Program

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (ORAL SESSIONS)
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (POSTER SESSIONS)
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (SUMMER SCHOOL)

Summer School "Advanced Concepts in Solar-Terrestrial Coupling in the Context of Space Weather"


Sunday, July 09

08:00

09:00

REGISTRATION

09:00

09:30

OVERVIEW OF SPACE WEATHER PHENOMENA, SPATIAL DOMAINS AND MODELS

Aleksandre Taktakishvili

9:30

10:00

SOLAR MAGNETISM AND SPACE WEATHER

Dibyendu Nandi

10:00

10:30

FLARES, CMES AND THEIR SPACE WEATHER CONSEQUENCES

Karin Muglach

10:30

11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00

11:30

Q&A, DISCUSSIONS

11:30

12:00

CORONAL HOLES AND SPACE WEATHER CONSEQUENCES

Dmitry Prosovetsky

12:00

12:30

SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES AND IMPACTS

Nariaki Nitta

12:30

14:00

LUNCH

14:00

14:30

Q&A, DISCUSSIONS

14:30

15:00

SPACE WEATHER IN EARTH’S MAGNETOSPHERE

Kazuo Shiokawa

15:00

15:30

SPACE WEATHER IMPACT ON IONOSPHERE/THERMOSPHERE

Archana Bhatacharya

15:30

16:00

Q&A, DISCUSSIONS

16:00

16:30

COFFEE BREAK

16:30

17:00

SPACE WEATHER IMPACTS ON SPACE ASSETS

Aleksandre Taktakishvili

17:00

17:15

Q&A, DISCUSSIONS

17:15

18:00

OVERVIEW OF WEB-BASED RESOURCES FOR SPACE WEATHER RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND FORECASTING

Karin Muglach

 

 

The Second VarSITI General Symposium (VarSITI-2017)

 


Monday, July 10

Inaugural session

Chair: K. Shiokawa and Franz-Josef Lübken

8:00:00

9:00:00

REGISTRATION

9:00:00

9:10:00

WELCOME REMARK

Nat Gopalswamy, SCOSTEP President

9:10:00

9:20:00

WELCOME REMARK

Geliy Zherebtsov, SCOSTEP Russian Adherent Representative

9:20:00

9:30:00

WELCOME REMARK

Andrey Medvedev, Director of ISTP SB RAS

9:30:00

9:50:00

CURRENT STATUS OF SCOSTEP/VARSITI - VARIABILITY OF THE SUN AND ITS TERRESTRIAL IMPACT (2014-2018)

Kazuo Shiokawa, Katya Georgieva, VarSITI Co-Chairs

9:50:00

10:40:00

SCOSTEP AWARD CEREMONY

10:40:00

11:00:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00:00

12:00:00

SUNSPOT NUMBER SERIES REVISITED: WHERE ARE WE?

Ilya Usoskin   (keynote talk)

 

Session 2

Long-term variation of the sun, geomagnetic activity, and climate

12:00:00

12:30:00

SOLAR CYCLE PREDICTIONS AND PREDICTABILITY

Robert Harold Cameron (invited)

12:30:00

14:00:00

LUNCH

 

Session 2

Long-term variation of the sun, geomagnetic activity, and climate (continuation)

Chair: Dibyendu Nandi

14:00:00

14:30:00

THE SUN’S POLAR-FIELD REVERSAL IN THE CURRENT CYCLE: THE EFFECTS OF NORTH-SOUTH ASYMMETRY OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY

Alexander Mordvinov, Alexei  Pevtsov (invited)

14:30:00

15:00:00

LONG TERM VARIATIONS OF THE SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS

Aimee  Norton (invited)

15:00:00

15:20:00

SPACE CLIMATE IN THE HELIOSPHERE-MAGNETOSPHERE ENVIRONMENT. CONSEQUENCES IN SOLAR CYCLE 24

Venera Dobrica, Crisan Demetrescu, Cristiana Stefan

15:20:00

15:50:00

CONTRIBUTION OF TSI, SOLAR UV AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY CLIMATE AND OZONE LAYER EVOLUTION

Eugene Rozanov (invited)

15:50:00

16:20:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 2

Long-term variation of the sun, geomagnetic activity, and climate (continuation)

Chair: Eugene Rozanov

16:20:00

16:40:00

VARIATIONS OF THE SOLAR SPECTRUM IRRADIANCE IN THE VISIBLE AS OBSERVED WITH SOLAR/SOLSPEC DURING CYCLE 24

Abdanour Irbah, Luc Damé, Slimane Bekki, Mustapha Meftah, David Bolsée, Nuno Pereira

