| Space Weather Euro News Vol.5 Issue 03 (08-03-2001)
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1. Reports from the ESA Space Weather study
2. Space Weather and Space Environment Effects Issues
at 52nd IAC
3. Solar Cycle and Space Weather EuroConference
4. Radiation Belt Science & Technology Conference
(ISEC2001)
5. IAGA session on geomagnetic indices
6. Some ESA Tender Actions from ESA EMITS
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1.Reports from the ESA Space Weather study
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From: Mike Hapgood
Two reports from one of the studies of an ESA Space Weather Programme
have now
been completed and are available for public distribution.
These are:
1. A Catalogue of Space Weather Effects. This report was produced by
Finnish Meteorlogical Institute (FMI) and is available as a PDF file (184k)
on
http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/SWstudy/public/esws-fmi-rp-0001_2.2.pdf.
2. Benefits of a European Space Weather Programme. This report was produced
by the
UK Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) and is available as a
PDF file (504k)
on http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/SWstudy/public/tr110v2_1b.pdf
For overall details of our study, please see the study home page on
http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/SWstudy/.
The documents above can also be accessed via the 'public documents' link
on that home page. Further documents will be added to that page as more
work packages are completed. If you have anyqueries on the above, please
contact Mike
Hapgood, the study manager at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Note:
Copies
of these documents are also available on the ESA server:
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2. Space Weather and Space Environment Effects Issues at 52nd IAC.
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From: Manola Romero
The 52nd International Astronautical Congress will be held in Toulouse
France,
October 1-5 2001. As Co-Chairman with Macgregor REID of Session IAA
6.3,
"Space Weather and Space Environment Effects Issues", I'd like to remind
you are
welcome to submit abstracts to participate to this opportunity to promote
our field of
interest. Abstracts are to be submitted as indicated in the Abstract
Information Form to
the IAF Secretariat with copy to
me and to Mr
Reid.
I rely on you to convey this message to the right people in your
respective entities/ organisations/ companies/ agencies.
Looking forward seeing some of you in Toulouse in October,
Best regards,
Manola ROMERO
Co-Chair Session IAA 6.3
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3. Solar Cycle and Space Weather EuroConference
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From: Brigitte Schmieder
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
"SOLAR CYCLE AND SPACE
WEATHER EUROCONFERENCE"
September 25 - 29 2001
Vico Equense, Napoli, Italy
http://www.na.astro.it/meetings/solspa2001/
A series of two meetings under the general title of Solar Cycle and
Space Weather Euroconferences (SOLSPA) has been approved by the European
Union for the years
2000 and 2001. The series is aimed at gathering, around selected topics
of interest to
solar physics, senior and junior researchers (from both the theoretical
and the observational fields) and instrument technology experts, for better
profiting from new ideas and instrumentation. The European Union co-sponsors
the series by funding half of the budget.
It is our pleasure to announce the second meeting of the series,
titled: "Solar Cycle and Space Weather", that will be held
in Vico Equense (Napoli, Italy) from 25th to 29th September, 2001.
The focus of this second Euroconference will be on theory and observations
of the solar activity phenomena during the cycle and their influence on
the heliosphere, in particular the near-earth environment. The meeting
is taking place around the time of solar maximum, hence it will be
nicely timed to present and discuss a wide range of solar and geomagnetic
events and their influence on human activities and space technology.
A powerful fleet of strategically positioned spacecraft, both in operation
(Yohkoh, SOHO, TRACE, Ulysses, Cluster, IMAGE, WIND) and planned for launch
in the next future (CORONAS, HESSI, STEREO) will provide new results to
be presented during the conference. As well known, Cluster together with
SOHO comprise the Solar Terrestrial
Science Programme, the first Corner stone of the ESA 2000 Programme.
New ground based solar telescopes and instruments, including world-wide
networks of synoptic observations, will supply high resolution images and
vector magnetic field to complement the spacecrafts
capabilities.
