Participants from SOTERIA

• Markidis Stefano, KU Leuven
• Bonte Katrien, KU Leuven
• Gburek Szymon; SRC-PAS
• Rollett Tanja, GRAZ
• Gryciuk Magdalena; SRC-PAS
• Callebaut Benoit, ROB
• D'Huys Elke, ROB
• Cabanas Carlos, ROB
• Podgorski Piotr, SRC-PAS
• Yalim Mehmet Sarp, KU Leuven
• Bosman Eckhard, UGOE
• Dominique Marie, ROB
• Ewa Chmielewska, SRC-PAS

Suggestions gathered from SOTERIA

• Yannick Beniguel (IEEA) on scintillations (medium development and modelling + propagation), in collaboration with Pr Radicella who works on ionospheric problems in Trieste

• Petra Vanlommel (ROB): operational space weather services.

• David Berghmans (ROB): on space born data & instrumentation

• Frederic Clette (ROB): on ground instrumentation

• Volker Bothmer (UGOE): "Introduction to the Physics of the Sun, Heliosphere and Space Weather"

• Giovanni Lapenta (KU Leuven): Theoretical and numerical physics-based models with focus on the issue of modelling fundamental processes crossing multiple scales (kinetic to MHD)

• Gabor Toth or colleagues at Michigan for the overall modelling of space weather

• Arnold Hanslmeier (UNIGRAZ): topics could be space weather and space climate; space weather on extrasolar planetary systems; the Sun as a star.

• Tibor Torok or Guillaume Aulanier (OBSPARIS): numerical modelling of CMEs close to the Sun (with emphasis on CME initiation)

List of Topics (from Masserotti)

International Advanced School on Space Weather Modelling and Applications

(1-14) March 2010 or (4-17) October 2010

List of Topics

A. Space Weather Drivers and the Relevant Physical Environments

1. The quiet and the active Sun
2. The Interplanetary Space
3. The Earth's Magnetosphere
4. The Earth’s Ionosphere
5. The Earth’s Thermosphere
6. Coupling between the Earth’s magnetospheric, atmospheric and ionospheric regions
7. Magnetospheres of other planets in the solar system
8. Atmospheres of other planets
9. Ionospheres of other planets

B. Space Weather Impacts on Technological Systems and Humans

1. Effects on astronauts
2. Effects on aircraft crews and passengers
3. Effects on spacecrafts
4. Effects on radio communication and navigation systems
5. Effects on ground-based technological systems

C. Space Weather Monitoring and Data Handling

1. Space-borne monitoring of Space Weather events
2. Ground-based monitoring of Space Weather events
3. Methods and tools for data sharing, data mining and data analysis
4. Resources for advanced data handling: data centers and VxOs
5. Future perspectives

D. Space Weather Modelling Techniques

1. Empirical models based on statistical data analysis
2. Data assimilation techniques
3. Theoretical and numerical physics-based models
4. Real-time updating
5. Modelling:
   1. Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
   2. Energetic particle events in Interplanetary Space and Geospace
   3. X-ray effects in Geospace
   4. Ionospheric electron density
   5. Ionospheric scintillation effects
   6. Ionospheric storms
   7. Atmospheric heating
   8. Geomagnetic storms
6. Comprehensive modelling of the Sun-Earth environment
7. Data modelling online tools and resources
8. Operating Systems for Real-Time Space Weather Products and Services