• Presentations from the 2009 ILWS Workshop
    "Influence of Solar Variability on Geophysical and Heliospheric Phenomena"
    October 4 - 9, 2009 Ubatuba, Brazil





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OPENING SESSION

Monday, October 5: Opening Session (chairperson: A. L. C. Gonzalez)

         

8:30

Lika Guhathakurta NASA Headquarters

 

8:40

Gilberto Camara INPE´s Director

 

8:50

Walter D. Gonzalez Convener/Organizing Committee

 

ORAL SESSIONS

 

Monday, October 5: Solar General Session I (chairperson: R. Schwenn)

 

9:00

Marsch, E.

MPS, Germany

Science objectives of Solar Orbiter (Invited)

 

9:30

Hudson, H.

UC Berkeley, USA

Solar Flares with and without Large-Scale Processes (Invited)

 

10:00

Stenborg, G.

Interferometrics Inc.

A grand tour of the first two and a half years of STEREO/SECCHI Observations (Invited)

 

10:30

Coffee Break

 

Solar General Session II (chairperson: A. Dal Lago)

 

11:00

Kaufmann, P.

CRAAM, Brazil

Solar observations at submillimeter and mid-infrared wavelengths (Invited)

 

11:30

Balmaceda, L.

UV, Spain

Radiative and magnetic properties of small magnetic elements

 

11:45

Dal Lago, A.

INPE, Brazil

Study of a coronal mass ejection using STEREO/SECCHI and SOHO/LASCO observations

 

12:00

Dasso, S.

IAFE, Argentina

Evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections for different solar wind conditions

 

12:15

De Lucas, A.

INPE, Brazil

Extension of Magnetic Clouds in the Inner Heliosphere as observed from Multi-Spacecraft

 

12:30

Lunch

 

Solar General Session II (continuation)

 

14:00

Jackson, B. V.

UC San Diego, USA

The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) 3D-reconstruction of density " width="583">The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) 3D-reconstruction of density enhancements behind interplanetary shocks

 

14:15

Rosa, R.

INPE, Brazil

Spectral Analysis of Decimetric Solar Bursts Variability

 

14:30

Trigoso, H.

IGP, Perú

The Solar Spectrograph at Ica Solar Station

 

Monday, October 5: Genesis and Propagation of Interplanetary Structures throughout the Heliosphere (chairperson: V. Alves)

 

14:45

Jokipii, J.

U Arizona, USA

Understanding Collisionless Shocks in the Heliosphere (Invited)

 

15:15

Opher, M.

George Mason Univ.

Comparative Shock Studies: From the Lower Corona to the Termination Shock (Invited)

 

15:45

Coffee Break

 

Genesis and Propagation of Interplanetary Structures throughout the Heliosphere (chairperson: M. Opher)

 

16:15

Richardson, J.

MIT, USA

Shocks in the Heliosphere (Invited)

 

16:45

Tsurutani, B.

JPL, USA

Magnetic decrease formation in interplanetary space and mirror mode formation in planetary magnetosheaths and the heliosheath

 

17:00

Bisi, M.

UCSD, USA

Coronal Mass Ejections and Large-Scale Solar Wind Structure in the Declining and Minimum Phase between Solar Cycles 23 and 24

 

17:15

Lui, A.

JHUAPL, USA

Grad-Shanfranov Reconstruction of Coronal Mass Ejection

 

 

Tusday, October 6: Magnetosphere General Session I (chairperson: A. L. C. Gonzalez)

 

09:00

Vasyliunas, V.

MPI, Germany

The physics of magnetospheric variability (Invited)

 

09:30

Fok, M-C

GSFC, USA

Recent Developments in the Radiation Belt Environment Model (Invited)

 

10:00

Laakso, H.

SER-OS, ESA

Usage of Cluster data in the ILWS studies (Invited)

 

10:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Magnetosphere General Session II (chairperson: Mendes, O. Jr.)

 

11:00

Sibeck, D.