16:40:00

17:00:00

SOLAR VARIABILITY MANIFESTATIONS IN WEATHER AND CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS

Geliy Zherebtsov, Vladimir Kovalenko, Sergey Molodykh, Kiril Kirichenko

17:00:00

17:20:00

ON NON-UNIVERSALITY OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL CONNECTIONS

Lev Aron Pustilnik

17:20:00

17:50:00

IMPACT OF EPP AND GCRs ON ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRIC CIRCUIT AND CLIMATE

Irina Mironova (invited)

17:50:00

18:10:00

SCIENTIFIC HIGHLIGHTS FROM ROMIC

Franz-Josef Lübken

18:10:00

19:30:00

POSTER SESSIONS

19:30:00

22:00:00

WELCOME PARTY

 

Tuesday, July 11

 

Session 1

Solar and heliospheric drivers of earth-affecting events

Chair: Yuri Yermolaev

 

9:00:00

09:30:00

THE ORIGIN OF SOLAR FLARES AND CMES: ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES

Larisa Kashapova (invited)

9:30:00

09:50:00

STUDY OF MAGNETIC STRUCTURE AND TRIGGER MECHANISM FOR SOLAR FLARE

Johan Muhamad, Kanya Kusano, Satoshi Inoue, Daikou Shiota

9:50:00

10:10:00

WAVE DYNAMICS IN UMBRAL FLASHES

Robert Sych, Wang Min, Zhong Liu

10:10:00

10:30:00

MINGANTU SPECTRAL RADIOHELIOGRAPH FOR SOLAR TERRESTRIAL CONNECTIONS

Yihua Yan, Wei Wang, Fei Liu, Zhijun Chen, Lihong Geng, Linjie Chen

10:30:00

11:00:00

THE ORIGIN AND PROPAGATION OF SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES AND THEIR IMPACT ON EARTH

Silvia Dalla (invited)

11:00:00

11:30:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 1

Solar and heliospheric drivers of earth-affecting events (continuation)

Chair: Larisa Kashapova

 

11:30:00

11:50:00

SXR SOLAR FLARES DURING MINIMUM OF SOLAR ACTIVITY,

Magdalena Gryciuk, Marek Siarkowski, Janusz Sylwester, Szymon Gburek, Piotr Podgórski

11:50:00

12:10:00

DIAGNOSTICS OF SOLAR CORONAL PLASMAS WITH RAPIDLY PROPAGATING QUASI-PERIODIC WAVE TRAINS

Valery Nakariakov

12:10:00

12:30:00

FLARING ENERGY RELEASE AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN THE LOWER SOLAR ATMOSPHERE

Alexander Stepanov, Zaitsev Valery

12:30:00

14:00:00

LUNCH

 

Session 1

Solar and heliospheric drivers of earth-affecting events (continuation)

Chair:

Silvia Dalla

 

14:00:00

14:20:00

FLUENCE SPECTRA OF SMALL SEP EVENTS WITH METRIC TYPE II RADIO BURSTS

Pertti Makela, Nat Gopalswamy, Sachiko Akiyama, Seiji  Yashiro

14:20:00

14:50:00

INTERPLANETARY DRIVERS OF STRONG MAGNETIC STORMS

Yuri I Yermolaev, Irina G. Lodkina, Michael Yermolaev, Maria Riazantseva (invited)

14:50:00

15:10:00

ON GEOEFFECTIVENESS OF CMES DURING SC24

Diana Besliu-Ionescu, Dana Camelia Talpeanu, Marilena Mierla, Georgeta Maris Muntean

15:10:00

15:30:00

TIME- AND SPATIME AND SPATIAL PATTERNS OF SOLAR VARIABILITY INFLUENCE ON THE EARTH’S CLIMATE

Alexander Ruzmaikin, Joan Feynman

15:30:00

16:00:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 3

Coupling between the Earth's atmosphere and space and its relation to quiet and active Sun   Chair: Petra Koucka Knizova

 

16:00:00

16:30:00

STUDIES ON VERTICAL COUPLINGS BY GRAVITY WAVES OVER THE ANTARCTIC WITH THE GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Takuji Nakamura, Takashi S. Matsuda, Masaru Kogure, Mitsumu K. Ejiri, Yoshihiro Tomikawa, Takaniroi Nishiyama, Masaki Tsutsumi (invited)

16:30:00

16:50:00

SOURCES OF THE IONOSPHERIC VARIABILITY OVER EUROPE IN WINTER TIME FROM THE IONOSONDE AND GPS/GLONASS DATA

Boris Shpynev, Marina Chernigovskaya, Anna Yasyukevich, Anna Mylnikova, Petra Koucká Knížová, Daniel Kouba, Jens Mielich, Alexander Kozlovsky, Bruno Zolesi

