VarSITI Closing Symposium
June 10÷14, 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria

Program&Presentations

A Final Program

Sunday 9 June

16:00-19:00 Registration

Monday 10 June

08:30-13:30 Registration

June 10  Monday
Big hall

9:30-10:30 Inaugural session:
Welcome address (TBC)
Gopalswamy N., Overview of SCOSTEP (K)
Shiokawa K., Georgieva K., Overview of VarSITI program (K)

10:30-11:00   Coffee break
Overview of VarSITI’s projects
Chair: Kazuo Shiokawa

11:00-11:30 Nandi D., SEE project (K)

11:30-12:00 Zhang J., ISEST-MiniMax project (K)

12:00-12:30 Kanekal S., SPeCIMEN project (K)

12:30-13:00 Ward W., ROSMIC project (K)

13:00-14:00   Lunch break

SCOSTEP's next scientific program
Chair: Jie Zhang

14:00-14:30 Daglis I., PRESTO program (K)

14:30-14:55 Kusano K., Toward the physics-based prediction of solar storm (I)

14:55-15:20 Dikpati M., Advances and limitations in physics-based predictions of short-term and decadal solar activity (I)

15:20-15:50   Coffee break

Chair: Shri Kanekal

15:50-16:15 Dasso S., State of the art and gaps on the role of interplanetary structures on Sun-Earth coupling (I)

16:15-16:40 Krivova N., Understanding and modelling solar and stellar radiative variability (I)

16:40-17:05 Horne R.B., The predictability of the Earth’s radiation belts (I)

17:05-17:25 Shen F., Yang Y., Feng X., Prediction of solar wind parameters at 1AU using an artificial neural network and multiple observations

17:25-17:45 Imada,  S., Iijima, H., Hotta, H., Kusano, K., Shiota D., Predicting solar cycle 25 using surface flux transport model (PSTEP)

17:45-18:15 Nosé M.Practice of research data management in solar-terrestrial physics (I)

18:30-21:00            Welcome party

Legend: (K) = keynote talk;       (I) = invited talk

June 11 Tuesday
Hall 1

Chair: Dibyendu Nandi

Hall 2

Chair: Franz-Josef Lübken

09:30-09:55 Martens P., The Faint Young Sun paradox mitigated by a sustained initial massive solar wind (I)

09:30-09:55 Qian L., Woods T.N., Solar flare effects on the thermosphere and ionosphere (I)

09:55-10:15 Obridko V.,  Ragulskaya M.,
Khramova E.
, Young Sun, galactic processes and the origin of life

09:55-10:20 Miyoshi Y., Jin H., Fujiwara H., Shinagawa H., Upward propagation of gravity waves and its impact on the Thermosphere-Ionosphere system (I)

10:15-10:40 Brun A.S., Strugarek A., The evolving solar-stellar dynamo (I)

10:20-10:40 Gavrilov M.N., Kshevetskii S.P., Dynamical and thermal effects of nonlinear acoustic-gravity waves in the upper atmosphere at high and low solar activity

10:40-11:00 Katsova M., The evolution of the solar-stellar activity

10:40-11:00 Takahashi H., Wrasse C.M., Figueiredo C.A.O.B., Barros D., Abdu M.A., Otsuka Y., Shiokawa K., Paulino I., Equatorial plasma bubble seeding under propagation of MSTIDs and MLT-gravity waves

11:00-11:30   Coffee break

Poster size: (width) 75 cm × (height) 135 cm

11:30-13:00   Poster session 1

13:00-14:30   Lunch break

   

Hall 1

Chair: Piet Martens

Hall 2

Chair: Viswanathan Lakshminarayanan

14:30-14:50 Nandi D., Bhowmik P.,
Century-scale reconstruction of solar activity and a prediction for sunspot cycle 25

14:30-14:50 Pallamraju D., Singh R.P., Mandal S., Karan D.P., Laskar F.I., Investigations on upper atmospheric variability on a global scale due to the influence of solar forcing from above and vertical coupling from below

14:50-15:10 Gopalswamy N., Yashiro S., Mäkelä P., Akiyama S., Predicting the solar cycle strength from the polar brightness: The contribution from the Nobeyama radioheliograph

14:50-15:15 Yue J., Xu S., Xue X., Vadas S.L., Miller S.D., Azeem I., Straka W. III, Hoffmann L., Coupling of meteorology severe weather and space weather via the excitations and propagations of gravity waves (I)

15:10-15:30 Irbah A., Damé L., et al., Variations of solar oblateness with the 22-year magnetic cycle

