Transcript IPY core project - Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

IPY core project #63:
“Heliosphere impact on geospace”
Kirsti Kauristie, FMI
+IHY and ICESTAR Teams
+27 other reseach projects
Contents
• Background
• Brief intro of the other 27 consortia
• Examples of science topics
• Goals of this meeting
• Review of the available instrumentation
• Data sharing issues
• Virtual observatories
• IPY4 versus IGY
• Encouragements and acknowledgements
International Polar Year (IPY, Mar 2007 – Mar 2009)
• March 2007 – March 2009, Project Office in BAS (UK)
• Launched by ICSU and WMO
• Eight science themes (e.g. Ocean, Ice, Atmosphere,
Space)
• Expressions of Interests (>1000) and core projects (>400)
• EoIs submitted in January 2005, final endorsements in
November 2005
• IPY provides support for networking, core funding comes
from national sources.
Heliosphere impact on geospace
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IPY core project (#63) conducted by ICESTAR, IHY (International
Heliophysical Year) and 27 other consortia with scientists from 22
countries.
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Science about coupling phenomena affected by solar activity and
cosmic background radiation
• Between the different atmospheric layers
• Between the magnetosphere and ionosphere
• Between the different hemispheres
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In addition
• Development of Virtual Observatories
• New instrumentation and technology
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http://www.space.fmi.fi/ipyid63
The IPY planning chart
IPY project 63: Who are the others?
• Instrument networks (monitoring): EISCAT,
SuperDARN, Auroral Optical Network, Riometers,
Ionospheric tomography chains, GPS-receivers
• Groups who want to run multi-instrumental campaigns
and desing or test new technology (e.g. long duration
balloon flights, new radars)
• Groups who want to utilize the unique measurement
conditions in the Antarctica
• Groups who want to test ”grazy” ideas
• Lead contacts: UK 6; US, Russia, Japan 4; Italy 3
GOMOS polar (60º-90º) NO2 [ppbv]
NH
More about this topic:
Esa Turunen SGO, later today
Annika Seppälä FMI, Tuesday before lunch
Pekka Verronen FMI, Tuesday after lunch
SH
2003
2004
2005
Interhemispheric asymmetries in auroras
More about this topic:
Nikolai Ostgaard Univ. Bergen, Tuesday afternoon
Akira Kadokura, NIPR Japan, Wednesday morning
Ground-based cameras: conjugacy point can
move hundreds of km in longitude
Satellite images: Statistical models
underestimate IMF By penetration
TIMIS: Powerful weatherfronts and ionospheric magnetic variations
More about this topic:
V. Papitashvili, Wed Afternoon
Goals for this meeting
• Identify the grand unified science goals
• Identify our resources: people, instrumentation,
models and data analysis tools
• Set up routines for monitoring the outcome
• Boost up the usage of Virtual Observatories
• Discuss opportunities to get more money
• Get to know each other
IPY-IHY-ICESTAR networking
• Persons contacted:
• IHY CIP proposers
• ICESTAR Topical Action
Group leaders
• IPY Expression of Interest
Lead contacts
• The process will be
continued..
Optical Networks: Auroral precipitation, conductances
Magnetically conjugate regions
SuperDARN Radars: Plasma convection
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Maps of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) arrays over the
Northern (left) and Southern (right) polar regions. The Antarctic map shows
fields-of-view for existing (yellow) and planned (orange) radars.
Riometers: Energetic precipitation
Coordinates: Data base of the Lancaster University
Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Radars
 Current Antarctic MLT Sites
South Pole, Scott Base, Davis, Syowa & Rothera
 Current Arctic MLT Sites
Esrange, Andennes, Tromso, Svalbard, Dixon
Island, Resolute Bay, Yellowknife, Barrow
http://sisko.colorado.edu/TIMED
IPY Data Policy
• ”Data should be carefully collected, freely accessible,
adequately preserved, and timely distributed”
• ”Data should be accompanied by a full set of
metadata that completely describes the
measurements”
• ”A legacy of versatile data systems”
• Solution: Virtual Observatories, one shopping site for
observations from distributed sources
• Difference from Word Data Centers: VOs transfer data
only upon user’s request.
• ICESTAR: GAIA and VGMO; Madrigal and
SuperDARN, GPS and ionospheric tomography chains
How to get data providers motivated?
• VO’s could apply for Digital Object Identification code,
c.f. AGU journals doi:10.1029/XXX
• Suggestion: DOI prefix: IPY, DOI suffix: VO
• Improvement to URLs: URLs change, DOIs persist
• Improvement to publications: Information behind
DOIs can be updated easily
• Scientists using your data could easily refer to your
DOI->User statistics for funding parties
• The drawback: Getting a DOI costs some real
money… (member fee and annual fee)
IPY-4 versus IGY
• Improvements since the IGY days:
• Long time series available
• Combined analysis of different
data sets (ground-based and
space-based)
Palmroth et al. 2006
• Data mining with machine vision
methods
• Theoretical models help
interpretation
• Advancements in the
instrumentation
• From qualitative to quantitative
descriptions
Akasofu, 1969
Recent Nature/Physics papers:
• ”auroras”
• ”magnetosphere”
• Auroral flares at Jupiter
• Cluster
• Artificial auroras at
• Pinatubo effects in the
Caribbean
magnetosphere
• ”stratosphere
• Saturn’s magnetosphere
• Observations during
• Halloween storm and
Huygens probe descent
radiation belts
• El nino effects in
• Planetary auroral storms from
stratosphere (1941-429)
Sun to Saturn
• “Exceptional astronomical
• ”sprites”
seeing conditions above
• Images of high-speed
Dome C in Antarctica”
cameras
• “Arctic rockets give glimpse
• Similar discharges in Venus
of the atmosphere's top
layers”
Acknowledgements
• Nice to see you all here!
• Scientific Council of Antarctic Research (SCAR), The
Foundation of Vilho, Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä, and
Finnish Meteorological Institute have supported this
meeting.