Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory |
International EISCAT Radar School, Sodankylä, Finland, 27 August - 1 September 2012
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 instructors so far are (in alphabetical order): Jorge Chau (JRO), Richard Fallows (ASTRON), Ingemar Häggström (EISCAT HQ), Vikki Howells (U Bath), Antti Kero (SGO), Ian McCrea (STFC-RAL), Anja Strømme (NSF), Thomas Ulich (SGO), Juha Vierinen (SGO).
The programme will start on Monday, 27th August, at 08.30 h in the morning, and will end by midday on Saturday, 1st September.
Links to the lectures of this radar school are given in the programme. See below for links to earlier radar schools and their material.
| Monday, 27th August 2012 | |
| 08:30 | Welcome; Thomas Ulich (pdf, 9.7MB) - Introduction of participants and instructors - Forming groups for practicals - Group assignments - Addressing computer needs |
| 09:00 | Introduction to the Ionosphere; Ian McCrea (pdf, 5.3MB) |
| 10:00 | BREAK |
| 10:30 | Basics of Radar (incl History of Radar); Thomas Ulich (pdf, 44MB) |
| 11:15 | A Short Introduction to Incoherent Scatter Theory; Anja Strømme (pdf, 29MB) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:15 | The US Incoherent Scatter Radars; Anja Strømme (pdf, 30MB) |
| 14:00 | EISCAT and EISCAT_3D; Thomas Ulich (pdf, 30MB) |
| 14:45 | BREAK |
| 15:15 | MADRIGAL data base; Thomas Ulich (pdf, 6.1MB) |
| 16:00 | Group Work |
| 18:00 | Return to hotels / evening activities |
Tuesday, 28th August 2012 | |
| 08:30 | Incoherent Scatter Radar Theory 2; Ian McCrea (pdf, 4.3MB) |
| 10:00 | BREAK |
| 10:30 | Pulse Coding Techniques; Vikki Howells (pdf, 289kB) |
| 11:30 | Common Programme (CP) Experiments; Vikki Howells (pdf, 1.1MB) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 | EISCAT Radar Hardware (pdf, xxMB) |
| 14:15 | Group Work |
| 15:00 | BREAK |
| 15:30 | Group Work; submit experiment proposal by 16:00 h |
| 16:00 | Review and Feedback of proposals |
| 16:30 | BREAK and Experiment planning |
| 17:30 | Radar Experiments and Radar Walks |
| 23:30 | Return to hotels |
Wednesday, 29th August 2012 | |
| 08:30 | Phased Array Radars; Jorge Chau (pdf, 21MB) |
| 09:30 | Aperture Synthesis Radar Imaging in Coherent Scatter Radars; Jorge Chau (pdf, 8.3MB) |
| 10:00 | BREAK |
| 10:30 | Aperture Synthesis Radar Imaging; continued |
| 11:00 | Interpreting EISCAT Data; Ian McCrea (pdf, 8.0MB) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 | Data Analysis using GUISDAP; Ingemar Häggström (pdf, 1.4MB) |
| 15:00 | BREAK |
| 15:30 | Group Work; experiment analysis |
| 18:00 | Return to hotels / evening activities |
Thursday, 30th August 2012 | |
| 08:30 | Equatorial Aeronomy at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory and Relationship to High-Latitude Research; Jorge Chau (pdf, 7.4MB) |
| 09:15 | LOFAR; Richard Fallows (pdf, 4.5MB) |
| 09:45 | BREAK |
| 10:15 | Departure for Excursion; includes lunch |
| 14:10 | Return from Excursion and BREAK |
| 15:00 | Radar Demonstration; Juha Vierinen |
| 15:45 | Group Work; experiment analysis |
| 18:00 | Return to hotels / evening activities |
Friday, 31st August 2012 | |
| 08:30 | Interplanetary Scintillation; Richard Fallows (pdf, 755kB) |
| 09:15 | Pitfalls in geophysical data: dealing with errors; Thomas Ulich (pdf, 6.3MB) |
| 10:10 | BREAK |
| 10:40 | Active ionospheric modification (heating); Antti Kero (pdf, 15MB) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 | Kilpisjärvi Atmospheric Imaging Receiver Array (KAIRA); Juha Vierinen (pdf, 14MB) |
| 14:15 | Group Work; experiment analysis Parallel: Teachers review the school |
| 15:00 | BREAK |
| 18:00 | Return to hotels / evening activities |
Saturday, 23rd July 2011 | |
| NOTE: Saturday planning preliminary! | |
| 08:00 | Student presentations (30 min/group) |
| 09:30 | BREAK |
| 10:00 | 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