CEDAR email: Call for papers for URSI GASS 2023 Scientific event G04 (International Reference Ionosphere)

[Vladimir Truhlik]

Dear Colleagues,

The next URSI GASS 2023 will take place in Sapporo, Japan on Aug. 19 – 
26, 2023. Please visit the web page at https://www.ursi-gass2023.jp/ for 
details.

The Call for Papers is open, submission deadline is 25 January 2023 
(extended abstracts or summary papers - 
https://www.ursi-gass2023.jp/paper_submission.html) and we would like to 
draw your attention to the scientific event G04 International Reference 
Ionosphere: Improvement, Validation and Usage.

The session is organized by the COSPAR/URSI IRI Working Group and 
solicits presentations discussing improvements, validation, and usage of 
ionospheric models with special focus on the International Reference 
Ionosphere (IRI). IRI is an empirical model that was built with a large 
volume of space- and ground-based data and is recognized as the 
international standard for Earth’s ionosphere. Parameters represented by 
the IRI model include electron density, ion composition, electron 
temperature, ion temperature, ionospheric total electron content, 
vertical ion drift at equatorial latitudes, F1 layer and spread-F 
occurrence probabilities, and a kp-driven representation of auroral oval 
boundaries. This session aims at reviewing the status of the IRI project 
and invites talks and posters that report on comparisons of IRI model 
parameters with measurements and potential improvements of the model. 
Contributions that introduce new modeling approaches or new data sources 
are particularly welcome. Of special interest are studies that use 
assimilative techniques to bring IRI closer to representing real-time 
conditions.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Sapporo,

Dieter Bilitza dbilitza at gmu.edu
Vladimir Truhlik vtr at ufa.cas.cz
Shigeto Watanabe shw at ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp