1st Meeting of the Expert Team on Space Weather (19 - 21 October 2022)
Date & Time
19 - 21 October 2022 09:00 - 17:00
Logistics
Venue: WMO headquarters, Geneva
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Draft Agenda
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Wednesday19 October 2022 |
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Chair DAY 1: Kirsti KAURISTIE |
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09:00 |
1. OPENING OF THE SESSION |
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09:00 |
1.1. Welcome from ET-SWx Chairs and WMO |
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09:15 |
1.2. Organization of the session (WMO SEC) |
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09:25 |
1.3. Introduction of participants (Members) |
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09:50 |
1.4. Approval of the agenda |
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10:00 |
1.5 Review of previous SWX teams’ work under WMO (Terry Onsager, NOAA & Larisa Trichtchenko, ECCC) |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 |
2. REVIEW OF SPACE WEATHER RELATED ACTIVITIES |
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11:00 |
2.1 COSPAR activities (Maria Kuznetsova, COSPAR) Remotely |
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11:20 |
2.2 ISES activities (Jesse Andries, Director of ISES) |
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11:40 |
2.3 Space Safety (Juha-Pekka Luntama, ESA) |
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12:00 |
Lunch break |
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13:15 |
2. REVIEW OF SPACE WEATHER RELATED ACTIVITIES |
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13:15 |
2.4 CGMS/SWCG activities (Elsayed Talaat, CGMS) |
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13:35 |
2.5 GSICS subgroup on space weather (Elsayed Talaat, CGMS) CGMS WG II: CGMS WGII members are invited to nominate candidates for a Subgroup within GSICS on Space Weather Cal/Val and Intercalibration, which will be focused on providing intercalibration for Space Weather. |
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13:55 |
2.6 UNCOPUOS roadmap (Ian Mann, University of Alberta) Remotely |
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14:15 |
2.7 WMO Cataloging of Hazardous Events (James Douris, WMO Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services & Américo González Esparza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) |
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14:35 |
2.8 WMO-ISES-COSPAR Coordination (Kirsti Kauristie, Chair of ET-SWx) |
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15:00 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30 |
3. WMO DATA POLICY |
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15:30 |
3.1 Current Status and Discussion (Ken Holmlund, WMO Space Programme) |
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16:00 |
4. TRAINING AND EDUCATION |
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16:00 |
4.1 Training activities 4.1.1 VLMG-10 outcomes (Zoya Andreeva. WMO Space Programme) 4.1.2 SWx training activities of UBA in Argentina (Sergio Dasso, LAMP-UBA) 4.1.3 SWx training activities in Brazil (Joaquim Costa, INPE) Remotely VLMG-10.13 WMO SEC: to arrange a presentation at the upcoming virtual VLMG meeting from the space weather community (through ET-SWx) on the activities carried out (monitoring and warning of space weather events) |
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16:20 |
4.2 Lessons learnt from Space Weather Forecaster training activities (Mpho Tshisaphungo, SANSA) Remotely |
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16:40 |
Discussion on training needs |
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17:00 |
End of Day 1 |
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Thursday 20 October 2022 |
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Chair DAY 2: Lee-Ann MCKINNELL |
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09:00 |
5. DIVISION OF GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS |
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09:00 |
5.1 Solar observations (Margit Haberreiter, MétéoSwiss) Remotely 5.1.a Radiation monitoring from a new Space Weather Antarctic Laboratory (Sergio Dasso, LAMP-UBA) |
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09:30 |
5.2 Geomagnetic observations (Robyn Fiori, ECCC) Remotely |
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09:50 |
5.3 Ionospheric measurements (Joaquim Costa, INPE) Remotely |
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10:10 |
6. COORDINATION WITH ET-RFC |
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10:10 |
6.1 ET-RFC concerns on space weather matters (Eric ALLAIX, Chair of ET-RFC) RFC2022.10: ET Chair to address at the upcoming WMO ET-SWx meeting (19-21 Oct 2022) the need of identifying the key space weather systems that need to be protected, which should allow narrowing the WRC-23 AI 9.1 Topic a) down to a more reasonable number of space weather sensor types (i.e. the data that feeds into space weather predictions and warnings) as well as address a broader issue of harmonization of ground-based and space-based space weather observing systems to work on the best practices on defining the instrumentation types and associated frequencies that should be used for operational services. |
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10:30 |
6.2 Discussion |
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10:40 |
Coffee Break & Group photo |
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11:10 |
7. OSCAR |
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11:10 |
7.1 OSCAR/Space: Space Weather and WMO data Policy (Heikki Pohjola, WMO Space Programme) |
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11:40 |
7.2 OSCAR requirements and Surface-based capabilities 7.2.1 OSCAR Rolling Review of Requirements ( Etienne Charpentier, WMO Observing Networks and Measurement) 7.2.2 Space Weather stations in OSCAR surface: Canadian experience. (Larisa Trichtchenko, ECCC) |
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12:10 |
Lunch break |
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13:15 |
2. REVIEW OF SPACE WEATHER RELATED ACTIVITIES |
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13:15 |
2.9 ICAO activities (Jun Ryuzaki, ICAO) Remotely |
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13:35 |
8. CURRENT DATA ACCESS MECHANISMS |
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13:35 |
8.1 Current data access mechanisms (Mamoru Ishii, NICT) |
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13:55 |
8.2 Discussion on data exchange |
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14:10 |
9. SPACE WEATHER MODELING |
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14:10 |
9.1 Solar activity (Jesse Andries, Royal Observatory of Belgium) |
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14:35 |
9.2 Magnetosphere modelling (Norah Kaggwa, University of Bergen) |
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15:00 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30 |
9.3 Ionosphere modelling (Jens Berdermann, DWD) |
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15:55 |
9.4 Thermosphere modelling (David Jackson, Met Office) |
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16:20 |
10. WMO Space programme web resources |
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16:20 |
WMO Space Programme web resources (Zoya Andreeva. WMO Space Programme) ET-SSU-5 A.5.24: WMO SEC: to discuss the need for PAG with CGMS satellite operators (at CGMS WGIV future IS meetings) as well as with ET-SWx (19-21 October 2022) and report back to ET-SSU and report to ET-SSU virtual meeting. |
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17:00 |
End of Day 2 |
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Friday 21 October 2022 |
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Chair DAY 3: Kirsti KAURISTIE |
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09:00 |
WELCOME ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF WMO AND Q&A (Anthony Rea, WMO Infrastructure Department) |
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09:30 |
11. SPACE WEATHER STANDARDS |
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09:30 |
11.1 Introduction to WMO Measurement Standards and Best Practices Guides (Krunoslav Premec, WMO Measurement, Quality and Compliance Unit) |
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09:50 |
11.2 Discussion |
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10:10 |
12. ET-SWX ORGANIZATION AND WORK PLAN |
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10:10 |
12.1 ET-SWx work plan (Chairs & WMO Space Programme) |
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10:40 |
Coffee Break |
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11:10 |
12.2 Designation of WMO Focal Points |
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11:30 |
Action review and identification of Task Teams and Book captains (WMO SEC) |
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12:30 |
AOB |
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12:45 |
Next meetings |
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13:00 |
End of Day 3 and Adjourn |
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General Background Information
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