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Space Weather REDI Bootcamp Tutorials 2017 - week one

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Tuesday 6/6/2017

Introduction to Space Weather (Antti Pulkkinen) [ PDF | assignment ]
iSWA quick start (Karin Muglach) [ PDF | PPT ]
- iSWA
Solar photospheric and coronal observations (Karin Muglach) [ PDF | assignment ]
Solar flares (Gordon Holman) [ PDF | PPT ]
Solar eruptive event (flares, CMEs) monitoring for space weather (Karin Muglach) [ PDF | assignment (flares, CMEs) ]
- Guide to SDO wavelengths
- Movie1 (mpg)
- Movie2 (mpg)
- Movie3 (mpg)
- Some examples of lower coronal signature events (Video)
Coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles (CMEs and SEPs) (Nat Gopalswamy) [ PDF | PPT | assignment (SEPs) ]

Wednesday 6/7

Coronal holes and solar wind (Karin Muglach) [ PDF | assignment ]
Coronal modeling with WSA and ADAPT (Nick Arge) [ PDF | MOVIE ]
Heliospheric modeling with WSA-ENLIL+Cone (Leila Mays) [ PDF | PPT | assignment]
Solar cycle predictions (Dean Pesnell) [ PDF ]
Space Weather in Magnetosphere (Yari Collado-Vega) [ PDF ]
Van Allen Radiation Belts (David Sibeck) [ PDF ]

Thursday 6/8

Space Weather radiation effects on spacecraft (Yihua Zheng) [ PDF | PPT | assignment ]
Introduction to the neutral atmosphere (Erin Dawkins) [ PDF | PPT ]
Space Weather in the ionosphere (Chigo Ngwira) [ PDF | PPT | assignment ]
Introduction to the Aurora (Elizabeth MacDonald) [ PDF | PPT ]
Example Forecasts of Space Weather event chains (Yihua Zheng) [ PDF | PPT ]
- Example iSWA layout
- Flowchart of decision-making process in Space Weather forecasting (PDF)
Introduction to the DONKI Space Weather Database (Leila Mays, Chiu Wiegand) [ PDF ]
Introduction to CCMC Space Weather Scoreboards (Leila Mays) [ PDF ]
Prebiotic chemistry and atmospheric warming of early Earth by an active young Sun (Vladimir Airapetian) [ PDF | PPT ]

Friday 6/9

Part 1: CME Analysis with StereoCAT for Space Weather (Leila Mays) [ PDF | PPT | assignment (#0) ]
- CME assignment submission form: #0: CME number 1, 2, 3, 4
- Also see Part 2: Limitations
- 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)
  
  Links to help with CME assignments:
- Link to StereoCAT
- Solar grid overlays: Solar Monitor; iSWA magnetic connectivity (SDO only)
- Where is STEREO tool
- iSWA layout: EUV & coronagraphs (40 frames)
- NASA GSFC CDAW movies (science level data):
  Example base urls: SDO EUV, STEREO EUV, SOHO LASCO, STEREO SECCHI COR2.
  You can directly edit the dates and instrument codes in these urls.
  Other instruments codes can be found here.
- NASA GSFC CDAW daily browse movies