16:50:00

17:10:00

SOLAR CYCLE  IN UV AND ITS RESPONSE IN D-REGION (3D SIMULATIONS)

Alexei Krivolutsky, Lidiya Cherepanova

17:10:00

17:30:00

IMPACT OF STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS ON THE MLT COMPOSITION AND TEMPERATURE FROM SPECTROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF OH  (6-2) AIRGLOW AT MID LATITUDES

Irina Medvedeva, Anatoly Semenov

17:30:00

17:50:00

INTER-HEMISPHERIC FIELD ALIGNED CURRENT CHARACTERISATION IN THE AFRICAN SECTOR AND ITS RESPONSE TO A 2009 SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING EVENT

Oluwafisayo Paul Owolabi, Olawale Segun Bolaji, Jacob Olusegun Adeniyi, Elijah Oyedola Oyeyemi, Babatunde Akeem Rabiu, John Bosco Habarulema, Pierre Cilliers, Lee-Anne McKinnell

 

Wednesday, July 12

 

Session 3

Coupling between the Earth's atmosphere and space and its relation to quiet and active Sun   (continuation)

Chair: Alexei Krivolutsky

 

9:00:00

09:20:00

STATISTICS OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES DURING SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS OVER EASTERN SIBERIA

Konstantin Ratovsky, Irina Medvedeva

9:20:00

09:50:00

INTERACTION OF SMALL-SCALE GRAVITY WAVES WITH THE DIURNAL TIDE FROM THE MESOSPHERE TO THE UPPER THERMOSPHERE

Erdal Yigit, Alexander S. Medvedev (invited)

9:50:00

10:10:00

NUMERICAL MODELING OF NONLINEAR ACOUSTIC-GRAVITY WAVE PROPAGATION INTO THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY

Nikolai Gavrilov, Sergej Kshevetskii, Andrej Koval

10:10:00

10:30:00

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION BASED ANALYSIS ACTIVITY IN THE IONOSPHERE USING TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT MAPS

Cenk Toker, Feza Arikan

10:30:00

11:00:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 4

Understanding the earth's space environment and its connection to space weather    Chair: Lakshmi Narayanan

 

11:00:00

11:30:00

EFFECT OF MAGNETIC STORMS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCINTILLATION-PRODUCING IRREGULARITIES IN LOW LATITUDE IONOSPHERE

Archana Bhattacharyya, Bharati Kakad, Padma Gurram, Samireddypalle Sripathi, Surendra Sunda (invited)

11:30:00

11:50:00

RECURRENT IONOSPHERIC STORMS: TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALES

Alexei Dmitriev

11:50:00

11:10:00

PC  INDEX  AS  A  PROXY  OF  THE  SOLAR  WIND  ENERGY  THAT ENTERED  INTO  THE  MAGNETOSPHERE  IN  CASE  OF   MAGNETIC STORMS

Oleg Troshichev, Dmitry Sormakov

12:10:00

12:30:00

PWING GROUND NETWORK OBSERVATION OF WAVES AND PARTICLES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE DURING THE FIRST ERG-GROUND CAMPAIGN

Kazuo Shiokawa, * PWING TEAM

12:30:00

14:00:00

LUNCH

 

Session 4

Understanding the earth's space environment and its connection to space weather  (continuation)     Chair: Archana Bhattacharyya

 

14:00:00

14:20:00

ACCELERATION OF THE ELECTRONS TO THE RELATIVISTIC ENERGIES AT THE OUTER RADIATION BELT DURING MAGNETIC STORMS AND WITHOUT IT

Vladimir Belakhovsky, Vjacheslav Pilipenko, Laura Simms, Mark Engebretson, Sergey  Samsonov

14:20:00

14:20:00

SOLAR WIND DIAMAGNETIC STRUCTURES AS THE SOURCE OF

SUBSTORM-LIKE EVENTS

Vladimir Parkhomov, Natalya Borodkova, Victor Eselevich, Maxim  Eselevich, Vitalii Chilikin, Alexei  Dmitriev

14:40:00

15:00:00

ON THE ROLE OF PLASMA SHEET STATE IN THE MAGNETOSPHERIC

PLASMA ACCELERATION, BY THE SOLAR WIND.

