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Data group led by Jie Zhang (USA) and Christian Moestl (Austria)
 
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A brief summary of the activity of WG1 at the workshop can be found [http://solar.gmu.edu/wiki/presentations/moestl_2013_hvar_WG1_session_summary.pdf here]. <br>
  
 
=='''Scientific Objectives'''==
 
=='''Scientific Objectives'''==
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What are the criteria of Earth-affecting CMEs?
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===What are the criteria of Earth-affecting CMEs?===
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*ICME signatures: primarily based on the strength and duration of magnetic field, low temperature and low density using ACE data.
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**geo-effectiveness events will be a subset of the list (largely depending on the Bs)
 +
 
 +
===Definition and terminology of ICMEs?===
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*ICME includes entire transient interval, including the shock, shock sheath, ICME ejectum
 +
**ICME arrival time means the arrival of the shock and the disturbance (commonly used)
 +
**magnetic driver arrival time meas the arrival of the ejectum,  magnetic cloud (flux rope), magnetic-cloud-like (from modeling/understanding perspective)
 +
*** magnetic driver versus CME ejecta (how to choose the term?)
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*** paper by Alexis Rouillard (2011 JASTP) discussed the nomenclature
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 +
===What are the main CME parameters which can be derived from remote and in situ CME observations?===
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===How reliably can we link solar to in situ CME observations?===
  
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What are the main CME parameters which can be derived from remote and in situ CME observations?
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===How well can we forecast the ICME parameters from remote observations? Especially, the Bs===
  
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How reliably can we link solar to in situ CME observations?
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===What is the cause of "stealth" CMEs? ===
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*"stealth CME" means that a CME clearly in coronagraph images, but no apparent signatures in coronal disk images, i.e., no flare, no filament eruption, no dimming/wave
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*frontside CME may be mistaken as a backside CME; a space weather program for mis-alarming (true negative event)
  
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How well can we forecast the ICME parameters from remote observations?
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===What is the cause of "problematic" ICMEs?===
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*"Problematic ICMEs" mean that an ICME clearly shown up in in-situ, but there is no apparent front-side halo CME counterpart in the search window (five days)
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* "stealth CME" is a subset of "problematic ICME"
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* other problematic ICME candidates are extremely faint events in LASCO and SECCHI
  
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What is the cause of "stealth" CMEs, i.e., CMEs without clear surface signature?
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===Can we find names for all types of CMEs lacking signatures in any of the three datasets: disk, coronagraph, in situ?===
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a first try from Chris Moestl:
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there are 2^3=8 possible combinations: (no, no, no excluded; yes, yes, yes, is a "classic" CME), leaves 6:
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*stealth CME:                            disk (no), coronagraph (yes), in situ (yes)
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*stealth CME not arriving:        disk (no), coronagraph (yes), in situ (no): essentially a stealth CME which either does not arrive at or misses in situ
 +
*problematic ICME:                  disk (no?), coronagraph (no), in situ (yes)
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*??? another type of problematic ICME:                  disk (yes), coronagraph (no), in situ (yes): does this kind of event exist?
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*confined flare:                        disk (yes), coronagraph (no), in situ (no)
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*classic CME not arriving:        disk (yes), coronagraph (yes), in situ (no): essentially a classic CME which either does not arrive at or misses in situ
  
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What is the cause of "problematic" ICMEs, i.e., ICMEs without clear CME counterparts near the Sun?
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===Are there limb CMEs that arrive at the Earth (the driver)?===
  
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Can we find examples of front-side full halo CMEs in C2, but have no ICME signatures at 1 AU? Does this kind of event exist or not?
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=== Can CME cross the heliospheric current sheet? ===
  
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===Can we find examples of front-side full halo CMEs in C2, but have no ICME signatures at 1 AU? Does this kind of event exist or not?===
 +
*an issue for space weather false-alarming? reasons
 +
** deflection
 +
***location of coronal holes
 +
***effect of heliospheric current sheet
 +
 +
** rotation
 +
 +
** lack of Bs
 +
** may just disappear or "dissolve" (???)
 +
 +
===Interacting CMEs and ICMEs?===
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*what are the signatures?
 +
*how the evolution is affected?
 +
*how geo-effectiveness is affected?
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===''energetic particles''===
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=== Can we predict Bz and geomagnetic storm strength correctly for the July 12-14 2012 campaign event from a combination of observations, empirical modeling and simulations?===
 
