Space Weather Research, Education and Development Initiative
TRACK B: Research Topic Discussions/How To Use CCMC Tools for Research
Building 21, Room 261 (CCMC Lab)Bootcamp webpage | Bootcamp agenda | Tutorials for Week 1 (combined track) | TRACK A Tutorials for Week 2
Tutorials for Track B
2016 Bootcamp - Week 2
(06/13-06/16, 2016)
Monday 6/13
• Tour of models at the CCMC and Introduction to Runs on Request (Masha Kuznetsova) PDF | PPT
• Hands-on Magnetosphere Runs on Request Exercises (Masha Kuznetsova)
• Hands-on Inner Magnetosphere Runs on Request Exercises (Yihua Zheng)
• What Kameleon Can Do for You? (Asher Pembroke)
• Hands-on Ionosphere Runs on Request Exercises (Ja Soon Shim)
Tuesday 6/14
• Kinetic Simulation Tools at the CCMC (Yi-Hsin Liu)
• Hands-On Solar/Heliosphere Runs on Request Exercises (Peter MacNeice, Aleksandre Taktakishvili)
• CMEs and SEPs (Nat Gopalswamy) PDF | PPT - in Room 183A
Nat's lecture is based on the following papers:
▻ History and development of CMEs as a key player in solar terrestrial relationship
▻ Coronal Mass Ejections: a Summary of Recent Results
Wednesday 6/15
• iSWA Web Services (Justin Bobblitt)
• Student presentations/introductions
• Meeting with scientists/mentors/formulating research topics
Thursday 6/16
• Meeting with NASA/GSFC scientists — inspiration for selecting research topics:
• Spiro Antiochos — Science of CMEs
• Antti Pulkkinen — Science of Geomagnetically Induced Currents
• Work on research topics/meeting with mentors
Friday 6/17
• Work on research topics/meeting with mentors
Useful links
- CCMC Runs on Request
- CCMC user help
- Useful CCMC Visualization Links
- Glossary of space weather related terms
- iSWA Cygnet Descriptions