IRF Kiruna

The 12th EISCAT International Workshop

Incoherent Scatter Radar School

15-26 August 2005

Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Space Campus, Kiruna, Sweden

The Incoherent Scatter Radar School, 1st week

15-19 August 2005

Lecturers:

• Tony van Eyken(TvE), EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden

• Gudmund Wannberg (GW), EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden

• Assar Westman (AW), EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden

• Ingemar Häggström (IH), EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden

• Jussi Markkanen (JM), EISCAT Scientific Association, Finland

• Ian McCrea (IMC), Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, UK

• Vikki Howells (VH), Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, UK

• Asta Pellinen-Wannberg (APW), Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden

• Lars-Göran Vanhainen (LGV), EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden

PROGRAMME

MONDAY, 15 August (Lecture Hall Aula)

9.00 Welcome and general information about the 1st week of the radar school (APW)
9.40-10.30 The EISCAT facility in the world (TvE)

10.30 Coffee break

11.00-11.30 Basic scattering theory (GW)

11.30-12.30 Lunch

12.30-13.30 Incoherent scatter radar techniques - an overview (GW)
13.45-14.45 Review of the EISCAT radar hardware (GW)

14.45 Coffee break

15.30-16.00 Signal processing (AW)
16. 15 The EROS user interface (JM)

17.30 Hamburger party at the Space Campus

TUESDAY, 16 August (Aula, EISCAT receiver station)

9.00 How data is stored (AW)
9.30 Runtime tools (IH)

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30Output data structure and organisation, RTGRAPH (AW, IH)
11.00 EROS commands (JM)

11.30-13.00 Lunch

13.00 Files required to define and run an experiment (AW)
14.00 Excursion to the Kiruna EISCAT site (LGV, GW, AW, IH)

WEDNESDAY, 17 August (EISCAT receiver station)

10.00-16.00 Running the CP-1 program on the EISCAT UHF radar at the Kiruna site (IH, AW, GW, site staff)

THURSDAY, 18 August (Aula, Computer Hall at Department of Space Science)

9. 00 Properties of signal/ambiguity functions (IMC)

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.30 Systematic and random errors (IMC)

11.30-13.00 Lunch

13.00-16.00 EISCAT data analysis (IH)

FRIDAY, 19 August (Aula, Computer Hall at Department of Space Science)

9.00 Data analysis continues (IH)

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.30 Velcom - combining three measured velocity components with the tristatic EISCAT UHF to a velocity vector (VH)

11.30-13.00 Lunch

13.00-14.00 Velcom practical (VH)

14.00-14.30 Coffee break

14.30-15.30 Manipulating analysed data, E fields, B fields (VH)
15.30-16.30 Practical (VH)

The Incoherent Scatter Radar School, 2nd week

22-26 August 2005

PROGRAMME

MONDAY, 22 August

8.30-12.05 Advanced incoherent scatter (Prof. Cesar la Hoz, Tromsø University)

13.30-15.05 Methods of radar modulation (Prof. Tuomo Nygren, University of Oulu)

15.30-17.05 Atmospheric studies with incoherent scatter radars (Prof. Sheila Kirkwood, Swedish Institute of Space Physics)

TUESDAY, 23 August

8.30-11.15 Aurora and auroral studies with incoherent scatter radars (Dr Kari Kaila, University of Oulu)

11.55-13.30 Ionospheric studies with incoherent scatter radars (Dr Anja Strømme, EISCAT Scientific Association)

Visit to the LKAB iron mine

WEDNESDAY, 24 August

8.30-10.05 Magnetospheric studies with incoherent scatter radars (Dr Anja Strømme, EISCAT Scientific Association)

11.30-12.05 Heating studies with incoherent scatter radars (Dr Mike Rietveld, EISCAT Scientific Association)

Excursion to the Swedish Space Corporation Esrange Launch Site

THURSDAY, 25 August

8.30-10.05 ALIS, an multi-station optical imager as support for EISCAT studies (Dr Björn Gustavsson, Tromsø University)

10.30-12.05 Interferometric studies with incoherent scatter radars (Dr Tom Grydeland, University of Tromsø)

13.30-15.05 Interplanetary scintillation studies (Dr Andy Breen, University of Aberystwyth)

15.30-16.15 Space debris studies with EISCAT (Dr Jussi Markkanen, EISCAT Scientific Association)

16.20-17.05 Meteor and dust studies with High Power Large Aperture Radars (Dr Asta Pellinen-Wannberg, Swedish Institute of Space Physics)

FRIDAY, 26 August

8.30-10.05 LOIS (Prof. Bo Thidé, Swedish Institute of Space Physics)

10.30-12.05 Jicamarca ISR (Prof. Ron Woodman, Jicamarca Radio Observatory)

13.30-15.05 AMISR (Dr Craig Heinselman, SRI International)

15.30-17.05 An overview of Virtual Observatories and Data Interfaces for

Atmospheric Science (Dr Bill Rideout, MIT Haystack Observatory)

Taco party