15:15-15:35 Belehaki A., and TechTIDE EC consortium. Real-time identification of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances and validation methodologies

15:30-15:50 Wu C.-C., Kan L., Lepping R.P. Solar cycle variation of the heliospheric plasma sheet thickness

15:35-15:55 Shiokawa K., Otsuka Y., and PWING Team, Recent Results from the ground-based multi-point network observation of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere by the OMTIs and the PWING project

15:50-16:10 Kilcik A., Özgüc A., Long Term Temporal and Periodic Variation of Flare Index: Comparison with International Sunspot Number Time Series

15:55-16:15 Luebken F.-J., ROMIC-2: A future perspective for a new SCOSTEP related science programme in Germany

16:10-16:30 Watanabe T., Data-led Study on the Sun-Earth Variability and its Relationship to Socio-Economic Activity in 18th-19th Centuries including the Dalton Minimum

16:15-16:35 Roussev Ilia I., Present and future opportunities for geospace science research in the USA

16:35-17:00   Coffee break

17:00-18:30   VarSITI STR meeting

Legend: (K) = keynote talk;       (I) = invited talk

June 12  Wednesday
Hall 1

Chair: Pertti Makela

Hall 2

Chair: Yoshi Miyoshi

09:30-09:50 Podgorny I.M., Podgorny A.I., Mechanism for solar flare based on energy storage in the magnetic field of the current sheet

09:30-09:50 Kanekal S., Baker D., Sibeck D., Van Allen Probes observations of high energy radiation belt electrons and SEP protons: Space weather aspects

09:50-10:10 Demetrescu C., Dobrica V., Georgieva K., Kirov B., External drivers of decadal variations in the geomagnetic field and Earth’s rotation

09:50-10:10 Katsavrias C., Daglis I.A., Li W., On the cause of electron acceleration and loss in the outer Van Allen belt

10:10-10:30 Yermolaev Yu.I.,  Lodkina I.G., Yermolaev M.Yu., Borodkova N.L., Riazantseva M.O., Properties of interplanetary drivers of magnetospheric disturbances

10:10-10:30 Tsagouri I., Belehaki A., Koutroumbas K., Xenaki I., Quantifying ionospheric disturbances for user oriented applications

10:30-10-50 Sarp V., Kilcik A., Possible non-linear interactions between some space weather parameters

10:30-10-50 Miloch W.J., and IPIR team. Ionospheric plasma irregularities studied globally with the Swarm satellites

10:50-11:10 Kukoleva A., Kononova N., Krivolutsky A., Response of circulation indexes in the lower atmosphere of Northern Hemisphere to solar cycle

10:50-11:10 Narayanan V.L., Balan N.,
A statistical study of co-occurrence of spread F and sporadic E in the middle latitudes

11:10-11:30 Veretenenko S., Ogurtsov M.
Temporal variability of solar activity influences on the lower atmosphere and its possible reasons

11:10-11:30 Lastovicka J., Progress in the analysis of long-term trends in the MLT region

11:30-12:30   Brunch

13:00-15:30   visit to either:

  • National history museum
  • Boyana church
15:30-19:00    Sofia sightseeing walking tour
Legend: (K) = keynote talk;       (I) = invited talk

June 13 Thursday
Big hall

Chair: William Ward

09:30-09:55 Desai M.I., Dayeh M.A., Ebert R.W., Energetic particles in the heliosphere and their impacts on geospace (I)

09:55-10:15 Malandraki O., Solar energetic particles: science and applications

10:15-10:40 Genot V., and the CDPP team. Data management, analysis tools and science applications by the Plasma Physics Data Center (CDPP) (I)

10:40-11:05 Funke B. Towards a better understanding of EPP effects on the middle atmosphere and climate (I)

11:05-11:30   Coffee break

Poster size: (width) 75 cm × (height) 135 cm

11:30-13:00   Poster session 2

13:00-14:30   Lunch break

Chair: Lastovicka Jan

14:30-14:50 Tomikawa Y., Atmospheric response to solar proton events in the latest reanalysis data

14:50-15:15 Török T., Sun-to-Earth MHD simulations of large solar eruptions (I)

15:15-15:40 Dumbovic M., Utilizing galactic cosmic rays to understand the Sun-to-Earth evolution of CMEs (I)

15:40-16:00 Gopalswamy N. , Akiyama S. , Mäkelä P. , Yashiro S. , Xie H., Solar energetic particle event associated with the 2017 September 6 coronal mass ejection

