I*Y and Space Weather

Richard StamperCCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

Co-Chair, IHY Campaign Coordination

Third European Space Weather Week, Brussels, 13-17 November 2006

Thanks to the IHY and ICESTAR teams for material, particularly

• Carine Briand• Kirsti Kauristie• Nat Gopalswamy

Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958

… and start of the Space Age

International Polar Year (IPY)Studies of, and from, the Polar regions

2007-2009

International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE)“The largest database of information about the past and present status of planet Earth that has ever existed” (2008, Focused on Earth Sciences)

Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY)“21st Century e-Science approach to issues of data stewardship…

The development of Virtual Observatories and Laboratories … “(2007-2008, Covered in the next talk)

International Heliophysical Year (IHY)Physics of the heliosphere2007-2009

I*Y : Benefits for Space Weather

• Better visibility– Of on-going and planned research and programs

• Better science– Impetus to improve understanding of science behind space weather

impacts– Encouraging holistic and systems thinking

• Better data– Spur to more and improved instrumentation– Improved access (eGY)

• Better awareness– Excellent opportunity for public outreach

Despite IHY and IPY • Being focused on Space Science rather than Space Weather• Having little direct funding of their own

They are providing, or will provide:

Science, Observatory Development, Outreach, History

ihy2007.org

THEME 1Evolution and Generation of Magnetic Structures and Transients

Theme 2Energy Transfer and Coupling

Processes

Theme 3Flows and Circulations

Theme 4Boundaries and Interfaces

Theme 5Synoptic Studies of the 3-D Coupled Solar-Planetary-Heliospheric System

IHY Science Themes

IHY: Science CoordinationCoordinated Investigation

Programmes– Mechanism for proposing, or

advertising, work benefiting from or requiring collaboration and coordination

– “Bottom-up” approach, anyone can propose

– On-line form and database– 50 currently proposed

Grouped into 7 disciplines : Solar; Heliosphere/Cosmic Rays; Magnetospheres; Ionized Atmospheres; Neutral Atmospheres; Climate; Astrobiology/Space Medicine

Discipline Coordinators recruited for the disiciplines:To help make connections between related proposalsAssist proposers in gaining access to resources (observing time, data, funding)

Endorsed by SCAR’s Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences

July 28, 2004

Five-year international scientific research programme for coordinated bi-polar research in the fields of STP and polar aeronomy

ICESTARInterhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research

ContactsKirsti Kauristie (FMI, Finland)

Allan Weatherwax (Siena College, USA)

International Polar YearSix Broad Themes

Status of environment Change, past and futureGlobal Linkages New Frontiers in scienceVantage point Human Issues

Science program “Expressions of Interest”

>1000, grouped into ~50 clusters, covering all areas of polar science

IHY and ICESTAR asked to lead one cluster

Full Proposal #63Heliosphere Impact on Geospace

Umbrella proposal incorporating 29 EoIsInvolvement of 22 nations including Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden, UK, Ukraine.

Led by Kirsti Kauristie (FMI, for ICESTAR), Richard Harrison (RAL, for IHY)

www.ipy.org

I*Y : Visibility of work

Some overlap and increased scope for collaboration• IHY Discipline Coordinators working to build connections • Clusters of CIPs, IPY EoIs and ICESTAR projects identified

(Thanks to Kirsti Kauristie for leading this to date)• Three are closely related to Space Weather

– Antarctic Space Weather– Plasmaspheric Dynamics– Radio wave propagation in the ionosphere - observations and models

• More information on these will follow as they develop

IHY CIPs –http://ihy2007.org.uk/CIPs.shtm–Links through to individual CIP web sites where available

IPY projects in ICESTAR/IHY–http://www.ava.fmi.fi/ipyid63/ipyid63_projects.html–Links to IPY EoI and Full Proposal information

I*Y : Advances in Science

CME onset and propagation

CIP 1 – Development of Algorithms for CME Onset and Earth-Arrival Predictions

• Coronal dimming

• STEREO HI for propagation

Thinking GloballyCIP 2 – Real-time Global Ionosphere

CIP 4 – Global Plasmaspheric Dynamics

CIP 43 – SMEI and IPS 3D heliospheric analysis comparison with Ulysses and other NASA Spacecraft

IPY EoI 14 – Greenland IPY 2007 Space Science Symposium“Transport in the Coupled Solar Wind – Geospace System seen from a High-Latitude Vantage Point”

CASS/UCSD animation of tomographic reeconstruction of SW density following a CME launched 26 July 2002 using Stelab IPS data (bvjackson@ucsd.edu)

I*Y : New InstrumentationUN Basic Space Science Initiative

(UNBSSI)• Program of the UN Office for Outer

Space Affairs (UNOOSA)• Focus for 2005-2009 is IHYGoal : deploy global arrays of small,

inexpensive instrumentsModel : partnership between

instrument providers and hostsMethod : UN/ESA/NASA workshops • 2005 : 20-23/1, El Ain, UAE• 2006 : 27/11 – 1/12, Bangalore, India• 2007 : Japan

ContactsNat Gopalswamy (GSFC)Hans Haubold (UNOOSA)

UNBSSI Example : CALLISTO

Science

• 24 hour coverage of solar activity

• Detect electron beams and CME-driven shocks

• Existing in Switzerland, US

• Being deployed in India, Mexico, Costa Rica

• Network with Hiraiso?

Technical Dual-channel frequency-agile receiver• Based on commercially available

consumer electronics• Low cost for hardware and software• Short assembly time

Compound Astronomical Low-cost Low-frequency Instrument for Spectroscopy and Transportable Observatory

PI: A.Benz, ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland

I*Y : Outreach

Outreach a major component of both IHY and IPY

– Activities planned globally and nationally

– E.g. European IHY “Open Doors day http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/IHY/

Take advantage of the opportunity

50th birthday of the Space Age

In 1957 • Exploring the edge of our atmosphereIn 2007• Exploring the edge of our heliosphere

Space Weather is a natural new frontierSputnik-1 Explorer-1