 AM EST; 7:30 PM IST).
2025.
Speaker: Lucilla Alfonsi
Abstract:
AGATA started on 1 January 2025 and will be officially kicked off in late March 2025 (www.scar.org/science/agata/
The SRP aims to gather the scientific communities working on polar regions to answering the outstanding scientific questions within atmospheric and space physics over polar regions:
• How are different atmospheric layers coupled in the polar regions?
• How does the upper polar atmosphere respond to increased geomagnetic activity, including energy transfer from space?
• How does the whole polar atmosphere impact short- and long-term climate variations?As the central role of the polar regions in understanding the coupling between the magnetosphere and the neutral and the ionized atmosphere, answering these questions will not only have implications on the understanding of processes in the polar atmosphere, but it will also greatly improve our understanding of the global atmospheric dynamics, thus contributing to the development of large-scale whole atmosphere and climate models.
The webinar aims to open the discussion within the ISWI community to adopt best practices for collaboration and fruitful development also in view of the next IPY (2032-2033) opportunities.