ISR SUMMER SCHOOL
August 12-17, 2019
Pikku-Syöte
Syöte, Finland
High latitude ISR Fact sheet
List of Groups (pdf)
Experiment proposals for all 6 groups
ISR school pictures (Craig Heinselman)
GUISDAP information page with link to download page:
https://www.eiscat.se/scientist/user-documentation/guisdap-9-0/
Direct link to download page:
https://www.eiscat.se/raw/GUISDAP/dist90/
Python program that plots ESR 32 m data on a map: https://github.com/cmeeren/eiscatscanplot
Map of Oulu
Lecturers
- Elizabeth Kendall - SRI - elizabeth.kendall@sri.com
- Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
- Bill Rideout - MIT - brideout@haystack.mit.edu
- Roger Varney - SRI - roger.varney@sri.com
- Ashton Reimer - SRI - ashton.reimer@sri.com
- Thomas Ulich - SGO - thomas.ulich@sgo.fi
- Ilkka Vertanen - Oulu - ilkka.i.virtanen@oulu.fi
- Anita Aikio - Oulu - anita.aikio@oulu.fi
- Ian McCrea - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory -ian.mccrea@stfc.ac.uk
- Craig Heinselman - EISCAT - craig.heinselman@eiscat.se
- Carl-Fredrik Enell - EISCAT - carl-fredrik.enell@eiscat.se
- Antti Kero - SGO - antti.kero@sgo.fi
Tools
IS spectrum Java applet
- Python Incoherent Scatter tools from Mike and Roger based on Kudeki/Milla paper
visuamisr python toolkit, AMISR Matlab toolkit, AMISR IDL toolkit
References
Nygren paper on radar and alternating codes
- Eiscat ISR lectures book
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
Monday
09:00 Shuttle from Oulu train station to Pikku-Syöte
11:00 Arrive at Pikku-Syöte, Check-in, accommodate everyone 12:00 Lunch
13:00 Welcome (Thomas Ulich, Elizabeth Kendall)
- Introduction of participants and instructors (Thomas Ulich and Elizabeth Kendall)
- Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Thomas Ulich and Bill Rideout)
- Group assignments (Thomas Ulich and Elizabeth Kendall)
13:45 Introduction to the Ionosphere (Anita Aikio)
14:30 ISR as a Black Box (Bill Rideout)
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 Radar 1: Radar Physics (Anthea Coster)
16:30 ISR Theory 1: The Short Introduction to Incoherent Scatter (Anita Aikio)
17:15 Ionosphere Radar Data Examples (Anita Aikio)
17:30 Madrigal Database and Group Work (Bill Rideout)
Group exercise 1: Web Interface
Group exercise 2: Writing scripts
Madrigal ipython notebook example
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Ionosphere – Radar Data Example Discussion (Anita Aikio)
08:45 Radar 2 (Ilkka Virtanen)
09:30 Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing (Roger Varney)
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 ISR Theory 2 (Roger Varney)
11:30 Interpreting Incoherent Scatter Radar Data (Ian McCrea)
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Experiment Design and Data Analysis:
EISCAT - Carl-Fredrik Enell
SRI - Ashton Reimer
Millstone Hill - Bill Rideout
14:15 Arecibo, and Jicamarca modes during experiments (Elizabeth Kendall)
14:30 Experiment Design (group work)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Experiment Design (group work)
18:00 Deadline to submit group experiments
19:00 Start of Experiment Night – see separate timetable
- (16 UTC to 22 UTC, 2 h per group, 2 groups parallel, 19 LT - 01 LT)
- Dinner – interleaved with experiments
Wednesday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 EISCAT Scientific Association (Craig Heinselman)
09:00 History of Radar (including some facts about SGO; Thomas Ulich)
09:30 ISR Theory 3 (Ian McCrea)
10:15 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments (incl. Coffee Break)
Eiscat data on Madrigal at http://www.eiscat.se/madrigal/
EISCAT schedule data download page
The data for PFISR and RISR-N is now processed and posted. Here are links to access the data:
PFISR:
group 6: https://amisr.com/database/61/experiment/20190813.001/
group 5: https://amisr.com/database/61/experiment/20190813.002/
group 4: https://amisr.com/database/61/experiment/20190813.004/
RISRN: https://data.amisr.com/database/tmp/isr_school_2019/risrn/20190813.001/
These are all "SRI" format hdf5 files. The PFISR data is also available in Madrigal at http://isr.sri.com/madrigal/
The spectra files and Interactive RTI files are inside:
https://data.amisr.com/database/tmp/isr_school_2019/pfisr/pulse2pulse/2019/08/
MSWinds26.v03 has an interesting precipitation event. Attached spectra with 15 minutes integration, also available through the interactive rti by clicking around 17UT:
PFISR D region Spectra:
https://data.amisr.com/database/tmp/isr_school_2019/pfisr/pulse2pulse/2019/08/
Millstone Hill ISR: On Madrigal at http://millstonehill.haystack.mit.edu
Jicamarca: On Madrigal at http://jro-db.igp.gob.pe/madrigal/
TEC Data: Iono files and images dropbox link; Format of iono file
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Excursion
19:00 Banquet
Thursday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Pitfalls in Geophysical Data: Dealing with Errors (Thomas Ulich)
09:15 Data Analysis and Fitting 1 (Ashton Reimer)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Data Analysis and Fitting 2: (Carl-Fredrik Enell)
11:15 ISR Science Highlights (Ian McCrea et al.)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities Program (Carrie Black, via video link)
13:30 Work on assignment and presentation (incl. Coffee Break)
19:00 Dinner
Friday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Question and answer session (all)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Active ionospheric modification (Antti Kero)
11:15 Phased arrays (Craig Heinselman)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 AMISR (Roger Varney)
13:30 EISCAT_3D (Craig Heinselman)
14:00 Work on assignments and presentations (incl. Coffee Break)
19:00 Dinner
Saturday
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Student presentations (3x30 min)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Student presentations (3x30 min)
12:00 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions
12:30 Lunch and packing
14:00 Departure: Shuttle from Pikku-Syöte to Oulu train station