CEDAR email: 2024 IMCP Workshop

[lwren at spaceweather.ac.cn]

Dear CEDAR Community members，

We are excited to announce the the Workshop of  Monitoring Geospace Disturbances from the Ground: Scientific Challenges, Observational networks, and International Collaboration (2024 IMCP Workshop) will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, in September 23-27, 2024. 
  
Understanding the fundamental geospace processes that shape our solar-terrestrial environment, encompassing the entangled coupling of magnetosphere, ionosphere, upper atmosphere, lower atmosphere and Solid Earth, is a crucial objective for the world Space Weather community as well as a major societal challenge. To properly address this scientific challenge and make progress on space weather specification and forecast capabilities, the development of synergistic uses of ground-based geospace monitoring, space-borne observations and sophisticated modeling tools is mandatory. With major space missions such as SMILE, GDC, and DYNAMIC targeting global geospace system science on the horizon, coordinated operation of world-wide ground-based observation networks over long periods will be critical to study the diverse multi-scale, multi-regions coupling processes impacting geospace at temporal scales ranging from minutes to decades and even longer.
 
Workshop Objectives 
The main objective of the 2024 IMCP Workshop in Sao Paulo, Brazil is to advocate the unique contributions of ground-based observations and the particular significance of global and regional collaboration in addressing the broad challenges of understanding and monitoring geospace. The Workshop will be the ideal platform to showcase cross-scale and interdisciplinary discoveries, and enhance observational effectiveness through organized networks for ground-based observational coordination. An illustrative example of collaborative global network is the International Meridian Circle Program (IMCP). IMCP focuses on geospace observation and research along the two Great Meridian Circles spanning 120°E/60°W longitudes (encompassing the Asian-Australian, North American, and South American regions) as well as 30°E/150°W Europe-Africa and Central Pacific longitudes. Dozens of observational facilities in the Chinese sectors, as part of the Chinese Meridian Project, constitute one of the cornerstones for the IMCP eastern hemisphere.
 
Scientific Programme
The scientific programme of the workshop, which will take place during the peak of the present solar cycle, will cover the broad spectrum of phenomena which contribute in an intricately way to the variability of our space environment: solar and geomagnetic activities, geospace disturbances, atmospheric weather and climate,  earth magnetic field variations, and solid earth hazards. Its open format will facilitate in-depth discussions on the sources of space weather variability and modeling of geospacer disturbances, and foster the emergence of new ideas for instrumentation and international coordination using IMCP and other networks. 
 

A great venue at a symbolic time
Scheduled for the week of September 23-27, 2024, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the workshop will coincide with the 63th anniversary of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the 10th anniversary of the China-Brazil Joint Laboratory for Space Weather (CBJLSW). This venue, which symbolizes the spirit of collaboration and excellence in space weather research, will be the ideal place for the international community to engage in discussions about geospace disturbances monitoring,  space/ground-based coordination, and modeling.
 
We look forward to welcoming you to Sao Paulo's amazing spring!
 
 
Important Dates
Workshop Dates: 23-27 September, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July, 2024
Registration Deadline: 1st September, 2024
 
Organizing Committee Co-Chairs 
Chi Wang, National Space Science Center(NSSC), CAS 
Clezio De Nardin, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Shun-Rong Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
Michel Blanc, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie(IRAP), Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France
 
LOC and Contact information
Liwen Ren (lwren at spaceweather.ac.cn)
Patrícia Leite (patricia.leite at inpe.br)
Sheila.huang (sheila.huang at nssc.ac.cn)
Zhengkuan Liu (liuzhengkuan at nssc.ac.cn)



Liwen Ren
International Meridian Circle Program(IMCP) Manager
National Space Science Center(NSSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) 
Beijing, China
lwren at spaceweather.ac.cn
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