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*use simulation results from WG3, insights from WG4
 
*use simulation results from WG3, insights from WG4
 
*e.g. interacting events, very fast or very slow CMEs, or other special properties
 
*e.g. interacting events, very fast or very slow CMEs, or other special properties
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#late July to early August 2010
 
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#February 2011
 
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#early March 2012
 
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#July 2012
 
  
 
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'''happy textbook event:'''
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*12-14 July 2012
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'''interesting event''': CME with very slowly erupting signatures (dimming, cavity); traveling in about 3 days from Sun to 1 AU (although low initial and low arrival speed); also caused a geomagnetic storm (Dst min around -100 nT)
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*5-8 Oct 2012
  
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== '''Techniques, Methodology''' ==
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nice interaction of 2 CMEs:
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*15-18 February 2011
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other more complicated event periods:
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*early March 2012
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*late July to early August 2010 (many analyses already published) <br/>
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*....
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== '''Methods''' ==
  
 
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===How to measure 3-D geometric and kinematic properties of CMEs in the corona, e.g., FOVs of COR1, COR2 and HI-1?===
 
===How to measure 3-D geometric and kinematic properties of CMEs in the corona, e.g., FOVs of COR1, COR2 and HI-1?===
 
*croissant modeling a la Thernisien et al. (software available in IDL SolarSoft: "rtsccguicloud")
 
*croissant modeling a la Thernisien et al. (software available in IDL SolarSoft: "rtsccguicloud")
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*....
 
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===How to measure 3-D geometric and kinematic properties of CMEs far from the Sun, e.g., FOVs of HI-2?===
 
===How to measure 3-D geometric and kinematic properties of CMEs far from the Sun, e.g., FOVs of HI-2?===
 
*Geometrical modeling, approximating the CME front with geometrical shapes (points, circles). The IDL SolarSoft SATPLOT software can be used to extract and model time-elongation tracks of CMEs from STEREO/COR2/HI1/HI2 Jmaps.
 
*Geometrical modeling, approximating the CME front with geometrical shapes (points, circles). The IDL SolarSoft SATPLOT software can be used to extract and model time-elongation tracks of CMEs from STEREO/COR2/HI1/HI2 Jmaps.
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*....
 
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===How to reconstruct the 3-D structure of ICMEs from in-situ observations?===
 
===How to reconstruct the 3-D structure of ICMEs from in-situ observations?===
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#force-free cylindrical flux ropes
 
#force-free cylindrical flux ropes
 
#new models?
 
#new models?
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*....
 
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=== How to measure the geomagnetic effects? ===
 
=== How to measure the geomagnetic effects? ===
  
 
*geomagnetic indices (Dst, Kp)
 
*geomagnetic indices (Dst, Kp)
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*....
 
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=='''Progress at workshop in Hvar June 2013'''==
 
=='''Progress at workshop in Hvar June 2013'''==
 
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===Goals for Hvar workshop===
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===WG1 tasks for Hvar workshop===
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*understand in detail the parameters derived from observations
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#'''verify the master list, clean the list''' (only events in 2012 left)
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*learn how to use the wiki: for discussions, and to upload and link data
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#discuss what parameters will be in the event list? who does what?
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*verify the master list, identify and discuss unclear events
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##how to determine the velocity? especially for the true 3-D velocity?
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##elongation angle to distance and velocity?
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##what is the acceleration profile of CMEs through the interplanetary space? (for theoretical analysis)
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##radio observation
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#identify special events: happy one and surprising ones (done, more?)
 +
#address the question of stealth CMEs, and problematic ICMEs (some identified)
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#ask WG2/3 for inputs on "focus events" (!)
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=== WG1 + WG4 ===
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*happy event: July 12 - 14, 2012
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*"stealth" event: Oct. 5 - 8, 2012
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=== WG1 Presentations at the Hvar Workshop 2013 ===
 
=== WG1 Presentations at the Hvar Workshop 2013 ===
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All presentations from the workshop can be found at [[ISEST Presentations]]
 
*Ewa Chmielewska: Solar eruptions observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory
 
*Ewa Chmielewska: Solar eruptions observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory
 
*Yuming Wang: Do we need to correct projection effect for halo CMEs in terms of space weather forecasting?
 
