2019 ISR School

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)

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 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/

Millstone Hill ISR:  On Madrigal at http://millstonehill.haystack.mit.edu

Jicamarca:  On Madrigal at http://jro-db.igp.gob.pe/madrigal/

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 and Roger Varney)

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