GSFC, NASA

The THEMIS Mission (Invited)

 

11:30

Pu, Z.

Peking Univ., China

Magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause: New results from Double Star-Cluster coordinated observations

 

11:45

Korotova, G.

Izmiran, Rusia

Themis Observations of Compressional Pulsations in the Dawn-Side Magnetosphere

 

12:00

Nieves-Chinchilla, T.

NASA, USA

Propagation and evolution of the June 1st 2008 CME in the interplanetary medium

 

12:15

Kane, R.

INPE, Brazil

Similarities and Dissimilarities between the Variations of CME and Other Solar Parameters at Different Heliographic Latitudes and Time Scales

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

Magnetosphere General Session II (continuation)

 

14:00

Korth, A.

MPI, Germany

Response of the Polar Cusp and the Magnetotail to CIRs Studied by a Multispacecraft Wavelet Analysis

 

14:15

Stepanova, M.

Univ. Santiago, Chile

Modelling of the turbulent plasma sheet during quiet and disturbed geomagnetic conditions

 

October 6: Ionosphere-Upper Atmosphere General Session I (chairperson: J. Kozyra)

 

14:30

Abdu, M.

INPE, Brazil

Disturbance Electric Fields effects on the Equatorial Evening Prereversal Vertical Drift and Spread F Developments (Invited)

 

15:00

Kikuchi, T.

STELAB, Japan

Effects of the interplanetary processes on the electrodynamics of the inner magnetosphere-ionosphere system (Invited)

 

15:30

Coffee Break

 

Ionosphere-Upper Atmosphere General Session II (chairperson: J. H. Sobral)

 

16:00

Kudeki,

U Ill., USA

Modeling the incoherent scatter radar spectrum for modes propagating perpendicular to B (Invited)

 

16:30

São Sabbas, F.

INPE, Brazil

The Importance of Upper Atmospheric Effects of Thunderstorms and Lightning to the Earth's Energy Budget and its Current Research Status in South America

 

16:45

Schuch, N. J.

INPE, Brazil

The Influence of the Solar Variability on Space Geophysics Phenomena in Southern of Brazil and South America

 

17:00

Sobral, J.

INPE, Brazil

Zonal velocities of the ionospheric F-region plasma during the nocturnal period: Effects of the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly

 

17:15

Guarnieri, F.

UNIVAP, Brazil

Ionospheric Disturbances Induced by Interplanetary Alfvén Waves Observed by GPS Data

 

Wednesday, October 7: Space Weather I (chairperson: T. Onsager)

 

09:00

Boteler, D.

NRC, Canada

The Growing Need for Space Weather Information (Invited)

 

09:30

Fuller-Rowell, T.

NOAA, USA

Upper Atmosphere Space Weather – What drives it? (Invited)

 

10:00

Maruyama, T.

NIICT, Japan

Ionospheric studies using a meridional ionosonde network at low-latitudes (Invited)

 

10:30

Coffee Break

 

Space Weather II (chairperson: H. Takahashi)

 

11:00

Glover, A.

Rhea Sist., ESA

Recent Activities of the ILWS End User Task Group

 

11:15

Noel, J. M.

RMC, Canada

The effects of ionospheric electrodynamics on low-earth-orbiting satellites

 

11:30

Alves, M. V.

INPE/PLASMA

Probability distribution functions for the geoffectiveness of solar wind interplanetary magnetic structures

 

11:45

Sawant, H. S.

INPE, Brazil

The Brazilian Decimetric Array (BDA) Contribution To Space Weather Investigations

 

12:00

Takahashi, H.

INPE, Brazil

Brazilian Space Weather Program

 

12:15

Cecatto, J. R.

INPE, Brazil

Renewed Brazilian Solar Spectroscope (BSS) And Space Weather

 

12:30

Lunch

 

Thursday, October 8: Extreme Magnetic Storms (chairperson: E. Echer)

 

09:00

Tsurutani, B.