*Yuming Wang: Do we need to correct projection effect for halo CMEs in terms of space weather forecasting?
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==Future Plan==
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=='''Future Plan and Action Items'''==
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===populate the event data (platform)===
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*list of SEPs at Earth, triangulation analysis and SEP intensity (Alexis Rouillard)
 +
*SEP data and injection times, protons and electrons (Allawi Herez Habeeb)
 +
*in situ electron pitch angles (Benoit Lavraud)
 +
*in situ composition data (Luciano Rodriguez)
 +
*SDO/AIA observations including automatic detection of EUV waves and dimmings (Nariaki Nitta, Ewa Chmielewska, Andy Devos)
 +
*STEREO EUVI/COR1 (Nariaki Nitta)
 +
*energetic electrons (Nariaki Nitta)
 +
*HI geometrical modeling (Christian Moestl)
 +
*COR1/COR2/HI1/HI2 data measurements and modeling (Jie Zhang and Philipp Hess)
 +
*PROBA-2 EUV images (Andy Devos)
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*Halpha for filaments (Manuela Temmer, Hvar group, Ewa Chmielewska)
 +
*ice cream cone model with LASCO (Chenglong Shen)
 +
*soft X-rays GOES SXI, Hinode XRT (Nariaki Nitta)
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*radio data (?)
 +
*magnetograms SDO/HMI (Jie Zhang)
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*coronal field modeling, GONG, Wilcox coronal neutral lines (?)
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*PFSS model by Marc DeRosa? (Nariaki Nitta)
 +
*add pressure (in situ data) to possibly over-expanding events (?)
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*........
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'''short term goals (upcoming months):'''
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'''by August 31 2013 provide all data for the 2 campaign events:'''
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*discussions on the two chosen events (12-14 July 2012, 4-8 October 2012) -> on the "Event Data" page of each event (all groups)
 +
*start using text files of simulation group (synthetic in situ and height-time data)
 +
*establish connection to MiniMax24
 +
 
 +
'''long term goals (until next workshop):'''
 +
'''by October 2014:'''
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*add new events to the "Event Data" list (all groups)
 +
*provide data on all events in "Event Data" (all groups)- inputs for WG2/3 on source CME: width, speed, direction
 +
*what are the scientific questions participants want to tackle with the full event list, and the focus events?
 +
*identify all "stealth" (silent) CMEs?
 +
 
 +
===remaining questions (forum)===
 +
 
 +
*email updates (monthly)
 +
*skype telecons (audio only) as necessary and/or every 6 months checking the action items
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*1st telecon: december 2013 (at least working group leaders)
 +
*contact persons which could provide additional, needed inputs

Latest revision as of 14:00, 24 June 2013

Data group led by Jie Zhang (USA) and Christian Moestl (Austria)

A brief summary of the activity of WG1 at the workshop can be found here.

Contents

Scientific Objectives


  • Identify all Earth-Affecting ICMEs during the STEREO era (2007-today)
  • Track these events from the Sun to the Earth, and fully measure, characterize and quantify their properties and evolution from the Sun to the Earth
  • Provide a comprehensive event database for statistical study, for creating empirical evolution and prediction models, for theoretical understanding, and for comparing and validating numerical models


Scientific Questions


What are the criteria of Earth-affecting CMEs?

  • ICME signatures: primarily based on the strength and duration of magnetic field, low temperature and low density using ACE data.
    • geo-effectiveness events will be a subset of the list (largely depending on the Bs)

Definition and terminology of ICMEs?

  • ICME includes entire transient interval, including the shock, shock sheath, ICME ejectum
    • ICME arrival time means the arrival of the shock and the disturbance (commonly used)
    • magnetic driver arrival time meas the arrival of the ejectum, magnetic cloud (flux rope), magnetic-cloud-like (from modeling/understanding perspective)
      • magnetic driver versus CME ejecta (how to choose the term?)
      • paper by Alexis Rouillard (2011 JASTP) discussed the nomenclature

What are the main CME parameters which can be derived from remote and in situ CME observations?

