CEDAR email: meetings in Finland, Taiwan; model input for CEDAR Challenge due

[Barbara Emery]

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 04 Mar 2011.
Meetings and jobs are listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu under
'Community' as 'Calendar of Meetings' and 'CEDAR related opportunities'.
CEDAR email messages are under 'Community' as 'CEDAR email Newsletters'.
All are in 'Quick Links' on the main page.
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(1) 38th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, 
Siuntio, Finland, 22-26 August, abstracts due 15 May.
 From Noora Partamies <Noora.Partamies at fmi.fi> and Carl-Fredrik Enell 
<carl-fredrik.enell at sgo.fi>.
See also http://www.sgo.fi/38AM/

(2) August 8-12, 2011, AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society),  Taipei - 
Abstracts due by March 15 via the MARS (Management and Review of Submissions) 
system at http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2011/.
* ST01: “Variability in the ionosphere and thermosphere”
 From Yonglian Zhang <Yongliang.Zhang at jhuapl.edu>.

(3) Final call for participation in the first round of the CEDAR ETI Challenge - 
due 31 March.
 From Ja Soon Shim (jasoon.shim at nasa.gov).
See also http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/CETI2010/.

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(1) 38th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, 
Siuntio, Finland, 22-26 August, abstracts due 15 May.
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 From Noora Partamies <Noora.Partamies at fmi.fi> and Carl-Fredrik Enell 
<carl-fredrik.enell at sgo.fi>.

We have now opened the registration and the abstract submission for the 38th 
Annual European Meeting on
Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, to be held in Siuntio in southern 
Finland on 22-26 August, 2011.
The deadline is 15 May.

Optical methods have been used for studies of the atmosphere for centuries. A 
wealth of information about the whole atmosphere, from the troposphere to the 
thermosphere, can be obtained by active or passive optical measurements. Recent 
technological developments have also opened up a panorama of new possibilities 
for high-resolution measurements and measurements coordinated with other types 
of instruments.

The Annual European Meetings on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods bring 
together scientists from Europe as well as from other parts of the world to 
exchange experience, share scientific results, and plan and coordinate future 
experiments.

Intercalibration of light standards will also again take place during this 
meeting. Thus participants can bring their own light sources to calibrate.

For more information, please visit http://www.sgo.fi/38AM/

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee of 38AM

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(2) August 8-12, 2011, AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society),  Taipei - 
Abstracts due by March 15 via the MARS (Management and Review of Submissions) 
system at http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2011/.
* ST01: “Variability in the ionosphere and thermosphere”
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 From Yonglian Zhang <Yongliang.Zhang at jhuapl.edu>.

Session Description:

The ionosphere and thermosphere (IT) change continuously due to energy and 
momentum inputs from the solar radiation, solar wind, magnetosphere and lower 
atmosphere. The thermosphere and ionosphere are also strongly coupled.

Variations in the ionosphere and thermosphere cover a wide range of time and 
spatial scales which are associated with difference processes. Over the past 
years, significant advance has been achieved for a better understanding of the 
IT variations, such as their solar cycle dependence (especially during the 
current prolonged solar minimum), long term trend, response to periodic changes 
in solar wind, effect of tidal forcing, rapid global and local response to 
intense geomagnetic storms and other natural events (such as earthquake). The 
condition of IT system also has feedback effect on the magnetosphere. The 
improved understanding of the IT variations significantly benefits the space 
weather now cast and forecast. We welcome papers involving studies of the 
ionosphere and thermosphere variations based on data analysis, theoretical work, 
simulation, assimilation and empirical modeling. We also welcome papers 
proposing new observations and/or campaigns to address specific issues in IT 
variations.

Conveners: Yongliang Zhang (Yongliang.zhang at jhuapl.edu), Beichen Zhang 
(zhangbeichen at pric.gov.cn), and Minoru Kubota (mkubota at nict.go.jp)

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(3) Final call for participation in the first round of the CEDAR ETI Challenge - 
due 31 March.
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 From Ja Soon Shim (jasoon.shim at nasa.gov).

The final deadline for simulation results submissions to be included in the 
report on the first round of the Challenge is March 31, 2011. All participants 
to the Challenge will be co-authors of the papers, which will be used as 
important benchmark references for further studies. It is still possible to get 
involved. Please submit your model results using the CCMC on-line submission 
interface.

The outcome of the preliminary round of model output comparisons with 
observations was discussed at the CEDAR 2010 workshop. The report of the first 
round of the Challenge was presented at the AGU 2010 Fall Meeting.

For the Challenge, nine time intervals and six physical parameters (NmF2 and 
hmF2 from ISRs and COSMIC satellites, vertical and horizontal drifts at 
Jicamarca, and electron and neutral densities along the track of the CHAMP 
satellite) were selected. The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at 
the Goddard Space Flight Center is supporting the activity. The time intervals, 
physical parameters, and observational data for the Challenge selected are 
available at the CCMC web site (http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/CETI2010). 
Initial setup for the Challenge planned at the first CETI Workshop are available 
at the 2009 CEDAR Workshop webpage 
(http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2009_Workshop:CEDAR_ETI_Challenge), 
described in the 2010 CETI Workshop at the 2010 CEDAR Workshop
(http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2010_Workshop:CEDAR_ETI_Challenge).

Further details of the Challenge and instructions on how to participate can be 
found at the CCMC web site: http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/CETI2010/.

The results of the CEDAR ETI Challenge together with results of the first round 
of the GEM GGCM Challenge will be used as a benchmark for the joint CEDAR-GEM 
Modeling Challenge project that will address effects of geospace/IT model 
coupling on metrics results. The project will be discussed at the joint 
CEDAR-GEM 2011 Workshop 26 June to 1 July in Santa Fe, NM. Further details can 
be found at 
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Modeling_Challenge.

Please send questions and comments to
*Masha Kuznetsova (Maria.M.Kuznetsova at nasa.gov<mailto:Maria.M.Kuznetsova at nasa.gov>)
*Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu<mailto:emery at ucar.edu>)
*JaSoon Shim (jasoon.shim at nasa.gov<mailto:jasoon.shim at nasa.gov>)

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