International School of Space Science - CIFS

The Polar Upper Atmosphere: From Science to Operational Issues

THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE: OVERVIEW

Making the ionosphere - All in a Morning’s Work

Lecturer: Michael Mendillo (University of Boston)

Observing the ionosphere - Thermosphere - Mesophere System

Lecturer: Michael Mendillo (University of Boston)

GROUND BASED MONITORING INFRASTRUCTURES AT POLAR LATITUDES

Ionosondes and GNSS network

Lecturer: Ingrid Hunstad (INGV, Roma)

Geomagnetic network (instruments and data)

Lecturer: Domenico Di Mauro (INGV, Roma)

SuperDARN (instruments and data)

Lecturer: Maria Federica Marcucci (INAF, Roma)

The Antarctic-Arctic Radiation-belt (Dynamic) Deposition

Lecturer: Mark Clilverd (BAS)

IONOSPHERIC MODELLING

Ionospheric Modelling I: Nequick model and data assimilation

Lecturer: Bruno Nava (ICTP, Trieste)

Ionospheric Modelling II: TEC gradients and scintillation climatology

Lecturer: Luca Spogli (INGV, Roma)

PERTURBED GEOSPACE AND ITS EFFECTS ON TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS

Overview of Space Weather effects on the ionosphere

Lecturer: Alan Wood (Nottingham Trent University)

Coronal Mass Ejection modelling and forecasting

Lecturer: Dario Del Moro (University of Roma Tor Vergata)

Space Weather effects on critical operations and activity in the High North

Lecturer: Paal Brekke (Norwegian Space Centre, Oslo)

Mitigation of Ionospheric Scintillation Effects for Precise GNSS Positioning

Lecturer: Sreeja Vadakke Veettil (University of Nottingham)

Hands on web databases

Lecturer: Spogli - Wood Cesaroni - Piersanti - (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Nottingham Trent University)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM - SCAR

Overview of the SCAR Program

Lecturer: Antonio Meloni (INGV, Roma)

Examples of Successful Proposals

Lecturer: Lucilla Alfonsi (INGV, Roma)

TEAM BUILDING

First Iteration of a Project Proposal

Lecturer: Giorgiana De Franceschi (INGV, Roma)