Nikita Stepanov, Viktor Sergeev

15:00:00

15:20:00

ANALYTIC MODEL OF CHANGES IN THE MAGNETOPAUSE SHAPE AND WITH IMF AND SOLAR WIND PARAMETERS VARIATIONS

Mikhail Verigin, Galina Kotova, Vladilen Bezrukikh

15:20:00

15:20:00

DYNAMICS AND FEATURES OF GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE DURING MAGNETIC STORMS (BASED ON GROUND STATION NETWORK)

Oksana  Mandrikova, Igor  Solovev, Sergey Khomutov, Dmitry  Baishev, Kusumita Arora, Lingala Manjula, Phani

15:40:00

16:00:00

SHORT-TIME FORECASTING OF THE MID-LATITUDE TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT WITH A MEDIAN MODEL AND A FOURIER TRANSFORMATION APPROACH

Ronny Badeke, Claudia Borries

16:00:00

16:30:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 4

Understanding the earth's space environment and its connection to space weather  (continuation)

Chair: Kazuo Shiokawa

 

16:30:00

16:50:00

FORECASTING OF GEOEFFECTIVENESS AND COSMIC RAY MODULATION INDUCED BY COROTATING INTERACTION REGIONS

Jaša Čalogović, Mateja Dumbović, Bojan Vršnak, Bernd Heber, Manuela Temmer, Astrid Veronig

16:50:00

17:10:00

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETER KEO SCIENTIFIC ARINAE FOR AIRGLOW OBSERVATION IN THE EASTERN SIBERIA: FIRST RESULTS

Roman Vasilyev, Alexandr Mikhalev, Irina Medvedeva, Geliy Zherebtsov, Alexander Beletsky, Tatyana Syrenova

 

Session 5

Sun to Earth campaign event study

 

17:10:00

17:30:00

Realistic Ionosphere 3D Nowcast by HF Sounding from Top and Bottom I. A. Galkin and B. W. Reinisch

17:30:00

16:00:00

CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING EARTH-AFFECTING CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS

Nariaki Nitta, Tamitha Mulligan, Dave Webb (invited)

 

Thursday, July 13

 

Session 5

Sun to Earth campaign event study (continuation)

Chair: Shunrong Zhang

 

9:00:00

09:30:00

MULTI-INSTRUMENT ANALYSIS OF SOLAR ERUPTIVE EVENTS OBSERVED BY THE SIBERIAN RADIOHELIOGRAPH AND COMPARISON TRADITIONAL HYPOTHESES: DEVELOPMENT OF A SHOCK WAVE AND CME

Victor Grechnev, Sergey Lesovoi, Alexander Altyntsev, Alexey Kochanov, Arkadiy Uralov, Alexey Gubin, Dmitry Zhdanov, Eugene Ivanov, Larisa Kashapova (invited)

9:30:00

09:50:00

SUN-TO-EARTH PROPAGATION OF THE 2015 JUNE 21 CORONAL MASS EJECTION REVEALED BY OPTICAL, EUV, AND RADIO OBSERVATIONS

Nat Gopalswamy, Pertti A Makela, Sachiko Akiyama, Seiji Yashiro

9:50:00

10:10:00

THE 2015 JUNE 22-23 STORM EFFECTS: FROM THE SUN TO THE EARTH V.

Yasyukevich, Vladimir Kalegaev, Ilya Zhivetiev, Natalya Kovyazina, Natalia Vlasova

10:10:00

10:30:00

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF IGW-WIND INTERACTION USING THE COMBINED IRKUTSK INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR AND IONOSONDE DATA

Andrey Medvedev, Konstantin Ratovsky, Maxim TOLSTIKOV, Sergey Alsatkin

10:30:00

10:50:00

MAGNETOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE RESPONSE TO THE INTERPLANETARY SHOCK ON 24 JANUARY 2012

Vladimir  Belakhovsky, Vjacheslav Pilipenko, Lisa Beddeley, Yaroslav  Sakharov, Sergey  Samsonov

10:50:00

11:20:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 5

Sun to Earth campaign event study (continuation)

Chair: Jan Lastovicka

 

11:20:00

11:50:00

IONOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONAL CAMPAIGN STUDY OF GEOSPACE STORMS: A SCENAIO FOR STRONG IONOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE COUPLING DURING THE 2015 ST PATRICK’S DAY STORM

Shunrong Zhang (invited)

11:50:00

12:10:00

UNUSUAL EVOLUTION OF PLASMA BUBBLES INTO NON-CONJUGATE FEATURES DURING 17 MARCH 2015 STORM

Lakshmi Narayanan Viswanathan, Sukanta Sau, Subramanian Gurubaran, Rupesh Ghodpage, P. Patil

 

