I*Y and Space Weather
Richard StamperCCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Co-Chair, IHY Campaign Coordination
Third European Space Weather Week, Brussels, 13-17 November 2006
Thanks to the IHY and ICESTAR teams for material, particularly
• Carine Briand• Kirsti Kauristie• Nat Gopalswamy
Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958
… and start of the Space Age
International Polar Year (IPY)Studies of, and from, the Polar regions
2007-2009
International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE)“The largest database of information about the past and present status of planet Earth that has ever existed” (2008, Focused on Earth Sciences)
Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY)“21st Century e-Science approach to issues of data stewardship…
The development of Virtual Observatories and Laboratories … “(2007-2008, Covered in the next talk)
International Heliophysical Year (IHY)Physics of the heliosphere2007-2009
I*Y : Benefits for Space Weather
• Better visibility– Of on-going and planned research and programs
• Better science– Impetus to improve understanding of science behind space weather
impacts– Encouraging holistic and systems thinking
• Better data– Spur to more and improved instrumentation– Improved access (eGY)
• Better awareness– Excellent opportunity for public outreach
Despite IHY and IPY • Being focused on Space Science rather than Space Weather• Having little direct funding of their own
They are providing, or will provide:
Science, Observatory Development, Outreach, History
ihy2007.org
THEME 1Evolution and Generation of Magnetic Structures and Transients
Theme 2Energy Transfer and Coupling
Processes
Theme 3Flows and Circulations
Theme 4Boundaries and Interfaces
Theme 5Synoptic Studies of the 3-D Coupled Solar-Planetary-Heliospheric System
IHY Science Themes
IHY: Science CoordinationCoordinated Investigation
Programmes– Mechanism for proposing, or
advertising, work benefiting from or requiring collaboration and coordination
– “Bottom-up” approach, anyone can propose
– On-line form and database– 50 currently proposed
Grouped into 7 disciplines : Solar; Heliosphere/Cosmic Rays; Magnetospheres; Ionized Atmospheres; Neutral Atmospheres; Climate; Astrobiology/Space Medicine
Discipline Coordinators recruited for the disiciplines:To help make connections between related proposalsAssist proposers in gaining access to resources (observing time, data, funding)
Endorsed by SCAR’s Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences
July 28, 2004
Five-year international scientific research programme for coordinated bi-polar research in the fields of STP and polar aeronomy
ICESTARInterhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research
ContactsKirsti Kauristie (FMI, Finland)
Allan Weatherwax (Siena College, USA)
International Polar YearSix Broad Themes
Status of environment Change, past and futureGlobal Linkages New Frontiers in scienceVantage point Human Issues
Science program “Expressions of Interest”
>1000, grouped into ~50 clusters, covering all areas of polar science
IHY and ICESTAR asked to lead one cluster
Full Proposal #63Heliosphere Impact on Geospace
Umbrella proposal incorporating 29 EoIsInvolvement of 22 nations including Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden, UK, Ukraine.
Led by Kirsti Kauristie (FMI, for ICESTAR), Richard Harrison (RAL, for IHY)
www.ipy.org
I*Y : Visibility of work
Some overlap and increased scope for collaboration• IHY Discipline Coordinators working to build connections • Clusters of CIPs, IPY EoIs and ICESTAR projects identified
(Thanks to Kirsti Kauristie for leading this to date)• Three are closely related to Space Weather
– Antarctic Space Weather– Plasmaspheric Dynamics– Radio wave propagation in the ionosphere - observations and models
• More information on these will follow as they develop
IHY CIPs –http://ihy2007.org.uk/CIPs.shtm–Links through to individual CIP web sites where available
IPY projects in ICESTAR/IHY–http://www.ava.fmi.fi/ipyid63/ipyid63_projects.html–Links to IPY EoI and Full Proposal information
I*Y : Advances in Science
CME onset and propagation
CIP 1 – Development of Algorithms for CME Onset and Earth-Arrival Predictions
• Coronal dimming
• STEREO HI for propagation
Thinking GloballyCIP 2 – Real-time Global Ionosphere
CIP 4 – Global Plasmaspheric Dynamics
CIP 43 – SMEI and IPS 3D heliospheric analysis comparison with Ulysses and other NASA Spacecraft
IPY EoI 14 – Greenland IPY 2007 Space Science Symposium“Transport in the Coupled Solar Wind – Geospace System seen from a High-Latitude Vantage Point”
CASS/UCSD animation of tomographic reeconstruction of SW density following a CME launched 26 July 2002 using Stelab IPS data ([email protected])
I*Y : New InstrumentationUN Basic Space Science Initiative
(UNBSSI)• Program of the UN Office for Outer
Space Affairs (UNOOSA)• Focus for 2005-2009 is IHYGoal : deploy global arrays of small,
inexpensive instrumentsModel : partnership between
instrument providers and hostsMethod : UN/ESA/NASA workshops • 2005 : 20-23/1, El Ain, UAE• 2006 : 27/11 – 1/12, Bangalore, India• 2007 : Japan
ContactsNat Gopalswamy (GSFC)Hans Haubold (UNOOSA)
UNBSSI Example : CALLISTO
Science
• 24 hour coverage of solar activity
• Detect electron beams and CME-driven shocks
• Existing in Switzerland, US
• Being deployed in India, Mexico, Costa Rica
• Network with Hiraiso?
Technical Dual-channel frequency-agile receiver• Based on commercially available
consumer electronics• Low cost for hardware and software• Short assembly time
Compound Astronomical Low-cost Low-frequency Instrument for Spectroscopy and Transportable Observatory
PI: A.Benz, ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland
I*Y : Outreach
Outreach a major component of both IHY and IPY
– Activities planned globally and nationally
– E.g. European IHY “Open Doors day http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/IHY/
Take advantage of the opportunity
50th birthday of the Space Age
In 1957 • Exploring the edge of our atmosphereIn 2007• Exploring the edge of our heliosphere
Space Weather is a natural new frontierSputnik-1 Explorer-1
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