Craig's pictures of the school Phil's pictures of the school

Thomas' movie (mov) of the group photo

Powerpoint of Craig needing your caption Powerpoint 97 format

Schedule

Room locations for each group

ISR SUMMER SCHOOL July 29 – August 4, 2012 Banff, CANADA

Sunday, July 29

• Students and staff arrive

• Ground Transportation to Banff Centre from Calgary

• Staff available in lobby to hand out packets and answer questions

• Group Assignments will be made

• Dinner available at Vistas (Banff Centre) 17:30-19:30

Monday, July 30

• 08:30 Welcome (Mike Greffen, Bob Robinson)

  • Introduction of participants and instructors (Elizabeth Kendall)

  • Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Mike Greffen, Elizabeth Kendall)

• 09:30 Introduction to the ionosphere (Elizabeth Kendall and Anthea Coster)

  • Exercise Overview - Coster

  • Exercise 1

  • Exercise 2

  • Exercise 3

  • Exercise 4

• 10:15 BREAK

• 10:45 Basic Radar 1 (Anthea Coster)

• 11:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 1 (Anja Stromme)

• 12:15 Lunch at Vistas

• 13:30 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities program (Bob Robinson)

• 14:00 Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)

• 18:30 BBQ Dinner

Tuesday, July 31

• 08:30 Ionosphere 2 (Elizabeth and Anthea) Exercise answers

• 09:00 Basic Radar 2 (Josh Semeter)

• 09:45 Incoherent scatter radar theory 2 (Phil Erickson)

  • IS Spectrum simulator

  • ISR signal chain simulator

• 10:30 BREAK

• 11:00 Incoherent scatter radar theory 3 (Phil Erickson and Josh Semeter)

• 12:00 Lunch at Vistas

• 13:30 Experiment Design (Anja Stromme)

• 14:15 Data analysis and fitting 1 (Craig Heinselman) –

• 15:00 BREAK

• 15:15 Experiment Design (group work)

• 18:15 Deadline to submit group experiments

• 18:30 Dinner at Vistas

Wednesday, August 1

• 09:00 Group Tour, lunch provided (Mike Greffen)

• 14:00 ISR versus in-situ measurements (Dave Knudsen)

• 14:30 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments

• 18:30 Dinner at Vistas

• 20:00 Elective: MIT IAP Laptop Radar discussion and demonstration (Phil Erickson)

Thursday, August 2

• 08:30 Pitfalls in geophysical data: dealing with errors (Thomas Ulich)

• 09:15 Incoherent scatter radar spectrum (Craig Heinselman)

• 10:00 Space Weather Impact on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (Susan Skone)

• 10:30 BREAK

• 11:00 Data analysis and fitting 2 (Phil Erickson)

  • ACF chain simulator

  • ISR signal chain simulator

  • Barker code simulator

• 11:45 Interpreting ISR data (Josh Semeter)

• 12:30 Lunch at Vistas

• 13:30 Work on assignments and presentations

• 16:30 Elective: MIT IAP Laptop Radar discussion and demonstration (Phil Erickson)

• 18:30 Dinner at Vistas

Friday, August 3

• 08:30 Incoherent scatter radar history (Phil Erickson)

• 09:00 A Grand Vision for Studying the Coupled ITM System (Eric Donovan)

• 09:30 What Radar Scientists need to know about Ground Magnetic Data (Martin Conners)

  • Resources on Interpretation of Ground-Based Magnetometer Data

    • Boström, R., A Model of the Auroral Electrojets, J. Geophys. Res. 69, 4983-4999, 1964.

      • Early paper about how electric current can flow in the auroral zone: basics remain correct.

    • Cowley, S. W. H., Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions: A Tutorial Review, in Magnetospheric Current Systems, edited by Ohtani, S.-I., Fujii, R., Hesse, M., and Lysak, R. L., American Geophysical Union, Washington, pp. 91-106, 2000. (Geophysical Monograph 118)

      • This volume also contains other “Tutorials” which are very useful

    • Dessler, A. J., The Evolution of Arguments Regarding the Existence of Field-Aligned Currents, in Magnetospheric Currents, edited by T. A. Potemra, American Geophysical Union, Washington, pp. 22-28, 1983. (Geophysical Monograph 28)

      • This older volume has a large amount of historical material of much interest

    • Fukushima, N., Some topics and historical episodes in geomagnetism and aeronomy J. Geophys. Res. 99, 19,113-19,142, 1994.

      • The possibly misunderstood “Fukushima Theorem” is described in two obscure Japanese publications (which are in English) and in this more accessible one. Must be read carefully, and it helps to have the context in mind from historical readings above.

    • The historically most often used inversion techniques for magnetic data have been called KRM and AMIE. These both rely on calculating current-electric field relations globally using a harmonic decomposition. Sparse data, low resolution due to the decomposition being of low order and degree, and the need to relate E and B though the highly variable parameter of conductivity make the inversion task a difficult one.

• 10:15 BREAK

• 10:45 Phased array radars (Craig Heinselman)

• 11:30 Using ISR to study ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves (Frances Fenrich)

• 12:00 Incoherent versus coherent scatter radars (JP St-Maurice)

  • Reference for general EM scattering theory: J. Sheffield, "Plasma scattering of Electromagnetic Radiation"

• 12:30 Lunch at Vistas

• 13:45 EISCAT 3D (Thomas Ullich)

• 14:30 Work on assignments and presentations

• 18:30 Dinner at Vistas

Saturday, August 4

• 09:00 Student presentations

  • Group 1

  • Group 2

  • Group 3

    • Ne interp video

    • Pan video

  • Group 4

  • Group 5

  • Group 6

  • Group 7

• 10:30 BREAK

• 11:00 Student presentations

• 12:30 Lunch at Vistas

• 14:00 Future Radars (Bob Robinson)

• 14:30 Conclusions, summary, discussion, Closing

• 18:30 Dinner at Vistas

Sunday, August 5

• Breakfast available at Vistas

• Departures to Calgary