How reliably can we link solar to in situ CME observations?

How well can we forecast the ICME parameters from remote observations? Especially, the Bs

What is the cause of "stealth" CMEs?

  • "stealth CME" means that a CME clearly in coronagraph images, but no apparent signatures in coronal disk images, i.e., no flare, no filament eruption, no dimming/wave
  • frontside CME may be mistaken as a backside CME; a space weather program for mis-alarming (true negative event)

What is the cause of "problematic" ICMEs?

  • "Problematic ICMEs" mean that an ICME clearly shown up in in-situ, but there is no apparent front-side halo CME counterpart in the search window (five days)
  • "stealth CME" is a subset of "problematic ICME"
  • other problematic ICME candidates are extremely faint events in LASCO and SECCHI

Can we find names for all types of CMEs lacking signatures in any of the three datasets: disk, coronagraph, in situ?

a first try from Chris Moestl: there are 2^3=8 possible combinations: (no, no, no excluded; yes, yes, yes, is a "classic" CME), leaves 6:

  • stealth CME: disk (no), coronagraph (yes), in situ (yes)
  • stealth CME not arriving: disk (no), coronagraph (yes), in situ (no): essentially a stealth CME which either does not arrive at or misses in situ
  • problematic ICME: disk (no?), coronagraph (no), in situ (yes)
  • ??? another type of problematic ICME: disk (yes), coronagraph (no), in situ (yes): does this kind of event exist?
  • confined flare: disk (yes), coronagraph (no), in situ (no)
  • classic CME not arriving: disk (yes), coronagraph (yes), in situ (no): essentially a classic CME which either does not arrive at or misses in situ

Are there limb CMEs that arrive at the Earth (the driver)?

Can CME cross the heliospheric current sheet?

Can we find examples of front-side full halo CMEs in C2, but have no ICME signatures at 1 AU? Does this kind of event exist or not?

  • an issue for space weather false-alarming? reasons
    • deflection
      • location of coronal holes
      • effect of heliospheric current sheet
    • rotation
    • lack of Bs
    • may just disappear or "dissolve" (???)

Interacting CMEs and ICMEs?

  • what are the signatures?
  • how the evolution is affected?
  • how geo-effectiveness is affected?


energetic particles

Can we predict Bz and geomagnetic storm strength correctly for the July 12-14 2012 campaign event from a combination of observations, empirical modeling and simulations?


Special Events (with WG3 simulation and WG4 campaign events)


What are event periods which need special attention for linking solar to in situ observations?

  • use simulation results from WG3, insights from WG4
  • e.g. interacting events, very fast or very slow CMEs, or other special properties


happy textbook event:

  • 12-14 July 2012

interesting event: CME with very slowly erupting signatures (dimming, cavity); traveling in about 3 days from Sun to 1 AU (although low initial and low arrival speed); also caused a geomagnetic storm (Dst min around -100 nT)

  • 5-8 Oct 2012


nice interaction of 2 CMEs:

  • 15-18 February 2011

other more complicated event periods:

  • early March 2012
  • late July to early August 2010 (many analyses already published)
  • ....

Methods


How to measure 3-D geometric and kinematic properties of CMEs in the corona, e.g., FOVs of COR1, COR2 and HI-1?

  • croissant modeling a la Thernisien et al. (software available in IDL SolarSoft: "rtsccguicloud")
  • ....


How to measure 3-D geometric and kinematic properties of CMEs far from the Sun, e.g., FOVs of HI-2?

  • Geometrical modeling, approximating the CME front with geometrical shapes (points, circles). The IDL SolarSoft SATPLOT software can be used to extract and model time-elongation tracks of CMEs from STEREO/COR2/HI1/HI2 Jmaps.
  • ....


How to reconstruct the 3-D structure of ICMEs from in-situ observations?

  • shock analysis
  • sizes of sheath regions, magnetic clouds
  • categorization of magnetic structures into magnetic clouds, magnetic flux ropes, magnetic cloud-like, ejecta, complex ejecta
  • flux rope modeling:
  1. minimum variance analysis
  2. Grad-Shafranov method (non-force-free)
  3. force-free cylindrical flux ropes
  4. new models?
  • ....


