IHY Science Planning

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IHY Science Planning

• Coordinated Investigation Programmes

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CIPs Introduction

• Main tool for coordinating IHY science
• Based on the SoHO Joint Observation Programme
  (JOP) model
• Investigation substituted for Observation to
  indicate that they need not be just observational
• Modelling and data collection activities are
  welcomed

• Open access
• Anyone can propose a CIP, whether they run the
  required facilities or not
• All CIP proposals are public
• Autonomy
• IHY facilitates activities but does not run them
• The proposer retains control

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CIPs Process
Three stages with IHY participation

• Proposal A researcher proposes a set of
  activities with specific science goals, requiring
  multiple resources not necessarily under his or
  her control.
• Coordination IHY Discipline Planners review the
  proposals to co-ordinate with other CIPs and to
  link the proposer with representatives for
  instruments, observatories, or models.
• Review A series of Universal Process Workshops
  will be held from late 2007 into 2008 the
  workshop planners will identify which CIPs should
  contribute to each workshop

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CIP Registration
Web form for registering CIP proposals http//ihy2
007.org.uk/CIP_form.shtm
Registered CIP proposals at http//ihy2007.org.uk/
CIP_list.shtm
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CIP Information requested

• Title
• Lead proposer name and contact details, other
  proposers
• Discipline
• Solar
• Heliospheric and cosmic rays
• Planetary magnetospheres
• Planetary Ionosphere / Thermosphere / Mesosphere
• Climate
• Other
• Can belong to multiple disciplines
• Scientific Synopsis
• Short summary of goals and questions

• Description of Programme
• Work proposed
• Schedule/timing constraints
• Special instrument modes
• Resources required
• Instruments, models
• Indication of whether access already agreed
• Wider programmes
• Links with other programmes e.g CAWSES, IPY,
  IYPE, eGY
• Educational Opportunities
• Developing Nations
• Capacity building a concern of IHY

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Current CIP proposals

• Coronal Mass Ejection Studies Development of
  Algorithms for CME Onset and Earth-Arrival
  Predictions (Richard Harrison, RAL)
• Realtime Global Ionosphere (Tim Fuller-Rowell,
  SEC)
• Universality of Auroral Structure (Marina Galand,
  Boston University)
• Global plasmaspheric dynamics (Ian Mann,
  University of Alberta)
• State of the LISM at the Heliopsheric Boundary
  and Inside (Eberhard Moebius, University of New
  Hampshire)
• Environment Termination Shock and the Heliosheath
  (Matthew E. Hill, University of Maryland)

• 3-D Structure of EUV CMEs in the inner corona
  (Barbara J. Thompson, NASA GSFC)
• Mid- and high latitude Ionospheric-Magnetospheric
  Observations (Pierre Cilliers, Hermanus Magnetic
  Observatory)
• Modeling variable cosmic ray fluxes in the
  dynamic heliosphere, magnetosphere, and
  atmosphere as well as their imprints on Earth
  (Klaus Scherer/Marius Potgieter, Ruhr
  Universitaet Bochum)
• Another 6 sketched out earlier in the year at a
  US IHY workshop will be registered shortly
• http//ihy2007.org.uk/CIP_list.shtm

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CIP Coordination

• CIPs classified by discipline
• Solar, Heliospheric and cosmic rays, Planetary
  magnetospheres, Planetary Ionosphere/Thermosphere/
  Mesosphere, Climate, Other
• Can belong to multiple disciplines
• Aim to have 10-20 CIPs to coordinate activities
  during IHY

• IHY Discipline Coordinators
• Review CIPs proposed for their discipline
• Overlapping interests
• Opportunities for cooperation
• Combine proposals if necessary
• Assist with gaining access to resources
• 2 or 3 per discipline
• Work with existing structures and processes for
  collaboration
• Have the power to cajole

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CIP Review

• Review workshops
• Planned to be held from late 2007 and in 2008
• Organised on the basis of Universal Processes
• Universal Processes
• Evolution and Generation of Magnetic Structures
  and Transients
• Energy Transfer and Coupling Processes
• Flows and Circulations
• Boundaries and Interfaces
• Synoptic Studies of the 3-D Coupled
  Solar-Planetary-Heliospheric System

• IHY Data repository
• Preserve (copies of) IHY data in dedicated
  repositories
• Data storage facilities currently offered by MIT
  in India and Ireland
• Use Grid/VO technologies to provide access?

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Benefits to CIP proposers

• Advertising
• Let others know what you are planning
• Coordination/Enabling
• Link with similar, related or complementary
  activities
• Access to expertise with unfamiliar
  instruments/models/science
• Review/Dissemination
• Inclusion in Universal Process Workshops
• Link with IHY Public Outreach activities
• Legacy
• Data in IHY repositories

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Next steps

• Complete recruiting of discipline coordinators
• A few volunteers so far (India, US?)
• Anyone takers from the UK?
• Register CIP proposals to reflect UK interests
• Components of the ICESTAR/IHY IPY programme are
  good candidates

• Individuals register themselves in the IHY
  Coordination Database (at ihy2007.org)
• Records interests of researchers
• Observatory Reps who can speak for a facility
  are especially valuable
• Provide search facilities on the CIP proposal
  database