JPL, USA

Extreme Magnetic Storms: Solar and Interplanetary Causes and Consequences at Earth (Invited)

 

09:30

Gonzalez, W.

INPE, Brazil

Interplanetary and Magnetospheric Processes during Extreme Geomagnetic Storms (Invited)

 

10:00

Kozyra, J.

Univ. Mch., USA

Extreme Space Weather in Geospace: New Results from a System Perspective (Invited)

 

10:30

Coffee Break

 

11:00

Echer, E.

INPE, Brazil

Statistical studies of superstorms (Dst ≤ -250 nT)

 

11:15

Cid, C

UAH, Espanha

Solar sources related to the largest Dst variations of solar cycle 23

 

11:30

Antonova, E.

Moscow Univ. Russia

Transverse magnetospheric currents and great geomagnetic storms

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

Thursday, October 8: Low Latitude Electrodynamics (chairperson: M. Abdu)

 

14:00

Fejer, B.

USU, USA

Low Latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics (Invited)

 

14:30

Bhattacharyya, A.

IIG, India

Solar influence on the evolution of intermediate scale length ESF irregularities (Invited)

 

15:00

Chau, J.

IGP, Perú

The Equatorial Ionosphere during Sudden Stratospheric Warming events (Invited)

 

15:30

Batista, I

INPE, Brazil

Unusual early morning development of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly during intense magnetic storms

 

15:45

Muralikrishna, P.

INPE, Brazil

The Effects of Meteoric Dust on the Equatorial E-Region Dynamics and Electrodynamics

 

16:00

Coffee Break

 

 

Thursday, October 8: Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Influence on Earth's Climate Session (chairperson: W. D. Gonzalez)

 

16:30

Nathan, T.

UC Davis, USA

Solar Variability and Climate: From Mechanisms to Models (Invited)

 

17:00

Garcia, R.

NCAR, USA

The Response of the Atmosphere to Solar Variability: What role does the QBO play? (Invited)

 

17:30

Pesnell, W. D.

GSFC, NASA

What Is Solar Minimum and Why Should We Care? (Invited)

 

Friday, October 9: Current and Future Worldwide Missions Relevant to ILWS (chairperson: J. Spann)

 

8:30

Jim Spann

MSFC, NASA

Introduction

 

8:35

Lika Guhathakurta

SMD, NASA

NASA policy towards international partnerships (Invited)

 

8:45

Jim Spann

MSFC, NASA

Future System Science Targets for Heliphysics at NASA (Invited)

 

9:10

Eric Donovan

NRC, Canada

Future Global GeoSpace Imaging in the Context of ILWS (Invited)

 

9:35

Philippe Escoubet

ESTEC, ESA

ESA current and future Solar System Missions (Invited)

 

10:00

Coffee Break

 

10:20

Ian Mann

UA, Canada

The Outer Radiation Belt Injection, Transport, Acceleration and Loss Satellite (ORBITALS): A Canadian Mission to the Inner Magnetosphere (Invited)

 

10:45

Polinaya Muralikrishna

INPE, Brazil

Lattes - Brazilian Dual Mission Scientific Satellite (Invited)

 

11:10

Dean Pesnell

GSFC, NASA

The Solar Dynamics Observatory: Your Eye on the Sun (Invited)

 

11:35

Nat Gopalswamy

MSFC, NASA

Earth-Affecting Solar Causes Observatory (EASCO): A Potential International Living with a Star Mission from Sun-Earth L5 (Invited)

 

12:00

Taylor, M.

RSSD, ESA

Cross-Scale and SCOPE: the future in Space Plasma Physics

 

12:15

Pollock, C. J. and
Burch, J. L.

Southwest Research
Institute

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) to Study Magnetic Reconnection

 

12:35

Ukhorskiy, S. and
Sibeck, D.

GSFC, NASA

The Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) mission

 

12:55

Jim Spann & Walter D. Gonzalez: Closing Session