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Electrojet Challenge
Geomagnetic Index Prediction Challenge
About Space Weather Week About Space Weather Week (Concluded April 23, 1999)
In an effort to accelerate and maximize the effective use of space environment research results in operations, the Space Environment Center will host a joint conference of users, researchers, and vendors the week of April 19, 1999. The 4th SEC User Conference will be held April 19, 20, and 21. The 3th annual Research-to-Operations Workshop, co-organized by Air Force Research Laboratory and NSF Division of Atmospheric Science, will be April 21, 22 and 23. The proximity of the two meetings, one emphasizing the operational concerns of users and one emphasizing research findings and new models, will foster communication among the researchers, the providers, and the users of space weather services. There will be time for attendees from both meetings to meet and converse informally.

Additionally, there will be a space weather services vendor meeting on April 21. This meeting will allow private sector enterprises access to both researchers (who might generate new products) and users (who might purchase new products). Vendors may therefore want to attend the Conference or the Workshop, or both.

Questions can be directed to Barbara Poppe (bpoppe@sec.noaa.gov) or to Terry Onsager (tonsager@sec.noaa.gov)

Next year's meeting is scheduled for May 1-5, 2000. Plan to be there!

Schedule

Monday, April 19

9 a.m. - noon     Tutorial: An Overview of the Space Environment
11:00 - 1:00        Registration, Lunch on your own
1:00                    User Conference Begins
1:00 - 1:45         "Welcome to Space Weather Week "- Ernie Hildner

1:45 - 2:15        " Solar Cycle 23 - Predication and Progress "- JoAnn Joselyn
2:15 - 3:00         "The Response to User Requests" - Joe Hirman
3:00 - 3:15         Break
3:15 - 4:30         "On the Horizon" - Dave Speich, Ron Zwickl, Rod Viereck, Howard Singer
4:30 - 5:30         Working session on Data-Dissemination, Availability, and Quality
4:30 - 5:30         Poster set-up

Tuesday, April 20

 Poster and Demo. Hall open all day

8:30 - 9:00         Coffee
9:00 - 9:30         "Air Force Use of Space Weather" - Rick Davila
9:30 - 9:45         Introduction to Working groups
9:45 - 10:00       Break
10.00 - 12:15     Working groups -User presentations
12:15 - 1:30       Catered Lunch
1:30 - 2:00         "The value of SEC Products" - Kent Doggett
2:00 - 2:15         Break
2:15 - 4:30         Working groups
4:30 - 5:30         View Posters
6:00 - 8:00         Reception for all
                            Guest speaker - Dr. David J. Evans, Asst. Administrator of NOAA

Wednesday, April 21

 Research Posters added to User Conference Poster and Demo. Hall, open all day

8:30 - 9:00           Coffee
9:00 - 9:30           "Application of Space Weather Models" - Terry Onsager
9:30 - 9:45          "Space Weather Vendors" - Barbara Poppe
9:45 - 10:00         Break
10:00 - 10:45       "Reports from the Worksessions" - Facilitators
10:45 - 11:30       "Wrap-up of the Worksessions" - Gary Heckman
11:30 - 1:00         Lunch on your own
1:00 - 1:20          Welcome to the Research-to-Operations Workshop - Terry Onsager
                             Research Advances and Outstanding Issues
1:20 - 2:40           Ionosphere
                             Priorities for Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Predictions - Rick Davila
                             Modeling  Storm-time Changes in TEC and Nmf2 - Tim Fuller- Rowll
                             Ionospheric Specification and Forecasting Using Real-Time GPS Measurements - Brian Wilson
                             Specification and Forecasting of Scintillation: Research-to-Operations - Santi Basu and Keith Groves
2:40 - 3:00           Break
3:00 - 4:20           Magnetosphere
                             Global MHD Simulations for Space Weather Predictions - Michael Wiltberger
                             Real-Time Ionospheric Electrodynamics Specification - Aaron Ridley
                             Specifying Outer Belt Electrons by Data Assimilation - Dan Moorer
                             A Radiation Belt Model and a Model for the Specification of Solar Energetic Particle Cutoffs and Spectra - John Freeman 4:20 - 5:00          Spacecraft Anomaly Assessment and International Space Station Priorities
                            Application of Space Weather Data to (Two) Recent Anomaly Investigations - Michael Bodeau
                            Space Radiation and Analysis Group's Top Ten List for Space Station Support - Michael Golightly
5:00 - 6:00          Splinter Meeting:  Electrojet Prediction Challenge - Working group session to compare
                            techniques for predicting the auroral electrojet strengths and locations
6:00-9:00            Vendor Meeting

Thursday, April 22

 Posters open all day

8:00 - 8:30           Coffee and Additional Poster Viewing
8:30 - 11:30         Research Advances and Outstanding Issues II
                             Solar and Interplanetary
                             Priorities for Solar and Inteplanetary Predictions - JoAnn Joselyn
                             Solar Energetic Particles at 1 AU - Joan Feynman
                             Prediction of Background Solar Wind and Geoeffectiveness of Magnetic Clouds - Nick Arge
                             Use of Coronal Magnetic Field Models to Predict CMEs - Janet Luhmann
                             Propagation of Transients Through the Background Solar Wind - Vic Pizzo
10:10 - 10:30       Break
10:30 - 11:30       Model Validation
                             Magnetospheric Specification Model - Bob Hilmer
                             Ionospheric Model Validation - Bill Borer or Dwight Decker
                             Rapid Prototyping Center Verification Strategy - Kent Doggett
11:30 - 2:00         Poster session and catered lunch
2:00 - 3:40           International Space Weather Agency Activities
                             Results of the USAF Space Architect Study - Lt. Col. Rick Strathearn
                             U.S. National Space Weather Program Implementation Plan Update - Rich Behnke
                             European Space Agency Space Weather Activities - Eamonn Daly
                             Japanese Space Weather Activities - Eiichi Sagawa
                             Establishing Metrics for Space Weather - Tim Fuller-Rowell
3:40 - 4:00           Break
4:00 - 5:00           Community Modeling Center and Rapid Prototyping Center Activities
                             Community Coordinated Modeling Center and Rapid Protoyping Center Update - Kevin Scro
                             USAF Web Page and Text-to-Graphics Efforts - Maj. Peter Citrone
                             SEC Rapid Prototyping Center Activities - Terry Onsager
5:00 - 6:00          Additional Poster Viewing
5:00 - 6:00           Splinter Meeting:  Geomagnetic Index Prediction Challenge - Working
                             group session to compare techniques for predicting geomagnetic indices

Friday, April 23

8:00 - 8:30           Coffee and Additional Poster Viewing
8:30 - 9:30           New Data Sources and Data Assimilation
                             Solar Electrical Optical Network (SEON) Upgrade - John Tomaszewski
                             SOLIS - A Modern Facility for Synoptic Solar Observations - Christoph Keller
                             The Geostorms Mission - Pat Mulligan and John West
9:30 - 9:50 Break
9:50 - 11:10         Reporting Space Weather with the IMAGE Mission - Dennis Gallagher
                             Observation of Field-Aligned Currents Using the Iridium Satellites - Brian Anderson
                             Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements: MURI GAIM Plan - Bob Schunk
                             SCOSTEP, S-RAMP, and Space Weather - Hannu Koskinen
11:10 - 12:00       Discussion and Closing Remarks