Scientific Calendar Event



Description An ICTP Hybrid Meeting. You can submit your application for participation in presence or online.

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 spaceborne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human life or health".

Studies on Space Weather effects on the Earth’s ionosphere, and therefore on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), have been ongoing for several years. Nevertheless, additional efforts are still needed to increase the involvement of the scientific community in this field of research, especially from the emerging nations. This capacity building workshop is intended to provide an in-depth view of Space Weather phenomena, including their effects on technological systems.

Specific tutorials about GNSS and the exploitation of their signals for ionospheric studies will be given with the aim of enhancing the knowledge and the research capabilities of young scientists, principally from African Countries.

Moreover, group projects on GNSS data analysis to investigate the ionospheric response to Space Weather events will be performed by the participants during the workshop.

Topics:
  • GNSS generalities
  • Space Weather and Sun-Earth coupling
  • Ionospheric monitoring and modelling
  • Ionospheric measurements
  • Space Weather prediction and forecasting

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
 
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  • Monday, 3 October 2022
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Registration & Adiministrative formalities
      Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Leonardo Building. The Registration Desk will be open at the Leonardo building lobby from 9.00  to 9.30
      
      Time zone: You can choose your time zone (in place of Europe/Rome) on the top right of the page and the programme time will be modified accordingly
      Location: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) - Lobby
    • 09:30 - 16:30
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 Opening Remarks 30'
        Speaker: Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy), Sharafat GADIMOVA (UNOOSA, Austria), Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA), Joseph OLWENDO (Pwani University, Kenya), Claudio CESARONI (Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Tributes to Pat Doherty 30'
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 ICG and its programme on GNSS 30'
        Speaker: Sharafat GADIMOVA (UNOOSA, Austria)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 GNSS fundamentals I 1h0'
        Speaker: John RAQUET (Integrated Solutions for Systems, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
      • 14:00 GNSS fundamentals II 1h0'
        Speaker: John RAQUET (Integrated Solutions for Systems, USA)
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 GNSS fundamentals III 30'
        Speaker: John RAQUET (Integrated Solutions for Systems, USA)
      • 16:00 Discussion 30'
  • Tuesday, 4 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 17:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 Sun-Earth Interaction I 1h0'
        Speaker: Christine AMORY (Sorbonne Universités, France)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break & Group photo 30'
      • 11:00 Sun-Earth Interaction II 1h0'
        Speaker: Christine AMORY (Sorbonne Universités, France)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
      • 14:00 Introduction to Ionospheric physics 1h0'
        Speaker: Sandro RADICELLA (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 Introduction to Inospheric modelling 1h0'
        Speaker: Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy)
      • 16:30 Discussion 30'
    • 19:00 - 21:30 Social dinner
  • Wednesday, 5 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 17:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 Equatorial Ionosphere: Dynamics, Scientific Results and Opportunities 1h0'
        Speaker: Babatunde RABIU (Kogi State University, Nigeria)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Ionospheric irregularities 1h0'
        Speaker: Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
      • 14:00 Study time 3h0'
  • Thursday, 6 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 17:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 TEC evaluation from GNSS measurements 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 GNSS Metrology pertaining to ionospheric measurements 1h0'
        Speaker: Jayachandran THAYYIL (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
      • 14:00 Measuring Small-Scale TEC Spatial Variations and Irregularities Using Ground-Based GNSS Networks 1h0'
        Speaker: Xiaoqing PI (California Institute of Technology, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 Single Frequency Ionospheric Corrections for Galileo 1h0'
        Speaker: Bertram ARBESSER-RASTBURG (Austrian Institute of Navigation (AIN/OVN), Austria)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:30 Discussion 30'
  • Friday, 7 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 17:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 Ionospheric studies using GNSS based techniques over west Africa 1h0'
