Space Weather Research, Education and Development Initiative

SW REDI Bootcamp 2016 Tutorials

(June 7-17, 2016)

Bootcamp webpage | Bootcamp agenda | TRACK A Tutorials for Week 2 | TRACK B Tutorials for Week 2

Week One

Week Two

Track A: Intensive Space Weather Forecaster Training

Building 21, Room 183

(Click here to see the materials for Track B: (Research Topic Discussions/How To Use CCMC Tools for Research))

Monday 6/13
     •  FastTrack Interface for Running WSA-ENLIL+Cone Simulations (Anna Chulaki) PDF | PPT
          ▻   FastTrack run submission handout
     •  Part 2: CME Analysis with StereoCAT for Space Weather: Limitations (Leila Mays) PDF | PPT
     •  CME measurement hands on workshop (Leila Mays)
Tuesday 6/14
     •   CME measurement with SWPC_CAT workshop I (Leila Mays and Sandro Taktakishvili)
          ▻   SWPC CAT Analysis Procedure handout
          ▻   SWPC_CAT manual
          ▻   Solarsoft installation guide (for those who have access to IDL)
          ▻   Reference to cone projection method
     •   CME measurement with SWPC_CAT workshop II (Leila Mays and Yihua Zheng)
     •   Ensemble CME measurement workshop (Leila Mays and Karin Muglach)
     •   CMEs and SEPs (Nat Gopalswamy) PDF | PPT
         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
     •   CME measurement workshop (Leila Mays and Yihua Zheng)
Thursday 6/16
     •   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 (see below)
Friday 6/17
     •   Notification assignments (see below)

SW REDI Daily Assisgnments for 2016

Tuesday 6/7: Assignment - Introduction to Space Weather
Tuesday 6/7: Assignment - Sun and its activity
Tuesday 6/7: Assignment - Flares, CMEs and their impacts
Tuesday 6/7: Assignment - Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs)
Wednesday 6/8: Assignment - CME lower coronal signatures
Wednesday 6/8: Assignment - coronal holes and high speed streams
Wednesday 6/8: Assignment - iSWA layouts for different applications
▻ Layout for this homework
Thursday 6/9: Assignment - Ionosphere-Thermosphere
Thursday 6/9: Assignment - Ionosphere-Thermosphere: satellite drag
Thursday 6/9: Assignment - WSA-ENLIL Cone modeling
Thursday 6/9: Assignment - Space Weather Impacts on Satellites
Friday 6/10: Assignment - Space Weather Decision Dashboard
Friday 6/10: CME Assignment Zero (for in-class CME measurement workshop, due Monday 06/13)

Assignment Zero part 1

Assignment Zero part 2

Assignment Zero part 3

Assignment Zero part 4

Monday 6/13: Assignment - Practice submitting ENLIL ROR Request (in-class exercise)
Monday 6/13: CME Assignment One (due Wednesday 06/15)
| event movies

Tuesday 6/14: CME Assignment Two (due Wednesday 06/15)
| event movies

Tuesday 6/14: CME Assignment Three (due Thursday 06/16) |

Summary of instructions for CME Assignments Zero, One, Two, and Three

Thursday - Friday 6/16-17 : Assignment - Notifications part 1 | Assignment - Notifications part 2

Tuesday 6/21: Identification of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) Using Real-Time In Situ Data (presentation by Lan Jian) PDF | PPT

Useful links

Movie instructions and help:
Start with http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/movie/ and pick a movie pair, e.g.
SDO_A193+SDO_A304
with url
http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/movie/make_javamovie.php?img1=sdo_a304&img2=sdo_a193&stime=20131022_0000&etime=20131022_0400

To get other image pairs go to
http://helio-vo.eu/services/interfaces/helio-cxs_uix.php#tabs-cdaw
To generate a working url, take everything after the question mark and replace it with everything after the question mark of the cdaw link above.

Or you can directly edit the cdaw link using the following instument codes in img1 and img2
sdo_a304
sdo_a193
lasc2rdf
lasc3rdf
stb_cor2
sta_cor2

another source for browse movies is http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/stereo/daily_movies/2015/03/01/
All instrument codes possible can be found in the filenames on this page: http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/movie/imagelist/2016/04/