First PITHIA-NRF Training School
The First Training School of the Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services: a Network of Research Facilities (PITHIA-NRF) project was held in Rome, INGV headquarters, from 29 May to 1 June 2023. The school offered:
- lectures on the physical mechanisms acting in the Earth’s Ionosphere, Thermosphere and Plasmasphere as parts of the coupled Sun-Earth system;
- courses on the main scientific models registered in PITHIA-NRF e-science centre;
- hands-on session on the use of the PITHIA-NRF e-science centre for data mining and to learn its tools for integrating data sets and models.
The school addressed research scientists and engineers at all levels. The participation of PhD students and early career scientists were specifically encouraged.
Programme
The Programme is available below and here in pdf (downloadable) format.
| Time (CEST) | Monday, 29 May | Tuesday, 30 May | Wednesday, 31 May | Thursday, 1 June |
| 09:00 | Walk-in | Walk-in | Walk-in | |
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The Earth's plasmasphere formation and dynamics Viviane Pierrard |
The empirical Drag Temperature Model 2020 (DTM2020) of the thermosphere Sean Bruinsma |
Working Groups Activities | ||
| 10:00 | ||||
| Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 |
Sean Bruinsma |
Ionospheric Prediction Models in PITHIA-NRF Anna Belehaki |
Working Groups Activities | |
| 12:00 |
Coupling with the lower atmosphere Jaroslav Chum |
Ionospheric Scintillations Climatological Model with Ground-Based GNSS receivers Luca Spogli |
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| 13:00 | Walk-in registration | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 13:50 | School opening |
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| 14:00 |
Fundamentals of Ionospheric Plasma Dynamics (I) Iurii Cherniak |
Anna Belehaki |
Modeling HF Communications with RayTRIX and IRTAM Ivan Galkin |
Presentations by students |
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Introduction on the e-Science Centre Tamas Kiss |
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| 14:40 |
TNA Programme Maria Mihalikova |
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| 15:00 | Coffee break |
Introduction on Working Groups Ivan Galkin |
Discussion about e-Science Centre Tamas Kiss |
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Fundamentals of Ionospheric Plasma Dynamics (II) Iurii Cherniak |
Coffee break | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 |
From Sun to Earth with EUHFORIA Tinatin Baratashvili |
Setting of Working Groups Lucilla Alfonsi |
Wrap-up and school closing | |
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Ionosphere - Magnetosphere coupling Eija Tanskanen |
Working Groups Activities | |||
| 17:00 |
The 3D Dynamic Kinetic Model of the Plasmasphere Viviane Pierrard |
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| Welcome drink | ||||
| 18:00 | Social Dinner | |||
| 19:00 | ||||
| 20:00 | ||||
The lectures given during the School are available to the PITHIA-NRF YouTube Channel. You can access them here.
Selected pictures from the School activities are also available here.
Funds were available to support the travel of participants with an excellent CV accompanied by a motivation letter and a recommendation letter.
Key dates:
- Registration opening: 27 January 2023
- Application (including Funding request) closing: 15 March 2023
- Acceptance: 31 March 2023
- Final program: 30 April 2023
Venue: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
Practical information available here.
Program Committee: Anna Belehaki (chair), Ivan Galkin, Tamas Kiss, Lucilla Alfonsi, Mamoru Ishii, Hanna Rothkael
Evaluation Committee: Ingemar Haggstrom (chair), David Altadill, Claudio Cesaroni, Jurgen Watermann
Local Organizing Committee: Luca Spogli (chair), Claudio Cesaroni, Sara Mainella, Emanuele Pica, Vincenzo Romano, Loredana Proto (secretary)