Heliosphere Impact on Geospace: Research projects

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"Heliosphere Impact on Geospace" is one of the core projects of the fourth International Polar Year programme which will take place during March 2007 - March 2009. The project (IPY ID# 63) will be run by a federation of 29 international reserch groups listed below:
  • DEEVERT-IPY
    • Whole name:Deep vertical coupling:coupling processes in the atmosphere and their respons to solar variability and climate change
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:12
    • Contact Person:H. Roscoe, BAS, UK
  • Greenland IPY Space Science Symposium
    • Whole name:Greenland IPY Space Science Symposium on the Coupled Geospace System
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:14
    • Contact Person:C.R. Clauer, University of Michigan, USA
    • Symposium homepage
  • COMAP
    • Whole name:Conjugate observations and modeling of arcs and patches
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:72
    • Contact Person:C. Valladares, Institute for Scientific Research, USA
  • CoSTePA
    • Whole name:Correlated Solar-Terrestrial Polar Activities
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:99
    • Contact Person:E. Amata, IFSI/INAF, Italy
  • Auroral Optical Network
    • Whole name:International Network for Auroral Optical Studies for the Polar Ionosphere
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:118
    • Contact Person:I. Sandahl, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden
    • CIP ID:36
    • Project homepage
  • NOBILE
    • Whole name:Balloon Borne Investigation fo Earth, Atmosphere, and Space in the Polar Regions
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:155
    • Contact Person:S. Masi, University of La Sapienza, Italy
    • CIP ID:34
    • Institute homepage
  • ISPAM
    • Whole name:Incoherent Scatter Monitoring of the Polar Atmosphere
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:159
    • Contact Person:A. van Eyken, EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden
    • CIP ID:25
    • EISCAT homepage
  • MULTIPLEX
    • Whole name:Multi-Scale Plasma Exploration: A programme to studye the fundamental plasma physical processes which mediate energy flow in the solar-terrestrial system, and they ways in which these processes couple together
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:163
    • Contact Person:I. McCrea, RAL, UK
  • IHY
    • Whole name:International Heliophysical Year
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:172
    • Contact Person:R. Harrison, RAL, UK
    • CIP ID:1
  • SuperDARN
    • Whole name:SuperDARN measurements of upper atmospheric circulation
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:250
    • Contact Person:M. Freeman, BAS, UK
    • SuperDARN homepage
  • POGHEX
    • Whole name:Polar Gateways to Heliophysical Exploration
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:259
    • Contact Person:J.F. Cooper, NASA/GSFC, USA
    • CIP ID:62
  • IASWR
    • Whole name:Antarctic Space Weather: Using routine ground-based and relevant, freely available, space-based data sets daily space weather reports will be prepared
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:274
    • Contact Person:P. Wilkinson, Australia
    • CIP ID:33
  • Alaska Project
    • Whole name:Synergetic observations of dynamics-chemistry-electrodynamics in the arctic middle and upper atmosphere over Alaska
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:352
    • Contact Person:Y. Murayama, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
  • PANSY
    • Whole name:Program of the Antarctic Syowa MST (Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere)/ IS (Incoherent Scatter) radar
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:355
    • Contact Person:K. Sato, NIPR, Japan
    • Project homepage
  • Interhemispheric Study on Auroral Phenomena
    • Whole name:Interhemispheric Study on Conjugacy and Non-conjugacy of Auroral and Polar Ionospheric Disturbances using Ground-based Observation Network
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:422
    • Contact Person:A. Kadokura, NIPR, Japan
  • IITC
    • Whole name:Radio Tomographic imaging of the Arctic ionised atmosphere by the International Ionospheric Tomography Community
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:547
    • Contact Person:E. Pryse, University of Wales, UK
    • Project homepage
  • CRSAAMU
    • Whole name:Coordinated radar studies of the Arctic and Antarctic middel and upper atmosphere during IPY-4 period
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:550
    • Contact Person:T. Aso, NIPR, Japan
  • UAMPY
    • Whole name:Upper Atmospheric Monitoring for Polar Year 2007-2008
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:551
    • Contact Person:L. Alfonsi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
    • CIP ID:8
    • Poster about the project (pdf)
  • ICESTAR
    • Whole name:Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:554
    • Contact Person:K. Kauristie, FMI, Finland
  • ICESTAR/China
    • Contact Persons: H. Yang and R. Liu, Polar Research Institute of China
    • Institute homepage
  • ICESTAR/Norway
  • GLORIA
    • Whole name:Global Riometer Array
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:555
    • Contact Person:F. Honary, University of Lancaster, UK
  • VLF Beacon Transmitter at South Pole
    • Whole name:Very Low Frequency Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere and the Radiation Belts Using a VLF Beacon Transmitter at South Pole
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:587
    • Contact Person:U. Inan, Stanford University, USA
  • SWIMPA
    • Whole name:Space Weather Impacts in the Polar Atmosphere
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:603
    • Contact Person:E. Correia, CRAAM, Brazil
    • CIP ID:14
    • CIP ID:18
  • Canada#45
    • Whole name:Probing the Space and Upper Atmospheric Polar Environments
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:648
    • Contact Person:G. Sofko, University of Saskachewan, Canada
  • TIMIS
    • Whole name:Troposphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere interaction study over Antarctic Peninsula using network of automatic meteo-magnetic stations
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:803
    • Contact Person:Y. Yampolsky, National Academy of Science, Ukraine
  • Geospace Characterization
    • Whole name:Polar-equatorial ionospheric and magnetic storms characterization for the advancement of space weather prediction
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:894
    • Contact Person:Z.A.A. Rashid, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Cosmic Rays
    • Whole name:High-latitude monitoring of charged particle fluxes including cosmic rays in the Earth's polar atmosphere, and their relation with solar and geomagnetic disturbances
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:945
    • Contact Person:G.A. Zherebtsov, RAS, Russia
  • Magnetosphere
    • Whole name:Complex investigations of the dynamics of the Earth's magnetosphere and geomagnetic activity using space-borne and ground-based measurements
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:946
    • Contact Person:G.A. Zherebtsov, RAS, Russia
  • Polar Ionosphere
    • Whole name:Research into physical processes of the polar and subpolar ionosphere and the action of high-latitude disturbances on the midlatitude ionosphere using space-borne and ground-based measurements
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:947
    • Contact Person:G.A. Zherebtsov, RAS, Russia
  • Ionosphere Disturbances
    • Whole name:Dynamics of high-latitude ionosphere disturbances and their influences on the ionosphere of middle and low latitudes
    • IPY Expression of Interest ID:1078
    • Contact Person:G.A. Zherebtsov, RAS, Russia