Space Weather Euro News Vol.4 Issue 9 (28-04-2000)
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1. The Nordic GIC network
2. Meudon Centre
3. Call for Papers for the "Space Weather Symposium" of the 1st
S-RAMP
Converence.
4. Some ESA Tender Actions
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1. The Nordic GIC network
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From: Henrik
Lundstedt
E-mail: Henrik.Lundstedt@irfl.lu.se
The Nordic GIC network
(http://www.lund.irf.se/HeliosHome/nordicgicnetwork.html)
was initiated
at the Nordic GIC Meeting, held in Lund September 23-24, 1999.
A summary of the Nordic GIC MEETING is available at the web site:
http://www.lund.irf.se/HeliosHome/nordic3.html.
The Nordic GIC Network includes:
- Data. Collect, store and distribute Nordic GIC related data.
- Disturbances. Collect information concerning GIC related disturbances
in power systems and gas pipelines.
- Web site. List of contact persons, data and events
- Newsletter
- Predictions. Links to GIC related predictions.
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2. Meudon Centre
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From: Pierre
Lantos
E-mail: Pierre.Lantos@obspm.fr
The Meudon Warning Center has changed his activities because of the
suppression of the military service in France : in the past young
scientists were send in secondement to Meudon Observatory for
predictions related to CNES satellite orbitography. The daily
predictions have been transfered to SIDC (Brussels Observatory) which
will become soon an official ISES center for public, industry and
laboratory needs, and to CLS (a commercial CNES subsidiary company) at
Toulouse for space agency and space industry needs. Meudon will
continue its own predictions of solar cycle on a monthly basis (McNish
and Lincoln method and neural networks). The Meudon Center is also in
charge of the French cosmic ray observation program and will be
involved in the SIEVERT project, an official french operational program
needed to calculate dose equivalents received on each flight by air
crews (annual dose estimate becomes a legal obligation in Europe
starting in May 2000). Development of specific Space Weather
applications will also continue at Meudon, in collaboration with Ecole
Polytechnique (Palaiseau) for new methods of flare and CME predictions
based on magnetic field extrapolation, and in collaboration with the
Service d'Aeronomie (Verrieres) for use of Lyman Alpha observations of
the Swan experiment on board SOHO to monitor active regions on the far
side of the Sun (see Bertaux et al., Geophysical Research Letters,
Volume 27, no. 9, May 1, 2000, pages 1331-1334). Both projects are made
with the help of CNES.
Pierre Lantos
cf Web : http://previ.obspm.fr/previ
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3. Call for Papers for the "Space Weather Symposium" of the 1st S-RAMP
Converence.
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From: Hannu
Koskinen
E-mail: Hannu.Koskinen@fmi.fi
Space Weather Symposium of the 1st S-RAMP Conference October 2-6, 2000,
Sapporo, Japan
Space weather is a rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field of space
research, where the interests of solar-terrestrial physics and space
applications communities meet each other. While the basic physics of
space weather and the prediction techniques are topics of other
symposia of the S-RAMP Conference, our Space Weather Symposium will
attempt to bind the individual threads together. Thus we, in
particular, encourage submission of multi-disciplinary papers dealing
with entire space weather events from the Sun to the various parts of
the geospace. Furthermore, we are looking for contributions with more
practical flavor: descriptions of development of data systems and
operative models, and requirements from actual and potential users of
space weather services. It is also important to ask what observations
are most urgently needed in future, both scientific missions and
operative observatory capabilities, in space as well as on ground.
Solicited speakers: Santimay Basu, Janet Kozyra, Ching Meng, Terry
Onsager, Risto Pirjola, B. M. Reddy, Rainer Schwenn, Takashi Tanaka.
THE DEADLINE IS MAY 15, 2000!
For further information, please see the Second Circular which has been
mailed recently, or the web site
http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/s-ramp/
or contact the Meeting Scientific Organizers:
Hannu E. J.
Koskinen Nicola J.
Fox
Finnish Meteorological Inst. ISTP Science & Operations Coordinator
Geophysical Research
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
P.O.Box
503
Code 696
FIN-00101
Helsinki
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Finland
US
Hannu.Koskinen@fmi.fi
nicola.fox@gsfc.nasa.gov
Hannu
Koskinen
Nicola Fox
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4. Some ESA Tender Actions from ESA EMITS
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AO3659
RADIATION EFFECTS
ANALYSIS TOOLS
(Open from
03/04/2000 to 30/05/2000, Act.Ref.: 99.1WM.05)
AO3674
NEW-GENERATION OF
SOLAR ARRAY DRIVE
MECHANISMS FOR
GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES
(Open from
13/03/2000 to 09/05/2000, Act.Ref.: 00.1CA.23)
AO3657
GROUND STATION
NETWORK UPGRADE
(Open from
09/03/2000 to 25/05/2000, Act.Ref.: 00.112.02)
AO3693
PRE-DEVELOPMENT
OF ALADIN INSTRUMENT FOR THE
ATMOSPHERIC
DYNAMICS CORE EXPLORER MISSION
(Open from
13/03/2000 to 08/05/2000, Act.Ref.: 00.1JP.01)
For more information and the complete list of ESA Tender Actions
please look at:
http://emits.esa.int/emits/OpenTenders
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Richard Marsden, ESA science programme
Maurizio Candidi, CNR
Paul Cannon, URSI-Commission G
Mike Hapgood, EGS
Hannu Koskinen, SCOSTEP working group on Space weather
Pierre Lantos, ISES
Henrik Lundstedt, Lund space weather center
Goetz Paschmann, ISSI
Jean-Yves Prado, CNES-ONERA working group on space weather
Michael Rycroft, ISU
Volker Bothmer, EGS-Solar Physics Secretary
Wolfgang Baumjohann, MPE-German Representative
Jinbin Cao, Chinese Space Weather Activity Representative
Barbara Poppe, NOAA Space Environment Centre
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