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An ICTP Virtual Meeting

This Workshop will give the participants an in-depth view of Space Weather, including its main effects on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and related scientific and technological applications. Focus will be on Space Weather research and capacity building in the Eastern African Countries.

Description:
Space Weather is a term generally used to indicate “the conditions on the Sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human life or health”.  In particular, Space Weather is the cause of the most significant errors experienced by GNSS and their users since through its effects on the ionosphere, it represents the largest error contribution in the GNSS single-frequency positioning applications. The effects of space weather are more variable and highly unpredictable over the low latitude ionospheric regions, where most of the sub-Saharan Developing Countries are located and where still limited efforts have been made to study the impact of Space Weather events on technological systems.

Topics:
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems generalities
• Space Weather and Sun-Earth coupling
• Ionospheric monitoring and modelling
• Ionospheric irregularities
• Space weather services and programmes

Speakers:
K. Alazo, ICTP, Italy
C. Amory-Mazaudie, LPP-CNRS, France
P. Baki, Technical University Kenya
C. Cesaroni, INGV, Italy
P. Doherty, Boston College, USA
S. Gadimova, UNOOSA-ICG, Vienna
K. Groves, Boston College, USA
J.B. Habarulema, SANSA/AFIPS, South Africa
K. Kauristie, FMI, Finland
Y. Migoya-Orue', ICTP, Italy
B. Nava, ICTP, Italy
D. Okoh, NASRDA, Nigeria
J.C. Olwendo, Pwani University, Kenya
B. Rabiu, NASRDA, Nigeria
S.M. Radicella, ICTP, Italy
L. Spogli, INGV, Italy
K. Venkatesh, NARL, India


Registration:  There is no registration fee

 

Material

Eastern Africa GNSS and Space Weather Capacity Building Workshop | (smr 3603)
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  • Monday, 21 June 2021
    • 13:00 - 13:40 OPENING
      • 13:00 WELCOME 40' 
        ICTP - Bruno Nava 
PU - Mohamed Rajab
KSA - Andrew Nyawade
INGV - Claudio Cesaroni
BC - Pat Doherty
UNOOSA-ICG - Sharafat Gadimova
    • 13:40 - 16:00 SESSION 1
      • 13:40 GNSS Fundamentals 1h0'
        Speaker: John RAQUET (Integrated Solutions for Systems, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:40 Coffee break 10'
      • 14:50 Space Weather - The Sun-Earth coupling 1h0'
        Speaker: Christine AMORY-MAZAUDIE (LPP-CNRS, France)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:50 Questions & Answers 10'
  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
    • 13:00 - 16:00 SESSION 2
      • 13:00 Introduction to the Ionosphere 1h0'
        Speaker: Sandro RADICELLA (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 Introduction to Ionospheric modelling 30'
        Speaker: Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:30 Coffee break 15'
      • 14:45 Introduction to Ionospheric Irregularities and Scintillations 1h0'
        Speaker: Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Slides movie
      • 15:45 Questions & Answers 15'
  • Wednesday, 23 June 2021
    • 13:00 - 16:00 SESSION 3
      • 13:00 Low latitude ionosphere - Equatorial electrojet 40'
        Speaker: Babatunde RABIU (NASRDA, Nigera)
        Material: Slides
      • 13:40 Low latitude ionosphere - Ionospheric Irregularities Across African Sector: Observation perspective 40'
        Speaker: Joseph OLWENDO (Pawani University, Kenya)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:20 Coffee break 15'
      • 14:35 Low latitude ionosphere - Ionospheric scintillations (ground based climatology) 40'
        Speaker: Luca SPOGLI (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:15 Questions & Answers 45'
  • Thursday, 24 June 2021
    • 13:00 - 16:00 SESSION 4
      • 13:00 Sounding the ionosphere with GNSS - TEC calibration 30'
        Speaker: Katy ALAZO (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 13:30 Modelling TEC over Africa - NN approach 30'
        Speaker: Daniel OKOH (NASRDA, Nigeria)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 Tavelling ionospheric disturbances 30'
        Speaker: John Bosco HABARULEMA (SANSA/AFIPS, South Africa)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:30 Coffee break 15'
      • 14:45 Space weather service for civil aviation - PECASUS consortium 30'
        Speaker: Kirsti KAURISTI (FMI, Finland)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:15 Questions & Answers 15'
  • Friday, 25 June 2021
    • 13:00 - 16:00 SESSION 5
      • 13:00 Exploiting data for ionospheric research 30'
        Speaker: Anthea COSTER (MIT Haystack Observatory, USA)
        Material: Slides notes
      • 13:30 Data Assimilation and Ingestion into NeQuick and IRI models using ground and space based ionospheric data 30'
        Speaker: Yenca MIGOYA-ORUE' (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 NORISK - Contributing to Kenyan space weather research capbilities 15'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:15 Coffee break 15'
      • 14:30 Future opportunities for African Space weather research 15'
        Speaker: Paul BAKI (Technical University, Kenya)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:45 Questions & Answers 30'
      • 15:15 CLOSING REMARKS 45'
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