ISWI Newsletter - Vol.7 No.07
02 April 2015

Dear ISWI Participant:
Please note that all presentations delivered during the recent "2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather" are now available as individual pdf file -- see Item #7 below. Many thanks to Mitko, who maintains the ISWI-Secretariat Website, for putting these files on-line for anyone to download.

Material for ISWI Newsletter distribution is always welcomed by the editor, if it is related to space weather.

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George Maeda
Editor of ISWI Newsletter

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] March 1st 2015: "Electrodynamics Coupling between High and Low latitudes by using all the Existing Magnetometer Networks" - A Thesis For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Science in the Physics of Astronomy, by Ibrahim Fathy Abdalghafar Salem. Phd dissertation defended. (read it)

[2] "A Report from the UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather", American Astronomical Society, by Prof. Hans Haubold. (read it)

[3] Second announcement Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop Morelia, Mexico, 19-23 October 2015 (read it)

[4] Kyushu University website: Summary of "2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather" -- with photos, but explained in Japanese. (read it)

[5] Preview of a forthcoming paper: "United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative (UNBSSI) 1991-2012 and Beyond". Call for comments (read it)

[6] A Press Release concerning SAVNET, a member of the ISWI instrument array, and concerning the large 2011 earthquake in Peru. (read it)

[7] What's new at the Official Website of the UNOOSA -- "2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather." (read it)

[1] "Electrodynamics Coupling between High and Low latitudes by using all the Existing Magnetometer Networks" - A Thesis For the Degree of Doctor

Please see the first attached PDF

(Sent in by Christine Amory)

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[2] Prof. Hans Haubold "A Report from the UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather", American Astronomical Society.

Please see the second attached PDF
or go here

(Sent in by Hans Haubold)

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[3] Second announcement Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop Morelia, Mexico, 19-23 October 2015

Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:35:22 -0600

The workshop's website is now open for pre-registration:
www.sciesmex.unam.mx/workshop2015/

We have a Facebook profile:
https://www.facebook.com/remotesensingofinnerheliosphere

We announce the Third Remote Sensing of the Inner Heliosphere and Space Weather Applications Workshop to be hosted by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and held in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 19-23 October 2015. The workshop aims to gather experts from the various fields of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere, including white-light, EUV, and radio observation, together with modellers in order to tackle key outstanding science and space-weather operational issues, establish closer working relations, and devise the best ways to move the field forward as a whole. In addition, the science learned from remote-sensing observations is critical to improving our capabilities of space-weather forecasting.

The workshop aims to look at ways in which we can more easily and efficiently share and access the various types of data between individual groups and sub-communities and to officially launch the IPS Common Data Format v1.0 (IPSCDFv1.0) now in use. It also aims to allow investigations into ways in which we model the inner heliosphere looking at the advantages and disadvantages of the available modelling, updates on present and future remote-sensing capabilities, and investigating further the ways in which these data sets all complement each other and are necessary to gain knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical processes that occur within the inner heliosphere. These are critical processes that are key to both Heliophysics science as well as to space-weather operations and forecasting.

It is anticipated that the Workshop will focus on topics such as:
  • Stream and co-rotating interaction regions (SIRs/CIRs).
  • Numerical modelling of the inner heliosphere through comparison with remote-sensing observations.
  • The solar wind in the initiation phase/acceleration phase and its modelling.
  • Present and future observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS).
  • A look at CME events where remote-sensing observations failed us, how and why this occurred, and how might we improve upon this in the future.
  • The future of remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere
    • from IPS opportunities (MEXART, STEL, ORT, LOFAR, SKA, etc...) to Heliospheric Imager (HI) opportunities.
Key Dates
Abstract Deadline: Friday 28 August 2015
Early Registration: Friday 28 August 2015
Final Registration: Friday 25 September 2015
Workshop Dates: 19 to 23 October 2015

Venue: Unidad Michoacan, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) campus Morelia, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.

Core Organisers
J. Americo Gonzalez-Esparza
(SCIESMEX, UNAM, Mexico)
Mario M. Bisi (STFC RAL Space, UK)
Bernard V. Jackson (UCSD, USA)
David Webb (BC, USA)

Further information about registration, scientific program, financial support, etc., will be posted soon at our site.

(Sent in by Juan Americo Gonzalez Esparza)

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[4] Kyushu University website: Summary of "2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather"

With photos, but explained in Japanese (click here)

Please see the third attached PDF

(Sent in by H. Matsushita
a Phd candidate here at Kyushu University)

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[5] Preview of a forthcoming paper: "United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative (UNBSSI) 1991-2012 and Beyond"

Prof. Haubold makes these comments about this pdf:

The paper is scheduled to be published in an appropriate journal (currently under review).

The paper contains a LISTING of results of BSSI, IHY, ISWI 1991-2012.

The paper does NOT contain results of three Graz Symposia 2012-2014 and the 2015 UN/Japan Workshop.

You can distribute through the Newsletter even if the annual workshops 1991-2009 did not exclusively focus on space weather. In any case, comments are most welcome.

So have a look at it !

Please see the fourth attached PDF

(Sent in by Hans Haubold)

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[6] Press Release concerning SAVNET

Dear George, Dear Gopal,

I attach a recent Press Release (PR) on simultaneous diagnostic of abnormal animals behaviour and ionospheric disturbances detected by SAVNET network, before a large Earthquake in Peru in 2011. The original PR (attached) went out on last Tuesday, immediately followed by many others. Original paper was published on-line last week in JPCE (Physics and Chemistery of the Earth).

It is the result of collaborative works between our group and Rachel Grant (UK) and Friedemann Freund (NASA, SETI).

Since the SAVNET array is part of the instrumental network of ISWI, you may use this PR and distribute it through the newsletter. You may also use it at your convenience if you wish,

Jean-Pierre

Please see the fifth attached PDF

(Sent in by Jean-Pierre Raulin)

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[7] Presentations from UN/Japan Workshop on SPACE WEATHER are now online

From today you can download the presentations from two Web-sites:

  1. Site on which you are. Use the menu above (Publications)->(Presentations on this site)
    or simply click here
  2. Official Website of "2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weeather" here

The Official Website was updated yesterday with the following items:

(Sent in by Werner Balogh)

Webmaster Notes: Other related changes, click here.

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**************[ End of this issue of the ISWI Newsletter ]******************
Attachments:

(1) Ibrahim Fathy Abdalghafar SalemElectrodynamics Coupling between High and Low latitudes by using all the Existing Magnetometer Networks A Thesis For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Science in the Physics of Astronomy 479 KB pdf, one page (click link to document)

(2) Hans Haubold "A Report from the UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather" to American Astronomical Society 331 KB pdf, 2 pages (click link to document)

(3) Kyushu University website: Summary of "2015 UN/Japan Workshop on Space Weather" 785 KB pdf, 2 pages (click link to document)

(4) A.M. Mathai, H.J. Haubold, W.R. Balogh United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative (UNBSSI) 1991-2012 and Beyond 1 239 KB pdf, 51 pages (click link to document)

(5) Press Release concerning SAVNET 894 KB pdf, 3 pages (click link to document)

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