CCMC / SWRC - UNIVERSITIES
Space Weather Research, Education and Development Initiative
SW REDI Bootcamp 2015 Tutorials
(Bootcamp was held on June 2-12, 2015)
Week One
Tuesday 6/2/2015
• Welcome and Introduction (Yihua Zheng)
• Introduction to Space Weather (Antti Pulkkinen) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Sun and its Activity (Aleksandre Taktakishvilli) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Flares and CMEs and their impacts (Aleksandre Taktakishvilli) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) and their impacts (Yihua Zheng) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Quick start of iSWA (Marlo Maddox) [ PDF | PPT ]
▻ iSWA
Wednesday 6/3
• Lower Coronal Signatures of CMEs (Karin Muglach) (PDF)
▻ Some examples of lower coronal signature events (Video)
▻ Movie1 (mpg)
▻ Movie2 (mpg)
▻ Movie3 (mpg)
• Coronal holes and High Speed Streams (Karin Muglach) (PDF)
• Space Weather in Earth's Magnetosphere (Yari Collado-Vega) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Examples of iSWA layouts for different applications (Yihua Zheng) [PDF | PPT ]
Thursday 6/4
• Space Weather in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere (Yihua Zheng) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Space Weather in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere: satellite drag (Yihua Zheng) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Space Weather impacts (Yihua Zheng) [ PDF | PPT ]
• Realtime Modeling of CMEs using the WSA-ENLIL+Cone Model (Aleksandre Taktakishvilli) [ PDF | PPT ]
• CME Arrival Time Scoreboard (M. Leila Mays, Chiu Wiegand) [ PDF | PPT ]
▻ Link to CME Arrival Time Scoreboard
▻ Link to Flare Scoreboard planning page
Friday 6/5
• Introduction to the DONKI space weather database [ PDF | PPT ]
▻ Link to DONKI
• Space Weather Decision Dashboard (Antti Pulkkinen)
▻ Link to SWRC Dashboard
• Space Weather Models running in real-time or forecasting mode (Yihua Zheng) (PPT)
• Part 1: CME Analysis with StereoCAT for Space Weather (M. Leila Mays) [ PDF | PPT ]
▻ Also see Part 2: Limitations
▻ Link to StereoCAT
▻ Handout for CME analysis with StereoCAT; Summary of homework assignments
▻ Example Coronal Mass Ejection Analysis Process (video, Antti Pulkkinen)
▻ StereoCAT for CME parameter derivation (video, Antti Pulkkinen)
▻ Explanation of StereoCAT triangulation (video, Antti Pulkkinen)
• CME measurement hands on workshop (M. Leila Mays and Barbara Thompson)
Week Two
Track A: Intensive Space Weather Forecaster Training
Monday 6/8
• FastTrack Interface for running WSA-ENLIL+Cone simulations (Anna Chulaki, Aleksandre Taktakishvilli) [ PDF | PPT ]
▻ Link to FastTrack ENLIL+Cone model interface on the CCMC website
▻ FastTrack request submission procedure
▻ FastTrack DEMO
• Part 2: CME Analysis with StereoCAT for Space Weather: Limitations (Barbara Thompson, M. Leila Mays) [ PDF | PPT ]
• CME measurement hands on workshop (M. Leila Mays and Barbara Thompson)
Tuesday 6/9
• Space Weather forecasting with DONKI (M. Leila Mays, Chiu Wiegand)
▻ Link to DONKI
• Forecasting Checklist and Logs (DONKI) (M. Leila Mays, Chiu Wiegand)
▻ Link to SWRC Dashboard
• Notification assignments
Wednesday 6/10
• CME measurement workshop (M. Leila Mays and Barbara Thompson)
• Notification assignments
Thursday 6/11
• CME measurement with SWPC_CAT workshop (forecaster interns only) (Barbara Thompson and M. Leila Mays) [PDF]
▻ Handout for CME analysis with SWPC_CAT
• Ensemble CME measurement workshop (M. Leila Mays)
• Notification assignments
Friday 6/12
• Notification assignments
• Complete CME assignments
SW REDI Daily Assisgnments for 2015 (links to updated submission forms TBD)
- Tuesday 6/2: Assignment - Introduction to Space Weather
- Tuesday 6/2: Assignment - Sun and its activity
- Tuesday 6/2: Assignment - Flares and CMEs
- Tuesday 6/2: Assignment - Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs)
- Wednesday 6/3: Assignment - coronal holes and high speed streams
- Wednesday 6/3 Assignment - CME lower coronal signatures
- Wednesday 6/3: Assignment - Magnetosphere Part 1
- Wednesday 6/3: Assignment - Magnetosphere Part 2
- Wednesday 6/3: Assignment - iSWA layouts for different applications
- Thursda 6/4: Assignment - Ionosphere-Thermosphere Part A
- Thursday 6/4: Assignment - Ionosphere-Thermosphere Part B
- Thursday 6/4: Assignment - WSA-ENLIL Cone modeling
- Friday 6/5: CME Assignment Zero (for in-class CME measurement workshop, due 6/8)-
- Friday 6/5: Assignment - Space Weather Decision Dashboard
- Monday 6/8: Practice submitting Fast-Track ENLIL simulation (in-class exercise)
- Monday 6/8: CME Assignment One (due 6/9) -
- Monday 6/8: CME Assignment Two (due 6/10) -
- Tuesday 6/9: Assignment - Notifications part 1
- Tuesday 6/9: Assignment - Notifications part 2
- Tuesday - Thursday 6/9-11: DONKI notification assignments (assigned via email)
- Thursday 6/11: CME Assignment Three (due 6/12) -
- SW REDI BOOTCAMP EVALUATION FORM
Useful links
- Glossary of Space Weather related terms
- NASA GSFC CDAW movie generator
- iSWA Cygnets Catalog with Cygnet description
- StereoCAT (Stereo CME Analysis Tool for measuring CMEs)
- SW DONKI
- CME Arrival Time Scoreboard