Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory |
Programme
Timetable
The overview timetable is now available for download).
Monday, 30st August 2010 | |
| 0830-0840 | Welcome to the Radar School (Th Ulich; pdf) |
| 0840-0900 | Brief History of Radar (Th Ulich; pdf) |
| 0900-1000 | EISCAT Scientific Association (E Turunen; pdf, 97MB) |
| 1000-1030 | Coffee break |
| 1030-1200 | Ionosphere and Radar Measurements (A Aikio; pdf) |
| 1200-1330 | Lunch break |
| 1330-1500 | Outline of the Incoherent Scatter Method (T Nygrén; pdf) |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee break |
| 1530-1700 | Outline of the Incoherent Scatter Method (T Nygrén; pdf) |
| 1700-1740 | Break |
| 1740-1800 | Transport to Municipality Hall |
| 1800-2000 | Reception of the Municipality of Sodankylä |
| 2015-2030 | Transport to observatory guest rooms |
Tuesday, 31st August 2010 | |
| 0830-1000 | Outline of the Incoherent Scatter Method (T Nygrén; pdf) |
| 1000-1030 | Coffee break |
| 1030-1200 | Simplified Experiment Design Methods (M Lehtinen; pdf) Additional reading: M. S. Lehtinen, Statistical Theory of Incoherent Scatter Radar Measurements, EISCAT Technical Note 86/45, 1986 (pdf) |
| 1200-1400 | Lunch break |
| 1400-1530 | Current EISCAT Radars (A Westman; pdf) |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee break |
| 1600-1700 | Getting EISCAT Data: Madrigal (Th Ulich; pdf) |
| 1700-1900 | Break, sauna |
| 1900-2300 | Joint Dinner at the observatory, sauna |
Wednesday, 1st September 2010 | |
| 0830-0915 | EISCAT Space Debris Measurements (J Markkanen; link) |
| 0915-1000 | Lag Profile Inversion and its Application (I Virtanen; pdf) |
| 1000-1030 | Coffee break |
| 1030-1200 | Using EROS and the Experiment Simulator (J Markkanen; link) |
| 1200-1330 | Lunch break |
| 1330-1415 | Radar Demonstration Using Sound Waves (A Kero and I Virtanen; pdf) |
| 1415-1500 | Common Programme Experiments, Experiment Modules (I Häggström; pdf) |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee break |
| 1530-1700 | Introduction to GUISDAP (I Häggström; pdf) See also: GUISDAP homepage; download. |
| 2000-2300 | Running an Experiment on the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (I Häggström) See also: Real-Time Graph. |
| 2000-2300 | Radar Walk (Th Ulich; pdf) |
Thursday, 2nd September 2010 | |
| 0830-1000 | Analysis of the ESR Experiment (I Häggström) Data of ESR exp (here) or as tar-balls (Part 1, Part 2) |
| 1000-1030 | Coffee break |
| 1030-1200 | Interpreting EISCAT Data (I McCrea; pdf, 165MB) |
| 1200-1330 | Lunch break |
| 1330-1415 | Introduction to Heating (A Kero; pdf) |
| 1415-1500 | EISCAT Heating Facility (M Rietveld; pdf) |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee break |
| 1530-1630 | Overview of Plasma Waves Excited by Active Experiments (P Bernhardt) |
| 1630-1700 | HF Calibration Sphere Concept and Design Status (P Bernhardt; pdf) |
Friday, 3rd September 2010 | |
| 0900-1030 | The EISCAT_3D Project (I McCrea; pdf, 37MB) |
| 1030-1100 | Coffee break |
| 1100-1200 | Phased Array Radars (A Strømme; pdf, 97MB) |
| 1200-1330 | Lunch break |
| 1330-1500 | LOFAR Technology and EISCAT (D McKay-Bukowski; pdf) |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee break |
| 1530-1700 | US Radars (A Strømme; pdf, 208MB) |
Saturday, 4th September 2010 | |
| 0830-0900 | EISCAT and satellite measurements of ionospheric electrodynamics (A Aikio) |
| 0900-0930 | MAARSY - The Middle Atmosphere ALOMAR Radar System on Andøya (N Engler; pdf, 29MB) |
| 0930-1000 | Coffee break |
| 1000-1130 | Discussion, Questions, Conclusions |
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