16:00-16:30   Coffee break

Chair: Nat Gopalswamy

16:30-16:50 Zagainova Yu.S., Fainshtein V.G., Gromova L.I., Gromov S.V., Source regions identification and geophysical effects of stealth coronal mass ejections

16:50-17:10 Wu C.-C., Kan L., Lepping R.P., Lynn H., The 04-10 September 2017 Sun-Earth connection events: solar flares, coronal mass ejections/magnetic clouds, and geomagnetic storms

17:10-17:35 Zhang S., Erickson P., Coster A., Goncharenko L., Global observations of ionospheric responses to 6-10 Sept 2017 solar events: from solar flares to geomagnetic storms (I)

17:35-17:55 Dobrica V., Demetrescu Cr., Greculeasa R., Stefan Cr., Surface electric field over Europe as hazardous response to the intense/severe geomagnetic storms of the solar cycle 24

17:55-18:15 Krivolutsky A., Cherepanova L., Vyushkova T., Tuniyants T., Solar cycle in UV and its response in D-region (3D simulations)

                        

Legend: (K) = keynote talk;       (I) = invited talk

14 June Friday

Chair: Katya Georgieva

09:30-09:50 Clette F., Lefèvre L., Reconciling the sunspot and group number series

09:50-10:10 Gopalswamy N., Mäkelä P., Yashiro S., Akiyama S., A Catalog of Interplanetary Type II Radio Bursts Observed by the Wind/WAVES Instrument

10:10-10:30 Samwel S., Miteva R., Solar energetic electrons and radio emission signatures

10:30-11:00 Makela P., Gopalswamy N., Yashiro S., Akiyama S., Xie H., Michalek G., Data catalogs available at the CDAW Data Center (I)

11:00-11:30   Coffee break

11:30-12:00      Final discussion and closing of the symposium

12:00-14:30    Farewell barbecue
Legend: (K) = keynote talk;       (I) = invited talk

Poster sessions
Poster size: (width) 75 cm × (height) 135 cm
Poster session 1

1-1. Adebesin O., J.O.Adeniyi, S.J.Adebiyi, S.O.Ikubanni. Dependence of equatorial ionization gradient with Sq current and F2-layer bottomside thickness parameter in the African region

1-2. Belakhovsky V.B., Shiokawa K., Matsuoka A., , Wang S.-Y., Kazama Y., Tam S., Kasahara S.,
Yokota S., Keika K., Hori T., Shinohara I., Miyoshi Y.
, The generation of monochromatic PC4 pulsations by the electronic cloud

1-3. Borisenko A.V., Podgorny I.M., Podgorny A.I., Using CUDA supercomputing for acceleration of calculations in study of solar flare mechanism for coronal MHD simulation

1-4. Dasso S. , Gulisano A.M., Areso O., Pereira M., et al, for the LAGO collaboration,
First observations from the s pace w eather Antarctic node of the Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO)

1-5. Dechev M., Duchlev P., Koleva K., Case study of a filament eruption associated with a C8.4 flare

1-6. Despirak I.V., Kozelova T.V., Kozelov B.V., Lubchich A.A., THEMIS and ground-based observations during the 24 December 2014 event

1-7. Duchlev P., Dechev M., Koleva K., Eruptions of two coupled flux ropes of a filament and associated ribbon flare and CME

1-8. Hazra S., Brun Al.S., Buchlin E., Reville V., Strugarek A., Perri B., Effect of solar variability on the solar wind during Cycles 23 and 24

1-9. Ikubanni S.O., Adebiyi S.J., Adebesin B.O., Adeniyi J.O., TEC variation within the African EIA region during the recent similar intense geomagnetic storms and IRI-2016 evaluation

1-10. Katsavrias Ch., Sandberg I., Li W., Podladchikova O., Daglis I.A., Papadimitriou C., Tsironis C., Aminalragia-Giamini S., Highly relativistic electron flux enhancement during the weak geomagnetic storm of April–May 2017

1-11. Kaushik S.C., Kaushik S., Transient plasma signatures and space weather

1-12. Krivolutsky A., Cherepanova L., Dement’eva A., Tuniyants T., Climate variability induced by solar cycle (simulations with ARM and data analysis )

1-13. Miteva R., Veronig A., Samwel S.W., Koleva K., Dechev M., Dickson E., Dissauer K., Temmer M., Kozarev K., Kashapova L., On the flare contribution to solar energetic particles

1-14. Nasi A., Daglis I.A., Katsavrias Ch., Li W., Effect of Very Low Frequency (VLF) waves on the acceleration of electrons to relativistic energies

