SWIC4Forecasters

Oct 9, 2023, 8:45 AM → Oct 11, 2023, 5:00 PM 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, October 9

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM 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 AM → 10:15 AM Break

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

Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

10:35 AM → 10:40 AM Break

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

Speaker: Jan Janssens

11:40 AM → 11:45 AM Break

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

Speaker: Jan Janssens

12:05 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM 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

2:00 PM → 2:15 PM Break

2:15 PM → 3:15 PM CME: part 2

Speaker: Jasmina Magdalenic

3:15 PM → 3:20 PM break

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM Coronal Holes: previwebtab + analysis of event + prediction + terminology

prediction of arrival - intensity (recurrence)

Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)

3:40 PM → 3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM → 4:05 PM 10.7 flux: previwebtab + what + prediction

Speaker: Jan Janssens

4:05 PM → 5:00 PM Wrap up

Tuesday, October 10

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Morning coffee

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM 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 AM → 10:45 AM 15 min break

10:45 AM → 11:45 AM Solar Wind - part 2

11:45 AM → 11:50 AM 5 min break

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Electrons at GEO

Speaker: Jan Janssens

12:10 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Geomagnetism/Kp: previwebtab + what + prediction + terminology

prediction linked to events, CH, CME, SBC

Speaker: Luciano Rodriguez (ROB)

2:00 PM → 2:15 PM 15 min break

2:15 PM → 2:20 PM Finish Daily URSI

Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)

2:20 PM → 3:15 PM Daily tasks: Alerts - conditions + terminology + how to send

Presto - All quiet - Cactus correction - CME arrival

Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)

3:15 PM → 3:20 PM 5 min break

3:20 PM → 3:30 PM Daily tasks: daily Helio - presto conditions + when

Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Weekly tasks: briefing - summary

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

Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Reflection of the day

Wednesday, October 11

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Morning Coffee

9:15 AM → 10:15 AM PECASUS - technical part of operations: editor, dashboard

Speaker: Yana Maneva (ROB)

10:15 AM → 10:30 AM 15 min break

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

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

11:30 AM → 11:45 AM 15 min break

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

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

12:15 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM → 1:30 PM PECASUS radiation: part 2

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

1:30 PM → 1:45 PM 15 min break

1:45 PM → 2:45 PM PECASUS HF COM : what, parameters, procedures

Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)

2:45 PM → 3:00 PM 15 min break

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM PECASUS : briefing, handover

Speaker: Yana Maneva (ROB)

3:30 PM → 3:35 PM 5 min break

3:35 PM → 4:35 PM PECASUS - practicalities

phones, mattermost

Speaker: Jennifer O'Hara (ROB)

4:35 PM → 5:00 PM Final END

Speaker: Judith de Patoul