The conference program will be roughly divided in four major topics:
Solar drivers; Propagation of disturbances through space; Near-earth (geomagnetic)
effects; Space
weather impact. A special session on National Initiatives on
Space Weather will conclude
the meeting.
The meeting aims at bringing together different categories of researchers
such as solar and heliospheric physicists, and involving industrialists
interested in solar effects on telecommunications, aerospace hardware and
new technology in general. The participation
of young researchers, post doctoral and PhD students will strongly
be encouraged and supported. Their active participation in this highly
interdisciplinary science will be sought
and promoted.
Further information on the meeting, including the preliminary scientific
program, pre-registration forms, and T&A grant requests can be found
at http://www.na.astro.it/meetings/solspa2001/
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4. Radiation Belt Science & Technology Conference (ISEC2001)
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From: Eamonn Daly
The announcement, abstract submission procedure and other details of
the above conference, which will be held in New Zealand in July 2001, can
be found at: http://spacsun.rice.edu/~aac/isec2001/
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This is the seventh in a series of international meetings devoted to
advancing our understanding of Earth's space environment and its effects
on technology and on humans in space. The primary emphasis will be radiation
belt science and technology, but papers on other energetic charged particles
and their effects are also encouraged. Topics to be covered include:
o Theory, modelling and observations of radiation belt particles, cosmic
rays and solar energetic particle events.
o ULF and VLF waves and their effects on energetic charged particles.
o Radiation effects on spacecraft and on humans in space.
o Radiation dose models and measurements, radiation shielding and radiation
transport codes.
o Aspects of space weather relevant to the radiation belts.
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5. IAGA session on geomagnetic indices
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From: Christopher Balch
A session " Derivation, Interpretation and Use of Geomagnetic Indices"
will be held at the IAGA meeting in Vietnam 2001, August 24. We
especially hope for communication between the users and the producers
of the indices. Abstracts may be submitted at the meeting's web site:
http://www.IAGAandIASPEI.org.vn
. While the deadline was 1 March, we
will try to accommodate abstracts received late if this is possible.
In addition - I am gathering information on the usefulness of
geomagnetic indices which I plan to summarize and present to the
session - if you have any comments on the value of these products for
your work please send those along to me.
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6. Some ESA Tender Actions from ESA EMITS
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AO3806
ANALYSIS OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL REQUIREMENTS: EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTION
TO
A GLOBAL MONITORING SYSTEM
(From 19/02/2001 to 19/04/2001, Act.Ref.: 00.155.02)
AO3884
GALILEO PHASE B2
(From 01/03/2001 to 12/04/2001, Act.Ref.: 01.154.01)
AO3791
FUTURE EARTH OBSERVATION MISSIONS: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY 2) CONSIDERATION
OF A MISSION STUDYING THE CHEMISTRY OF THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER
STRATOSPHERE
(From 12/02/2001 to 05/04/2001, Act.Ref.: 99.1JP.02)
AO3817
DEFINITION STUDY OF THE BEPICOLOMBO MISSION
(From 31/01/2001 to 22/03/2001, Act.Ref.: 00.160.05)
AO3591
HIGH LEVEL INFORMATION PRODUCT GENERATION AND FORMATTING FOR SPECIFIC
APPLICATIONS
(From 30/01/2001 to 30/03/2001, Act.Ref.: 00.187.02)
For more information and the complete List of ESA Tender Action please
look at:
http://emits.esa.int/emits/owa/anonymous.main_menu
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Note: This newsletter is an initiative of the
ESA Space Systems Environment Analysis Section
is intended to establish a prototype of a potential mailing list or
forum with news of interest for the Space Weather community in Europe.
- SWEN contact group (which keeps SWEN informed of news coming
from
other channels)is currently:
Eamonn Daly, ESA (excluding science programme)
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 Programme Directorate
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
- SWEN archives are also available on:
http://www.lund.irf.se/HeliosHome/SWEN/spweuro.html
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We are looking forward to receiving your inputs.
The SWEN editor
Alain Hilgers
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