1-15. Nikolova N., Arsov T., Angelov I., Angelov Ch., Participation of BEO Moussala into SEVAN global network

1-16. Pires R., Fonseca J.M., Mora A., Ribeiro R., Dorotovič I., Rybák J., Automatic detection and tracking of solar features from the AIA/SDO images - a web tool

1-17. Panagiotis A., Mavromichalaki H., Geoeffectiveness of the interplanetary oronal mass  Ejections over the years 1996-2017

1-19. Tsvetkov Ts., Temmer M., Miteva R., 3D reconstruction of interacting CMEs and related SEP characteristics

1-20. Werner R., Guineva V., Sunspot number prognoses for the solar cycles 24 and 25

Poster size: (width) 75 cm × (height) 135 cm
Poster session 2

2-1. Adebiyi  S.J., Adeniyi J.O., Adebesin B.O., Ikubanni S.O., Pattern of digisonde-measured scale height derived at an African equatorial station

2-2. Belakhovsky V.B., Shiokawa K., Matsuoka A., Kasahara Y., Shinohara I., Miyoshi Y., The long-lasting QP emissions observed on ERG satellite and Lovozero station

2-3. Despirak I.V., Kleimenova N.G., Gromova L.I., Gromov S.V., Malysheva L.M., Space weather event on 7-8 September 2017: magnetic supersubstorms and dayside polar substorms

2-4. Guineva V., Despirak I., Kleimenova N., Werner R., Substorm activity at high and middle latitudes during large geomagnetic storms

2-5. Figueiredo C.A.O.B., Takahashi H., Wrasse C.M., Otsuka Y., Shiokawa K., Buriti R.A., Paulino I., Barros D., Tilted equatorial plasma bubble and plasma blobs after interaction with medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances and midnight brightness wave

2-6. Koleva K., Duchlev P., Dechev M., Miteva R., Hierarchical relations between eruptive prominence properties, flare evolution and CME kinematics in large SEP events

2-7. Kozarev K., Temmer M., Veronig A., Miteva R., Dechev M., Dissauer K., Radial and Tangential Kinematics of EUV Coronal Bright Fronts: Implications for SEP Acceleration Efficiency

2-8. Manuilova R., Yankovsky V., Vorobeva E., The [CO2] altitude profile retrieval from the measured O2 emissions in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region

2-9. Miteva R., Kashapova L., Tsvetkov Ts., Myagkova I., Bogomolov A., Myshyakov I., Petrov N., Zhdanov D., Danov D., The SEP origin project: Results from the Bulgarian-Russian bilateral project

2-10. Nade D.P., Potdar Swapnil S., Pawar R.P., Jeni V.N. , Nikte S.S., Chavan G.A., Taori A., Siingh Devendraa, Trend analysis of total column ozone during three recent solar cycles over India

2-11. Popov A.A., Gavrilov N.M., Perminov V.I., Pertsev N.N., Medvedeva I.V., Long-term changes in the intensity of mesoscale variations in hydroxyl rotational temperature near the mesopause as indicators of dynamic processes in the underlying atmosphere

2-12. Shkevov R., Erokhin N.S., Loznikov V.M., Zolnikova N.N., Mikhailovskaya L.A., Predictability of a variable source of high speed streams of ultrarelativistic particles based on the simulation analysis

2-13. Suzuki S., Park J., Otsuka Y., Shiokawa K., Liu H., Lühr H., Neutral and plasma density perturbations in the top-/bottom-side ionosphere associated with MSTIDs

2-14. Temmer M. , Holzknecht L., Dumbovic M., Vrsnak B., CME density derivation from remote sensing stereoscopic data

2-15. Tsvetkov Ts., Petrov N., Myshyakov I., Miteva R., Solar prominence observations during 2017 total solar eclipse

2-16. Umuhire A.C., Uwamahoro J., Gopalswamy N., Mungufeni P., Monstein C., Characterization of c oronal m ass e jections from the associated h igh f requency type II solar radio bursts

2-17. Vashalomidze Z., T.V.Zaqarashvili, V.Kukhianidze. Prominence Eruption Triggered by Coronal Rain in the Solar Atmosphere Observed bySDO/AIA and STEREO/EUVI

2-18. Veretenenko S., Ogurtsov M., Obridko V., Long-term variations in occurrence frequency of magnetic storms with sudden and gradual commencements

2-19. Yashiro S., Gopalswamy N., Akiyama S., Mäkelä P., White-light signatures of shocks driven by coronal mass ejections and interplanetary type II radio bursts