How to measure the geomagnetic effects?

  • geomagnetic indices (Dst, Kp)
  • ....


Progress at workshop in Hvar June 2013


WG1 tasks for Hvar workshop

  1. verify the master list, clean the list (only events in 2012 left)
  2. discuss what parameters will be in the event list? who does what?
    1. how to determine the velocity? especially for the true 3-D velocity?
    2. elongation angle to distance and velocity?
    3. what is the acceleration profile of CMEs through the interplanetary space? (for theoretical analysis)
    4. radio observation
  3. identify special events: happy one and surprising ones (done, more?)
  4. address the question of stealth CMEs, and problematic ICMEs (some identified)
  5. ask WG2/3 for inputs on "focus events" (!)


WG1 + WG4

  • happy event: July 12 - 14, 2012
  • "stealth" event: Oct. 5 - 8, 2012

WG1 Presentations at the Hvar Workshop 2013

All presentations from the workshop can be found at ISEST Presentations

  • Ewa Chmielewska: Solar eruptions observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory
  • Yuming Wang: Do we need to correct projection effect for halo CMEs in terms of space weather forecasting?
  • Philippe Lamy: ARTEMIS II: A Second Generation Catalog of LASCO Coronal Mass Ejections
  • Li Feng: Reconstruct the 3D CME morphology with a mask-fitting method
  • Manuela Temmer: Interaction process of the CME-CME event from February 14-15, 2011 
  • Chenglong Shen: Deflected propagation of the 2008 September 13 CME in the heliosphere
  • Christian Moestl: Connecting remote to in situ observations of 22 coronal mass ejections from the Sun to 1 AU
  • Alexis Ruffenach: Statistical analysis of magnetic cloud erosion by magnetic reconnection
  • Nadya Nikolaeva: Magnetic storm generation by various types of solar wind: event catalog, modeling and prediction


Future Plan and Action Items

populate the event data (platform)

  • list of SEPs at Earth, triangulation analysis and SEP intensity (Alexis Rouillard)
  • SEP data and injection times, protons and electrons (Allawi Herez Habeeb)
  • in situ electron pitch angles (Benoit Lavraud)
  • in situ composition data (Luciano Rodriguez)
  • SDO/AIA observations including automatic detection of EUV waves and dimmings (Nariaki Nitta, Ewa Chmielewska, Andy Devos)
  • STEREO EUVI/COR1 (Nariaki Nitta)
  • energetic electrons (Nariaki Nitta)
  • HI geometrical modeling (Christian Moestl)
  • COR1/COR2/HI1/HI2 data measurements and modeling (Jie Zhang and Philipp Hess)
  • PROBA-2 EUV images (Andy Devos)
  • Halpha for filaments (Manuela Temmer, Hvar group, Ewa Chmielewska)
  • ice cream cone model with LASCO (Chenglong Shen)
  • soft X-rays GOES SXI, Hinode XRT (Nariaki Nitta)
  • radio data (?)
  • magnetograms SDO/HMI (Jie Zhang)
  • coronal field modeling, GONG, Wilcox coronal neutral lines (?)
  • PFSS model by Marc DeRosa? (Nariaki Nitta)
  • add pressure (in situ data) to possibly over-expanding events (?)
  • ........


short term goals (upcoming months): by August 31 2013 provide all data for the 2 campaign events:

  • discussions on the two chosen events (12-14 July 2012, 4-8 October 2012) -> on the "Event Data" page of each event (all groups)
  • start using text files of simulation group (synthetic in situ and height-time data)
  • establish connection to MiniMax24

long term goals (until next workshop): by October 2014:

  • add new events to the "Event Data" list (all groups)
  • provide data on all events in "Event Data" (all groups)- inputs for WG2/3 on source CME: width, speed, direction
  • what are the scientific questions participants want to tackle with the full event list, and the focus events?
  • identify all "stealth" (silent) CMEs?

remaining questions (forum)

  • email updates (monthly)
  • skype telecons (audio only) as necessary and/or every 6 months checking the action items
  • 1st telecon: december 2013 (at least working group leaders)
  • contact persons which could provide additional, needed inputs
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