ISWI Newsletter - Vol.12 No.11
13 August 2020

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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

[1] Reader comment about HAARP located in Alaska (read it)

[2] Magnetic sea mines detonated by CME, during the Vietnam War (read it)

[3] Announcement about COLAGE 2020 meeting that was organized for the week of December 14÷18, 2020, in Pucon Chile. (read it)

[4] International Geophysical Research Group /Europe-Africa-Asia, LETTER, 63, June 2020 (read it)

[5] International Colloquium on Equatorial and Low-Latitude Ionosphere (ICELLI), Sep 15÷17, 2020 (read it)

[6] AGS Newsletter --- Vol.3 No. 06; 6 July 2020 (read it)

[7] New eSWua webportal for ionospheric data and product (read it)

[1] Reader comment about HAARP located in Alaska

In the last issue (#10, 18 JULY 2020), I made reference to a YouTube video about HAARP (a space weather research facility in Alaska). With regards to that, I got this comment from Witham Reeve of Alaska. Check it out. G.Maeda, 19 July 2020.

Send by Christian Monstein

[2] Magnetic sea mines detonated by CME, during the Vietnam War

From recently declassified US Navy documents: How magnetic sea mines (Hai Phong Harbor) detonated during the Vietnam War due to CME crashing into the Earth The sea mine story is in this interesting video: "How Prepared Are We For A Carrington Level Solar Storm?" [ Length: 17:40 ]

The sea mine story occurs between: 13:08 and 14:15. Probably this is new to most readers as the story was classified until recently.

Send by George Maeda

[3] Announcement from ALAGE (Latin American Association of Space Geophysics)

The COLAGE 2020 Local Organizing Committee, the COLAGE 2020 International Scientific Committee, and the ALAGE directive have decided to postpone the COLAGE 2020 meeting that was organized for the week of December 14 - 18, 2020 in Pucon Chile. The same applies for the student workshop that was going to occur the week before.

The main reasons for this decision are the evolution of the coronavirus contagion in Chile and Latin America; the difficulty for traveling in many countries; the importance of having a face-to-face conference in which ALAGE members, students, and scientists can exchange ideas and start collaborations; and in general due to the unpredictable conditions at the programmed time of the conference. We waited as long as we could to make this difficult announcement, but at this point, it is now clear that things will not improve considerably by December as any relaxation of the quarantine measures, even if they were done today, will take time in a trial and error fashion as it is occurring in many countries.

The COLAGE meeting and student workshop will be held at a future time when the sanitary conditions allow a meeting of these characteristics and will be informed in due time.

However, we would like to inform you that during the time of the Eclipse we are organizing a dual mode (virtual and face-to-face) Space Geophysics workshop. If the conditions allow it, we will hold the workshop on the same site in Pucon, Chile. Everyone is invited to present their work in a face-to-face or virtual fashion. Information about this workshop will be communicated shortly.

Sincerely yours,
ALAGE directive, http://www.alage.org (alage.information[at]gmail.com)
COLAGE 2020 Local Organizing Committee (marina.stepanova[at]usach.cl)
COLAGE 2020 International Organizing committee

Send by Dra. Maria Graciela Molina
m.graciela.molina[at]gmail.com

[4] International Geophysical Research Group /Europe-Africa-Asia, LETTER, 63, June 2020

At the end of the IEEY (International Equatorial Electrojet Year), in 1995, IGRGEA (International Geophysical Research Group Europe Africa) has been organized to follow the research work initiated during IEEY, in 1992. Since January 2003 IGRGEA has been established at the Institute of Geophysics in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Read the full text IGRGEA LETTER  

Send by Christine Amory-Mazaudier

[5] International Colloquium on Equatorial and Low-Latitude Ionosphere (ICELLI), Sep 15÷17, 2020 Exclusively Online; Final Announcement

Gaining better understanding of the dynamics of the equatorial and low latitude ionosphere has become an object of global concern more than ever. Equatorial region, also known as the low latitude region refers to the region within ± 20° on either side of the geomagnetic equator. The region is characterized with much complexities and high level of dynamics which result in phenomena such as spread F, ionospheric anomaly, equatorial electrojet, equatorial plasma fountain, etc. The impact of such phenomena on telecommunications, navigation, satellite operations, and other space-based technologies has made the region a point of international collaborative focus in scientific research. The past decades have witnessed deployment of observational facilities to equatorial region of the world courtesy of international communities coordinated by United Nations under the International Heliophysical Year IHY and more recently International Space Weather Initiative ISWI. In addition, there are several experimental satellites with focus on equatorial space environment.

See the entire announcement: 

[6] AGS Newsletter --- Vol.3 No. 07; August 2020

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Send by Aderonke Obafaye
secretariat[at]afgps.org

[7] New eSWua webportal for ionospheric data and product

It's a pleasure to inform you that the new eSWua (Electronic Space Weather upper atmosphere) webportal for the exploitation of INGV ionospheric data and products is out!

You can reach the homepage by: eswua.ingv.it or eswua.rm.ingv.it or eswuax.rm.ingv.it

The eSWua system is completely new including a lot of data visualization, processing and download tools (GUI and webservice) allowing a very fast and flexible way to exploit INGV ionospheric data and products.

I invite you to have a look into the new website and to contact us with your comments and suggestions by using the "Contact" form present in the homepage footer.

Hope you enjoy our new webportal: Real-time Total Electron Content over Italy

Send by Babatunde Rabiu

(1) IGRGEA LETTER N⁰ 63 June 2020  747KB, 6 pages

(2) Final Announcement ICELLI2020 Exclusively Online September 15÷17, 2020  855KB, two pages