Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory |
International ISR Workshop, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, 18-23 July 2011
Programme
Please be aware that the programme of the workshop is still subject to minor changes. Note further that lectures will be made available on this page during and after the workshop.
The confirmed instructors so far are (in alphabetical order): Anita Aikio (U Oulu), Anthea Coster (MIT Haystack), Philip Erickson (MIT Haystack), Craig Heinselman (SRI International), Ingemar Häggström (EISCAT HQ), Antti Kero (SGO), Jussi Markkanen (EISCAT Sodankylä), Ian McCrea (STFC-RAL), Bill Rideout (MIT Haystack), Robert Robinson (NSF), Anja Strømme (SRI International), Esa Turunen (EISCAT HQ), Thomas Ulich (SGO).
| 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 (pdf, 7.3MB) |
| 10:15 | BREAK |
| 10:45 | Basic Radar 1 (incl History of Radar); Thomas Ulich (pdf, 20MB) |
| 11:30 | Incoherent scatter radar theory 1; Anja Strømme (pdf, 25MB) |
| 12:15 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 | EISCAT Scientific Association; Esa Turunen (pdf, 107MB) |
| 14:00 | The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities programme (pdf, 7.2MB) |
| 14:30 | BREAK |
| 14:45 | MADRIGAL data base; Bill Rideout (pdf, 4.3MB) - includes group work |
| Evening | Groups get together to discuss their radar experiments - includes ice breaking party at the Sondrestrom Radar Facility |
Tuesday, 19th July 2011 | |
| 08:30 | Ionosphere practical; Anita Aikio |
| 08:45 | Basic Radar 2; Anthea Coster (pdf, 2.9MB) |
| 09:30 | Radar Signal Processing; Josh Semeter (pdf, 14MB) |
| 10:30 | BREAK |
| 11:00 | Incoherent scatter radar theory 2; Phil Erickson (pdf, 16MB) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 | Experiment design, data analysis and fitting - Sondrestrom and PFISR; Craig Heinselman (pdf, 62MB) - EISCAT Common Programme (CP) Experiments; Ingemar Häggström (pdf, 0.6MB) |
| 15:00 | BREAK |
| 15:15 | Experiment design (group work) |
| 17:00 | Deadline to submit group experiments |
| Evening | Groups run radar experiments at the Sondrestrom site |
Wednesday, 20th July 2011 | |
| Morning | Excursion: trip to the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet - includes packed lunches |
| 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 (pdf, 5.9MB) |
| 09:45 | Incoherent scatter radar theory 3; Phil Erickson (pdf, 1.1MB) |
| 10:30 | BREAK |
| 11:00 | Data analysis and fitting 2 - IS fitting, Phil Erickson (pdf, 3.4MB) - GUISDAP, Ingemar Ingemar Häggström (pdf, 1.4MB) |
| 11:45 | Interpreting incoherent scatter radar data; Ian McCrea (pdf, 8.7MB) |
| 12:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| Rest of day | Work on assignments and presentations |
Friday, 22nd July 2011 | |
| 09:00 | Appleton-Hartree Equation; Anthea Coster (pdf, 0.1MB) |
| 09:30 | Active ionospheric modification (heating); Antti Kero (pdf, 18MB) |
| 10:15 | BREAK |
| 10:45 | Phased array radars; Craig Heinselman (pdf, 27MB) ISR processing chain; Craig Heinselman (pdf, 43MB) |
| 11:30 | Future radars: EISCAT_3D; Esa Turunen (pdf, 63MB) |
| 12:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:45 | Incoherent scatter radar spectrum; Jussi Markkanen (pdf, 3.7MB) |
| Rest of day | Work on assignments and presentations |
Saturday, 23rd July 2011 | |
| 09:00 | Student presentations |
| 10:30 | BREAK |
| 11:00 | Student presentations |
| 12:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 | Conclusions, summary, discussion Closing |
Earlier Radar Schools
- Early
EISCAT Radar Schools:
1995 - Cargese, Corsica, France
2003 - Menlo Park, California, USA
2004 - Tromsø, Norway
2005 - Kiruna, Sweden
2006 - Qingdao, China
2007 - Mariehamn and Sodankylä, Finland - 2008 - AMISR Summer School, Millstone Hill, USA
- 2009 - AMISR Summer School, Menlo Park, California, USA
- 2010 - AMISR Summer School, Millstone Hill, USA
- 2010 - International EISCAT Radar School, Sodankylä, Finland
- 2011 - International Incoherent Scatter Radar Workshop, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
- EISCAT pages
- US pages - 2012 - ISR Summer School, Banff, Canada
- 2012 - International EISCAT Radar School, Sodankylä, Finland