CEDAR email: Joint CEDAR/GEM Session: Geospace Empirical Models Tutorials

[John Emmert]

Dear Colleagues,

 

We invite you to attend the Workshop "Geospace Empirical Models" on
Thursday, June 23, 1:30-3:30 PM, in the Peralta/Lamy rooms of the Santa Fe
Convention Center. 

 

Workshop Description:

Empirical models, which usually incorporate key physical constraints,
provide several critical functions in geospace science and space weather.
Scientifically, they represent the climate of the geospace system, where
climate is defined as the mean response of an environmental system to
external and internal forcing, including short-term forcing. Empirical
models' encapsulation of the observational record of the geospace system
provides insight into the physical mechanisms underlying the system's
response and serves as a stringent benchmark for validating first-principles
models. Empirical models are widely used for space weather prediction,
initial and boundary conditions, a priori estimation for measurement
retrieval, and background conditions for wave propagation. This workshop
will provide tutorials on major empirical models that are used in the
geospace community, including NRLMSIS, HWM, IRI, and the Weimer
high-latitude electrodynamics model. Each model's formulation and physics,
assimilated data, recent development, operation, and limitations will be
discussed. Abstracts and more details on the workshop may be found at
http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2016_Workshop:Geospace_Empirical
_Models#Justification_for_the_workshop. 

 

Agenda:

Time      Speaker                               Title

1330       John Emmert                     Overview: 3 Myths about empirical
models

1335       Stefan Maus                      International Geomagnetic
Reference Field (IGRF)

1352       John Emmert                     NRLMSIS Atmosphere Temperature
and Composition Model 

1407       Jens Oberheide                Climatological Tidal Model of the
Thermosphere (CTMT) 

1424       Doug Drob                          Horizontal Wind Model (HWM)

1439       Dieter Bilitza                       International Reference
Ionosphere (IRI)

1456       Dan Weimer                       High-latitude electric field and
current models 

1513       Paul O'Brien                       AE-9/AP-9 Radiation belt
models

 

Looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe!

 

Best Regards from the conveners,

John Emmert (john.emmert at nrl.navy.mil)

Dan Weimer (dweimer at vt.edu)

Dieter Bilitza (dbilitza at gmu.edu)

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/cedar_email/attachments/20160615/fc6ca74f/attachment.html