SWIC4Forecasters

9 Oct 2023, 08:45 → 11 Oct 2023, 17:00 Europe/Brussels

Royal Observatory of Belgium - Directors Building

Elke D'Huys, Jan Janssens (STCE), Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

 

This course is open for STCE Space Weather Forecasters and PECASUS Operators only.

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This is an organisation of the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence

SEP_aurora.rtf

steradiaal.rtfd.zip

SWIC03_Listofabbreviations_FINAL.pdf

SWIC_Posters.pdf

SWIC_Sensors_Notes.pdf

SWIC_Sensors_Slides.pdf

UsefulLinks.pdf

Monday 9 October

09:00 → 10:00 Basic concepts of Space Weather - for people with less space weather background

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

202305_SWIC_intro2SWx.pdf

202305_SWIC_intro2SWx_withnotes.pdf

10:00 → 10:15 Break

10:15 → 10:35 Overview - Interface 4 workflows - prepare for daily URSI

Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

10:35 → 10:40 Break

10:40 → 11:40 Flares: previwebtab + analysis of event + prediction + terminology

Speaker: Jan Janssens

11:40 → 11:45 Break

11:45 → 12:05 Proton flux: previwebtab + analysis of events + prediction of events + terminology

Speaker: Jan Janssens

12:05 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 CME: previwebtab + analysis + prediction of arrival/intensity + terminology + CME scoreboard

analysis of event includes SRB
prediction of arrival includes heliospheric models
prediction of intensity at L1: v,Bz,rho
Other forecasts: CME scoreboard

Speaker: Jasmina Magdalenic

14:00 → 14:15 Break

14:15 → 15:15 CME: part 2

Speaker: Jasmina Magdalenic

15:15 → 15:20 break

15:20 → 15:40 Coronal Holes: previwebtab + analysis of event + prediction + terminology

prediction of arrival - intensity (recurrence)

Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)

15:40 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 16:05 10.7 flux: previwebtab + what + prediction

Speaker: Jan Janssens

16:05 → 17:00 Wrap up

Tuesday 10 October

09:00 → 09:30 Morning coffee

09:30 → 10:30 Solar Wind - in situ/L1: CME, CH, SBC

What are the panels in ACE/DSCVR graphs
Interpreting ACE and DSCVR data
electron and proton in L1 - what do they say?

Speaker: Luciano Rodriguez (ROB)

10:30 → 10:45 15 min break

10:45 → 11:45 Solar Wind - part 2

11:45 → 11:50 5 min break

11:50 → 12:10 Electrons at GEO

Speaker: Jan Janssens

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 Geomagnetism/Kp: previwebtab + what + prediction + terminology

prediction linked to events, CH, CME, SBC

Speaker: Luciano Rodriguez (ROB)

14:00 → 14:15 15 min break

14:15 → 14:20 Finish Daily URSI

Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)

14:20 → 15:15 Daily tasks: Alerts - conditions + terminology + how to send

Presto - All quiet - Cactus correction - CME arrival

Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)

15:15 → 15:20 5 min break

15:20 → 15:30 Daily tasks: daily Helio - presto conditions + when

Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

15:30 → 16:00 Weekly tasks: briefing - summary

briefing: template, Webex
summary: previwebtab, when, terminology

Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

16:00 → 17:00 Reflection of the day

Wednesday 11 October

09:00 → 09:15 Morning Coffee

09:15 → 10:15 PECASUS - technical part of operations: editor, dashboard

Speaker: Yana Maneva (ROB)

10:15 → 10:30 15 min break

10:30 → 11:30 PECASUS GNSS - what, parameters, advisory procedures

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

11:30 → 11:45 15 min break

11:45 → 12:15 PECASUS radiation: what, parameters, procedures

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

12:15 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:30 PECASUS radiation: part 2

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

13:30 → 13:45 15 min break

13:45 → 14:45 PECASUS HF COM : what, parameters, procedures

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

14:45 → 15:00 15 min break

15:00 → 15:30 PECASUS : briefing, handover

Speaker: Yana Maneva (ROB)

15:30 → 15:35 5 min break

15:35 → 16:35 PECASUS - practicalities

phones, mattermost

Speaker: Jennifer O'Hara (ROB)

16:35 → 17:00 Final END

Speaker: Judith de Patoul