Joint Space Weather Summer Camp Program

Joint Space Weather Summer Camp Program July 22 - August 18, 2013 The University of Alabama in Huntsville German Aerospace Center (DLR) The University of Rostock Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 1 Table of Contents Welcome……………………………………………………………………………..4 Schedules Schedule in Huntsville………………………………………………………..5 Schedule in Neustrelitz……………………………………………………….7 Space Weather Summer Camp in Huntsville Abstracts……………………………………………………………………..10 Project Work…………………………………………………………………23 Space Weather Summer Camp in Neustrelitz Abstracts……………………………………………………………………..25 Project Work…………………………………………………………………37 Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 2 Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 3 Welcome to the Joint Space Weather Summer Camp 2013 The Joint Space Weather Summer Camp is a partnership between UAHuntsville, the DLR and the University of Rostock. Because of the considerable historical ties between Huntsville and the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern (Germany) in the development of rockets, missiles, and eventually manned space flight, the Joint Space Weather Summer Camp was created to forge ties and develop communication between these two regions that have had such an impact on the 20th century. During the 4 week series of lectures, hands-on projects, experiments, and excursions you will be given an understanding of both the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of Space Weather and solar and space physics. During the first two weeks in Huntsville, we begin by focusing on the Sun as the primary cause of space weather in the entire solar system, and discuss fundamental processes in plasma physics, the solar wind and the interaction processes between the solar wind and Earth’s upper atmosphere.There will also be the opportunity to participate in either data or practical-based project work, enabling you to gain a practical understanding of the top- ics that will be discussed in the lectures both in Huntsville and in Germany. During the last two weeks in Northern Germany we will focus on the upper atmosphere and ionosphere.Besides the lectures there will also be practical project work and we will visit the University of Rostock and the Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics e.V. at the University of Rostoc i hlu sbor . The Joint Space Weather Summer Camp is much more than just lectures, projects and experiments. It also provides a wonderful opportunity for cultural exchanges between the US and Germany in an academic setting. The visit of the ‘Historical Tech ical Museum i ee em de’ i the Northeast of Germa y or the visit of the US Space a d Roc et Center in Huntsville, USA, are just two further examples of a program that goes beyond. We hope that the Joint Space Weather Summer Camp will be an interesting introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of Space Weather combined with a cultural ex- change between the US and Germany! The Joint Space Weather Summer Camp 2013 Committee Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 4 Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 5 Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 6 Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 7 Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 8 Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 9 Joint Space Weather Summer Camp July 22 – August 3, 2013 in Huntsville Monday, July 22 Modeling of Magnetic Non-Potentiality of an Active Region Using a Three-Dimensional, Data Driven Active _____________________________ Region Evolution Model Universal Basic Processes S. T. Wu in Plasma Physics CS R The U iversity of labama i Hu tsville Jakobus LeRoux CSPAR, O e of the major i teresti problems for The University of Alabama in Huntsville space weather forecasti is to have the capa- bility of predicti solar eruptive eve ts. To The basic description of a plasma system will achieve this oal, we must i vesti ate the evo- be introduced, starting from a kinetic descrip- lutio of a ctive Re io . this prese ta- tion and culminating in the magnetohydrody- tio , we will prese t a a alysis of ma etic namic (MHD) description. On the basis of field structures of the productive R10720 of both kinetic and MHD models, we will dis- Ja uary 15, 2005 ND R11283 of Septem- cuss the following four universal plasma phys- ber 6, 2011 usi a data-drive 3D MHD ical processes at an introductory level: model. The measured ma etic field from Bi Bear Solar Observatory BBSO di ital 1) Small amplitude waves and fluctua- vector ma eto ram DGVM for R 10720 tions in a plasma; a d the SDO/HM measureme ts for R 11283 are used to model the o -pote tial 2) Nonlinear behavior of fluctuations and ma etic field cha es. The umerical results dissipation and MHD turbulence; i clude the cha e of ma etic flux, the et electric curre t, the le th of ma etic shear 3) Shock