STCE Annual Meeting

Thursday 27 Jun 2024, 09:30 → 14:40 Europe/Brussels

Director's house, room Stratus (Royal Meteorological Institute)

It is the season of the STCE annual meeting. Time to present the highlights of the past year.

Recently,  we redefined the key domains and topics covering the activities funded by the STCE. We are still refining it. It is a continuous process that keeps the STCE dynamic.

The domains are: Instrumentation & observations, research, operations, community engagement, management. Each domain includes several topics. Which? Check the link in the left menu.

The STCE looks always for collaborations amongst ourselves and stakeholders. The recent Mother's Day Storm offers a wonderful opportunity to show how the different groups in the different domains complement each other.

The (draft) timetable is available in the left menu. 

Practicalities

To register, click on 'Register' in the left menu. 

Deadline for registration: Wednesday June 19, included.

When - Where

Thursday June 27, 10:00-13:00 in room Stratus, in the former Director's house of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI) - orange in the picture below. The doors open at 9:30. 

Lunch is served around 13:00 in room 1+2 in the Director's house of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) - green in the picture below. 

 

 

09:30 → 10:00 Arrival with coffee and tea

10:00 → 10:10 Welcome to the attendees and special guests from Belgian defence.

We welcome Dries Van Baelen, radio engineer and Emilien Juckler from MeteoWing, both at Belgian defence.

Speaker: Ronald Van der Linden

10:10 → 10:20 Assessing long-term changes in stratospheric water vapour observed from space

Changes in water vapour have an impact on surface climate, but are not well constrained due to differences between observations. In this study we quantify and compare variability and long-term changes in three merged satellite Climate Data Records of vertically resolved water vapour in the stratosphere.

Speaker: Daan Hubert (BIRA-IASB)

10:20 → 10:30 ICME impact on plasma turbulence and complexity at Venus, Earth and Mars.

We investigate the effects of ICME on the properties of turbulence and intermittency detected in the magnetosheath of Venus and Mars and compare with properties detected in the Earth’s magnetosheath when impacted by the same interplanetary event. We select two Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) events, one in January 2009 which hit Venus and Earth and the second one in 2018 which hit Earth and Mars. We use magnetic field and plasma data provided by Venus Express, Cluster and MAVEN on which we apply a full set of analysis methods including computation of Power Spectral Density (PSD), Probability Density Functions (PDFs) and the flatness. We compare the spectral index and the intermittent range of scales (where we observe scale dependent/increasing flatness) obtained for the non-magnetized planets with the same turbulence descriptors obtained for the Earth. We also compare planetary magnetosheath turbulence and intermittency properties observed during space weather events with quiet times results, for each planetary system.

Speaker: Marius Echim (IASB)

10:30 → 11:30 Mother's Day Storm - part 1

Sabrina, David, Marie, Christophe, Antonio - Solar Observations
Viviane, Tobias, Hervé, Dani - Near Earth Observations
Erwin, Nicolas, Jean-Marie, Yana - Sources of Space Weather Impacts
Dries - Impacts in HF operations seen by users

11:30 → 11:45 Break

11:45 → 12:45 Mother's Day Storm, part 2

Sabrina, David, Marie, Christophe, Antonio - Solar Observations
Viviane, Tobias, Hervé, Dani - Near Earth Observations
Erwin, Nicolas, Jean-Marie, Yana - Sources of Space Weather Impacts
Dries - Impacts in HF operations seen by users

12:45 → 13:00 STCE structure & future

Speaker: Ronald Van der Linden

13:00 → 13:05 Announcement STCE 20 years

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch: veggie sandwiches + lactose-free salad

Vegetarian lunch: sandwiches and (lactose-free) salad