Monday, 18th July 2011
08:30 Welcome
Introduction of participants and instructors
Forming groups for practicals
Group assignments
Addressing computer needs
09:30 Introduction to the Ionosphere (Anita Aikio)
10:15 BREAK
10:45 Basic Radar 1 (incl History of Radar) (Thomas Ulich)
11:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 1 (Anja Stromme)
12:15 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 EISCAT Scientific Association and its facilities (Esa Turunen)
14:00 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities programme (Bob Robinson)
14:30 BREAK
14:45 Madrigal database (incl group work) (Bill Rideout)
Evening - Groups get together to discuss their radar experiments
Tuesday, 19th July 2011
08:30 Ionosphere practical (Anita Aikio)
08:45 Basic Radar 2 (Anthea Coster)
09:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 2 (Josh Semeter)
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Incoherent scatter radar theory 3 (Phil Erickson)
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 Experiment design
pulse coding
dish vs phased array
14:15 Data analysis and fitting 1 (incl GUISDAP) Sondrestrom and Eiscat
15:00 BREAK
15:15 Experiment design (group work)
17:00 Deadline to submit group experiments
Evening - Parallel sessions:
Groups run radar experiments at the Sondrestrom site
Science using radars: highlights of experiments and results (groups will swap, everybody gets to see both)
Wednesday, 20th July 2011
Morning Excursion: trip to the Greenland Ice Cap
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
Rest of day - Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments
Thursday, 21st July 2011
09:00 Pitfalls in geophysical data: dealing with errors (Thomas Ulich)
09:45 Incoherent scatter radar spectrum (Phil Erickson)
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Data analysis and fitting 2 Phil Erickson and Ingemar Haggstrom
11:45 Interpreting incoherent scatter radar data (Ian McCrea)
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
Rest of day - Work on assignments and presentations
Friday, 22nd July 2011
09:00 Incoherent scatter radar history
09:30 Active ionospheric modification (heating) (Antti Kero)
10:15 BREAK
10:45 Phased array radars and ISR processing chain (Craig Heinselman)
11:30 Future radars: EISCAT_3D (Esa Turunen)
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:45 IS spectrum (Jussi Markkanen)
Rest of day - Work on assignments and presentations
Saturday, 23rd July 2011
09:00 Student presentations
Group 6 presentation and movie
Group 7 presentation and movie
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Conclusions, summary, discussion
Closing