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INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK	UPPSALA

Swedish Institute of Space Physics	(59°50.272′N, 17°38.786′E)

Nineth EISCAT-3D User Meeting

EISCAT Scientific Association

EISCAT_3D User Meeting 2018

The EISCAT_3D (E3D) project has now been officially started with an opening event on September 7, 2017. Its 9th user meeting will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, on May 8-9, 2018. As usual, the meeting provides a forum for interested scientists who may or may not be directly involved in the design and construction of the E3D project, and also for persons working more with its administrative, logistic, and technical aspects.

This is the meeting's second announcement including a preliminary programme.

Programme

The start of the core meeting is 9 am on Tuesday, May 8, the end is around noon on Wednesday, May 9. Monday, May 7, afternoon is reserved for preparatory meetings, splinters, etc. The E3DDS Kick-off meeting will take place on Monday in room ITC 1145. For the E3D user meeting please contact anyone of the programme committee, Lisa Baddeley, Anita Aikio, Ian McCrea, Yasunobu Ogawa, Johan Kero, or Craig Heinselman, for suggestions about the meeting programme. This year we have encouraged particularly contributions about complementary projects and instrumentation, and also on software and data solutions for EISCAT and EISCAT_3D.

The preliminary programme is

May 8, Tuesday, 09.00-17.00:
Supplementary instrument roadmap, E3D in national programmes, complementary projects.

Location: Room 1111 in the ITC area (across the road from the Ångström Laboratory)

09.00-09.05: Practical Information, Stephan Buchert
09.05-09.10: Opening and Welcome, Craig Heinselmann, EISCAT
09.10-09.40: EISCAT_3D Status of Preparations, Craig Heinselmann, EISCAT
09.40-09.50: EISCAT_3D Status in Finnland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, UK, Anita Aikio, Stephan Buchert, Ian McCrea, Yasunobu Ogawa, Björn Gustavsson
09.50-10.15: EISCAT_3D Supplementary Instrument Roadmap, Anita Aikio, Oulu University

10.15-10.45: Coffee break

10.45-11.10: Thoughts about complementary instrumentation and possible EU space weather initiatives, Ian McCrea, STFC
11.10-11.40: E3D data solutions, John White, NEIC
11.40-12.05: Current status of Japanese EISCAT_3D preparation, Yasunobu Ogawa, NIPR

12.05-13.15: Lunch break

13.15-13.35: Inter-Observatory Collaboration: Ground-Instrumentation Roadmap for EISCAT-3D, Thomas Ulich, SGO
13.35-13.55: Heating, ESR and the User Community, Thomas Ulich, SGO
13.55-14.20: The latest from Heating and prospects for the future, Mike Rietveld, EISCAT
14.20-14.45: LOFAR4SpaceWeather: Synergies with KAIRA, EISCAT, and EISCAT_3D, Richard Fallows, Astron

14.45-15.15: Coffee break

15.15-15.40: EISCAT_3D Performance Evaluation for Space Situational Awareness, Daniel Kastinen, IRF
15.40-16.05: Nanosateliites supporting the EISCAT_3D Science Case, Esa Turunen, SGO

16.05-16.25: The Swarm mission extension, Stephan Buchert, IRF
16.25-16.50: SDI-3D project: measurements of the thermosphere, Shin-ichiro Oyama, ISEE

May 9, Wednesday, 9.00-12.30:
Complementary Instruments, Special Topic, "Standard modes of operation, Common Programmes, and software packages for EISCAT and EISCAT_3D"

Location: Room 1111 in the ITC area (across the road from the Ångström Laboratory)

09.00-09.25: ALIS_4D a Swedish complementary instrument for EISCAT_3D, Urban Brändström, IRF
09.25-09.45: Optical NLC cameras for common volume studies of NLC and PMSE dynamics above
the Tromsø radar site, Peter Dalin, IRF
09.45-10.05: Advance Mesospheric Temperature Mapper (AMTM) is proposed to estimate the
mesopause temperature by observing hydroxyl (OH) airglow emissions, Peter Dalin, IRF
10.05-10.30: Latest developments in the EISCAT 3D data handling projects, Carl-Fredrik Enell, EISCAT

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-11.25: ELSPEC – a tool for electron energy spectrum estimation from EISCAT radar data, Ilkka Virtanen, Oulu University
11.25-11.45: Frame for a new IS core data analysis, Stephan Buchert, IRF
11.45-12.00: Next meetings, including the EISCAT symposium 2019, Thomas Ulich, Stephan Buchert et al.

Registration

The local organizer is Stephan Buchert. The deadline for Registration has passed, but for late registrations please email scb@irfu.se. Please let me know if you would like to have assistance for reserving accommodation.

Practical Information

The workshop will take place on the Polacksbacken campus of the Uppsala University, at the Information Technology Center (ITC), room number 1111 on both days. In 2013 the 5th E3D user meeting has also been in the ITC area, and the group photo shows in the background building "hus 1" where this years meeting location is. The ususal Ångströmlaboratory is being extended, with a risk for noise from the ongoing construction work. If needed, smaller meeting rooms for splinter sessions are available, also on Monday, May 7.

Accommodation in Uppsala is often difficult to find for the time of the workshop, we recomment that you book as soon as possible:

Information for visitors

EISCAT_3D, a short description

More information can be found at the E3D web site.

E3D is a planned next generation incoherent scatter radar facility, based on phased-array technology and multiple radar sites. The EISCAT_3D proposal was accepted on the ESFRI Roadmap of large-scale European research infrastructures in December 2008.

The EU, EISCAT, the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory (STFC, UK), the University of Tromsø (Norway), the Luleå Technical University (Sweden), and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Sweden) financed and undertook the EISCAT-3D design study. The results of the study were presented at the first E3D User Meeting 2009, and a final report has been published.

A four year long Preparatory Phase of E3D funded by the European Commission under the call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1 started on 1 October 2010. The Preparatory Phase work has been performed by a consortium consisting of 8 institutions: the EISCAT Scientific Association as the coordinator, University of Oulu, Finland, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden, University of Tromsø, Norway, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK, Swedish Research Council, Sweden, and National Instruments, Belgium.

Preparatory Phase actions were presented at User Meetings in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. A prominent outcome is the Science Case for a E3D facility which had been prepared within work package 3, Science planning and user engagement. It is also published here. The Preparatory Phase ended in September 2014. In the mean time the E3D proposal now foresees a staged approach, with stage 1 having a core site with transmitter and two receiving sites.

In October 2015 the Horizon 2020 project “EISCAT_3D: Preparation for Production” (EISCAT3D_PfP) had its kick-off, and it was active until August 2017. Results have been collected, and notably a test subarray was developed and built at the EISCAT site in Ramfjordmoen.

After an opening ceremony September 7, 2017, the final development and construction of E3D stage 1 has been going on, the first measurements for scientific use are expected to be possible in 2022.