SWIC4Forecasters

Name: SWIC4Forecasters
Start: 2023-10-09T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2023-10-11T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Royal Observatory of Belgium - Directors Building

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

Royal Observatory of Belgium - Directors Building

Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussel, Belgium

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

Description

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

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

Registration

Contact

swec@stce.be

Monday, 9 October
- 1
  
  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
  
  Break
- 2
  
  Overview - Interface 4 workflows - prepare for daily URSI
  
  Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
- 10:35
  
  Break
- 3
  
  Flares: previwebtab + analysis of event + prediction + terminology
  
  Speaker: Jan Janssens
- 11:40
  
  Break
- 4
  
  Proton flux: previwebtab + analysis of events + prediction of events + terminology
  
  Speaker: Jan Janssens
- 12:05
  
  Lunch
- 5
  
  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
  
  Break
- 6
  
  CME: part 2
  
  Speaker: Jasmina Magdalenic
- 15:15
  
  break
- 7
  
  Coronal Holes: previwebtab + analysis of event + prediction + terminology
  
  prediction of arrival - intensity (recurrence)
  
  Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)
- 15:40
  
  Break
- 8
  
  10.7 flux: previwebtab + what + prediction
  
  Speaker: Jan Janssens
- 9
  
  Wrap up
Tuesday, 10 October
- 09:00
  
  Morning coffee
- 10
  
  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
  
  15 min break
- 11
  
  Solar Wind - part 2
- 11:45
  
  5 min break
- 12
  
  Electrons at GEO
  
  Speaker: Jan Janssens
- 12:10
  
  Lunch
- 13
  
  Geomagnetism/Kp: previwebtab + what + prediction + terminology
  
  prediction linked to events, CH, CME, SBC
  
  Speaker: Luciano Rodriguez (ROB)
- 14:00
  
  15 min break
- 14
  
  Finish Daily URSI
  
  Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)
- 15
  
  Daily tasks: Alerts - conditions + terminology + how to send
  
  Presto - All quiet - Cactus correction - CME arrival
  
  Speaker: Elke D'Huys (STCE)
- 15:15
  
  5 min break
- 16
  
  Daily tasks: daily Helio - presto conditions + when
  
  Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
- 17
  
  Weekly tasks: briefing - summary
  
  briefing: template, Webex
  summary: previwebtab, when, terminology
  
  Speaker: Konstantina Loumou (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
- 18
  
  Reflection of the day
Wednesday, 11 October
- 09:00
  
  Morning Coffee
- 19
  
  PECASUS - technical part of operations: editor, dashboard
  
  Speaker: Yana Maneva (ROB)
- 10:15
  
  15 min break
- 20
  
  PECASUS GNSS - what, parameters, advisory procedures
  
  Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)
- 11:30
  
  15 min break
- 21
  
  PECASUS radiation: what, parameters, procedures
  
  Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)
- 12:15
  
  Lunch
- 22
  
  PECASUS radiation: part 2
  
  Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)
- 13:30
  
  15 min break
- 23
  
  PECASUS HF COM : what, parameters, procedures
  
  Speaker: Petra Vanlommel (STCE)
- 14:45
  
  15 min break
- 24
  
  PECASUS : briefing, handover
  
  Speaker: Yana Maneva (ROB)
- 15:30
  
  5 min break
- 25
  
  PECASUS - practicalities
  
  phones, mattermost
  
  Speaker: Jennifer O'Hara (ROB)
- 26
  
  Final END
  
  Speaker: Judith de Patoul