waves, considering both a basic MHD description and a more refined of the mai eutral li e, a d the flux ormal- kinetic description; ized measure of the field twist. From these results we fou d the above four o -pote tial 4) Reconnection, described by MHD and ma etic parameters i crease a d decrease the important role of kinetic processes. before a d after solar eruptio . other words, these four parameters are ecessary The important process of particle acceleration co ditio s for solar eruptio . The we reveal at shock waves is relegated to a separate a particular feature: “the fra me ted stro presentation. shear alo the eutral li e”. This feature could be i terpreted as the variability of the shear a le a le betwee the observed a d Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp 10 pote tial horizo tal field alo the eutral lation and an enhanced turbulence level at the li e. t may be a additio al co ditio for front of the second shock than the case of a eruptio . This su ests that the active re io single CME-driven shock. Therefore, a more probability of produci a eruptio is ot efficient particle acceleration will occur. In the o ly depe de t o active re io free e er y context of the "twin-CME" scenario, I will but also o the variability of the shear a le discuss in detail, an examination of the single which appears to correspo d to the fra me t- GLE event in solar cycle 24, the May 17 2012 ed stro shear alo the eutral li e. event. I will also discuss some statistical studies of other large SEP events in solar cycle 23. Particle Acceleration in Large SEP Events-modeling extreme SEP events Tuesday, July 23 Gang Li _____________________________ CSPAR, The University of Alabama in Huntsville In extreme Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Cosmic Rays thoughout the Heliosphere events, such as GLE events, protons are often Vladimir Florinski accelerated to GeV/nucleon. Understanding CSPAR, the underlying particle acceleration mecha- nism in these events is a major goal for space The University of Alabama in Huntsville weather/climate studies. In Solar Cycle 23, a total of 16 GLEs have This year marks a one hundred and first anni- been identified. Most of them have preceding versary of the discovery of cosmic ionizing CMEs and in-situ energetic particle observa- radiation. Initially though to be gamma-rays tions show some of them are enhanced in IC- (hence the name), cosmic rays turned out to be ME or flare-like material. Motivated by this energetic charged particles (atomic nuclei and observation, we proposed a "twin-CME" sce- electrons) that permeate the Galaxy. Because nario for GLE events. In this scenario, two of their large Larmor radius, cosmic rays are CMEs erupt in sequence during a short period capable of entering the heliosphere and are of time from the same Active Region (AR) routinely detected on Earth and in interplane- with a pseudo-streamer-like pre-eruption tary space. They are a valuable tool to learn about the properties of the plasma in those magnetic field configuration. The first CME is narrower and slower and the parts of the solar system that are too distant to second CME is wider and faster. We show be directly explored by spacecraft. This tutori- that the magnetic field configuration in our al is an introduction to the physics of low en- proposed scenario can lead to magnetic recon- ergy cosmic-ray transport within our solar nection between the open and closed field system, including the solar wind and the heli- lines that drape and enclose the first CME and osheath. I will introduce the famous Parker its driven shock. The combined effect of the equation that describes the process of cosmic- presence of the first shock and the existence of ray diffusion in turbulent space plasmas. Sim- the open close reconnection is that when the ple applications of Parker equation to cosmic second CME erupts and drives a second ray transport in the expanding solar wind will be discussed. I will also give an update on the Joint WeatherSpace Summer Camp shock, one finds both an excess of seed popu- 11 latest results from the Voyager mission that physical and mathematical, for energetic par- may have recently crossed the boundary of the ticles propagating in a magnetically turbulent solar system. environment will be presented. The interaction of cosmic rays with expanding flows such as the solar wind will be discussed briefly. The main focus of the lecture will be on the appli- cation of the basic description of energetic The Origin of the Fast and particle scattering and transport at a shock Slow Solar Wind wave. We will show that particles can be accelerated at a shock wave via the process of diffusive shock acceleration and that quite Gary P. Zank remarkably a power law distribution in mo- CSPAR mentum independent of the details of the dif- The University of Alabama in Huntsville fusive scattering emerges.

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