Session 6

Atmospheric response to solar variability and modulation of its impact on timescales from minutes to decades

 

12:10:00

12:30:00

LONG-TERM VARIABILITY AND TREND OF THE MESOSPHERE BASED ON PHASE-HEIGHT MEASUREMENTS OVER EUROPE

Dieter H.W. Peters, Günter Entzian, Dieter Keuer, Jorge L. Chau

12:30:00

14:00:00

LUNCH

 

Session 6

Atmospheric response to solar variability and modulation of its impact on timescales from minutes to decades (continuation)

Chair: William Ward

 

14:00:00

14:30:00

PROGRESS IN LONG-TERM TRENDS IN THE MLT REGION

Jan Lastovicka, ROSMIC WG3 team (invited)

14:30:00

14:50:00

SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC CONTROL  OF IONOSPHERIC WINTER ANOMALY AND SUMMER EVENING ANOMALY IN NMF2 AND TEC

Maxim  Klimenko, Konstantin Ratovsky, Vladimir Klimenko, Yury Yasyukevich, Anna Yasyukevich, Nikolay Chirik, Alexander Markov, Alisher Abdullaev, Nina Korenkova

14:50:00

15:10:00

THERMOSPHERIC RESPONSE TO SOLAR VARIABILITY FROM MORE THAN 15 YEARS OF SABER DATA

Linda Allen Hunt, Martin G Mlynczak, Bruce T Tsurutani, Jesper W. Gjerloev, James Russell

15:10:00

15:40:00

SOLAR EFFECTS ON THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE  FROM SOLAR FLARE TO SOLAR CYCLE TIME SCALES

Liying Qian (invited)

15:40:00

16:00:00

THE ENERGY BUDGET OF THE MESOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE – RESULTS FROM 15 YEARS OF SABER, SORCE, AND SEE OBSERVATIONS

Martin Mlynczak, Linda Hunt, B. Thomas Marshall, James Russell III

16:00:00

16:30:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 6

Atmospheric response to solar variability and modulation of its impact on timescales from minutes to decades (continuation)

Chair: Takuji Nakamura

 

16:30:00

16:50:00

ATMOSPHERIC IMPACTS OF THE STRONGEST KNOWN SOLAR STORM OF 775 AD

Timofei Sukhodolov

16:50:00

17:20:00

LONG-TERM TRENDS IN THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE OBSERVED USING GROUND BASED AND COMBINED SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS

M. Venkat Ratnam (invited)

17:20:00

17:40:00

THE IONOSPHERIC DYNAMICS AS MEASURED BY THE DOPPLER SOUNDING AND BY THE DIGISONDE TECHNIQUE

Daniel Kouba, Jaroslav Chum

17:40:00

18:00:00

OBSERVATIONS OF DYNAMICS IN THE HIGH ARCTIC MESOPAUSE REGION AND THERMOSPHERE

William Ward, Marianna Shepherd, Qian Wu, Wayne Hocking, Alan Manson, Chris Meek, Sam Kristoffersen, Chris Vail

 

 

Friday, July 14

 

Session 7

Data archiving and analysis tools

Chair: Robert Redmon

 

14:00:00

14:30:00

SUNSPOT NUMBER: THE ONGOING MODERNIZATION OF A LONG-TERM REFERENCE            Frédéric Clette, Laure Lefèvre (invited)

14:30:00

14:50:00

DATABASE OF COSMIC-RAY NEUTRON FLUXES HELD BY WDC FOR COSMIC RAYS

Takashi Watanabe

14:50:00

15:20:00

PROGRESS IN HANDLING AND ANALYSIS OF GROUND-BASED GEOMAGNETIC DATA STREAMS FOR ADVANCED MONITORING OF THE EARTH’S MAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT

Anatoly Soloviev (invited)

15:20:00

15:50:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session 7

Data archiving and analysis tools (continuation)

Chair: Takashi Watanabe

 

15:50:00

16:20:00

NCEI SUN TO EARTH: SPACE ENVIRONMENT ARCHIVE, TECHNIQUES, TOOLS AND RESULTS

Robert Redmon (invited)

16:20:00

16:50:00

IUGONET TOOLS FOR SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RESEARCH

Yoshimasa Tanaka (invited)

16:50:00

17:10:00

RESULTS FROM FY-3 SOLAR IRRADIANCE MONITOR OBSERVATION, A NEW TSI DATA RECORD

Jin Qi

17:10:00

17:30:00

CLOSING CEREMONY

19:00:00

CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday, July 15

09:00:00

18:00:00

BOAT TRIP ON LAKE BAIKAL