        Speaker: Olivier OBROU (Université FHB de Cocody UFR SSMT Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère, Cote d'Ivoire)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Current performance of IGS ionospheric products and future improvements. 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrzej KRANKOWSKI (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM), Space Radio-Diagnotsics Research Centre (SRRC/UWM), Poland)
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
      • 14:00 Low latitude ionosphere - Ionospheric Irregularities Across African Sector: Observation perspective 45'
        Speaker: Joseph OLWENDO (Pwani University, Kenya)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:45 The ESA Monitor Project: Ionospheric Scintillation Variability over Africa 45'
        Speaker: Yannick BENIGUEL (I.E.E.A., France)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Ionospheric effects on SBAS 45'
        Speaker: Todd WALTER (Stanford University, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:45 Discussion 15'
  • Monday, 10 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 14:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 The modern status of the theory of the high frequency wave propagation in the ionosphere I 1h0'
        Speaker: Nikolay ZERNOV (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 The modern status of the theory of the high frequency wave propagation in the ionosphere II 1h0'
        Speaker: Nikolay ZERNOV (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 17:00
      Location: SISSA Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 The MADRIGAL database 45'
        Speaker: Anthea COSTER (M.I.T. - Atmospheric Sciences Group Haystack Observatory, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:45 Climatology of GNSS scintillations at high latitudes 45'
        Speaker: Anton KASHCHEYEV (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 IGS ROTI Fluctuations maps: product, service, applications and future developments. 45'
        Speaker: Andrzej KRANKOWSKI (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM), Space Radio-Diagnotsics Research Centre (SRRC/UWM), Poland)
      • 16:45 Discussion 15'
  • Tuesday, 11 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 17:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 GNSS Astronomy: measuring the solar EUV flux rate footprint on the ionosphere with the GNSS, and beyond 1h0'
        Speaker: Manuel HERNANDEZ-PAJARES (UPC-IonSAT, Spain)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break & Group photo 30'
      • 11:00 Measuring Ionospheric Irregularities with GNSS 1h0'
        Speaker: Jade MORTON (University of Colorado, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
      • 14:00 GNSS Reflectometry Fundamentals 1h0'
        Speaker: Jim GARRISON (Purdue University, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 GNSS Reflectometry & Ionospheric Measurements 45'
        Speaker: Jade MORTON (University of Colorado, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:15 Discussion 45'
  • Wednesday, 12 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 17:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 Study time 2h30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
      • 14:00 Low cost instruments for SW applications 45'
        Speaker: Anton KASHCHEYEV (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:45 Low cost GNSS receiver for ionospheric monitoring 45'
        Speaker: Miquel GARCIA-FERNANDEZ (Rokubun, Spain)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Ionospheric irregularities from Radio Occultation data 45'
        Speaker: Charles CARRANO (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:45 Discussion 15'
  • Thursday, 13 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 14:00
      Location: SISSA Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 The NeQuick model 1h0'
        Speaker: Yenca Migoya ORUE (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Ionospheric response to geomagnetic storms 1h0'
        Speaker: Joseph OLWENDO (Pwani University, Kenya)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 17:00
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall(LB) )
      • 14:00 Detecting Equatorial Plasma Bubbles in GNSS Observation Data and Beyond 45'
        Speaker: Rezy PRADIPTA (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:45 Modelling the equatorial plasma bubbles 45'
        Speaker: John RETTERER (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 ICON/GNSS data processing for TONGA Earthquake 45'
        Speaker: Anthea COSTER (M.I.T. - Atmospheric Sciences Group Haystack Observatory, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:45 Discussion 15'
  • Friday, 14 October 2022
    • 09:30 - 12:30
      Location: ICTP ( Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) )
      • 09:30 Meteorological phenomena effects in the ionosphere 1h0'
        Speaker: Sandro RADICELLA (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Present Status of ionospheric and GNSS research infrastructure in Africa 1h0'
        Speaker: Babatunde RABIU (Kogi State University, Nigeria)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Closing remarks 30'
        Speaker: Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy), Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA), Joseph OLWENDO (Pwani University, Kenya), Claudio CESARONI (Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)