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ISR SUMMER SCHOOL 

August 12-17, 2019

Pikku-Syöte

Syöte, Finland

 

PDF of agenda

 

Lecturers

 

Tools

 

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, Bill Rideout)

 Group assignments (Thomas Ulich and Elizabeth Kendall

13:45 Introduction to the Ionosphere (Anita Aikio)

14:30 Radar as a Black Box (Bill Rideout)

15:15 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)

19:00 Dinner

20:00 OPEN: Elective:  MIT IAP Small Radar discussion and demonstration (Phil Erickson who is doing this, or do we skip it?)

 

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 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 (Carl-Fredrik Enell, Roger Varney, and Bill Rideout)

14:15 Arecibo, and Jicamarca modes during experiments (Elizabeth Kendall)

14:30 Experiment Design (group work)

15:00 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 link)

09:30 ISR Theory 3 (Ian McCrea)

10:15 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments (coffee available for break)

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 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 History of Radar (including some facts about SGO; Thomas Ulich)

13:30 Work on assignment and presentation (coffee available for break)

19:00 Dinner

 

Friday

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Question and answer session (all)

10:00 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 (coffee available for break)

19:00 Dinner

 

 

Saturday

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Student presentations (3x30 min)

10:00 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

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