The International Heliophysical Year IHY in Brazil

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The International Heliophysical Year (IHY) in
Brazil
Alisson Dal Lago1 and Walter D. Gonzalez1 1INPE -
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais /
National Institute for Space Research
IHY in Brazil
Brazilian Participating Institutions and
Spacecraft or Observatory

• IHY Brazilian activities are being planned and
  conducted in colaboration with Latin-American
  Institutions. For details, please visit the IHY
  Latin-American Website http//www.alage.org/IHYLA
  /ihyla.html

Many brazilian institutions have shown interest
in participating in the IHY activities. All of
them have provided information about their
instrumental facilities and contact person. A
list of Institutions and their information is
shown below.
Proposed CIPs

• Five Coordinated Investigation Programs (CIPs)
  have been proposed by scientists from brazilian
  institutions
• 13 - Jean-Pierre Raulin High Energy Processes
  and Dynamics of the Low Solar Atmosphere During
  Explosive Events         
• 14 - J.-P. Raulin, E. Correia, V.S. Makhmutov
  Ionospheric effects of the solar activity
  variations, solar flares, lightnings and
  energetic particle precipitations
• 16 - Luis Eduardo Antunes Vieira Investigation
  of the of the cosmic rays modulation of the cloud
  properties and net radiative flux in the southern
  hemisphere magnetic anomaly (SHMA) 
• 18 - Emília Correia  Spatial and temporal TEC
  characterization of the ionosphere in the South 
  Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly
• 37 - Walter D. Gonzalez Interplanetary causes of
  intense magnetic storms
• For further details, please visit our website
  http//www.alage.org/IHYLA/cip.html

IHY Brazilian activities

• Nov. 2005 Meeting at Mackenzie Institute, Sao
  Paulo
• organize information about Latin-American
  institutions/facilities in a homepage
  (http//www.alage.org/IHYLA/ihyla.html)
• CIPs proposed by Lat. American scientists
• July 2006 Adriana Silva from CRAAM/Mackenzie
  was invited to be the Brazilian Coordinator for
  Education and Public Outreach.
• Oct. 2006 Meeting at the Brazilian Symposium on
  Space Geophysics and Aeronomy for planning a
  IHY-LA Space Physics School in 2007.

For further details, please visit our website
http//www.alage.org/IHYLA/interested.html
WEBSITE http//www.alage.org/IHYLA/ihyla.html
IHY Inauguration Ceremony February 19, 2007