Page History

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)

Group Exercise

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 – 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

, Roger Varney and

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 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities Program (Carrie Black, via video link00 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:

https://data.amisr.com/database/tmp/isr_school_2019/pfisr/pulse2pulse/2019/08/MSWinds26.v03/20190813.001_bm0.html

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