The COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop at Mekelle University in Ethiopia
Abstract
This talk summarizes the experience in organizing the COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop "Coronal and Interplanetary Shocks: Analysis of Data from SOHO, Wind, and e-CALLISTO" in Mekelle University, Ethiopia. The main objective of the COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshops is to encourage the scientific use of space data by scientists in developing countries. In particular, in view of the large number of extensive archives of data from past and current space missions, and the ready access to these and the associated analysis software via the internet, the typical workshop aims to provide a highly practical training in the use of one or more of these, based on current missions. In line with this objective, a two-week workshop introduces data analysis of space-based white-light coronagraph observations and radio spectral observations from space and ground to study shocks driven by coronal mass ejections. In particular, the wealth of data accumulated at the CDAW Data Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), NASA's Wind and Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) missions are used. In addition, ground based radio data from the e-CALLISTO network and the Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN) around the globe are used for the study. Context information from NOAA's GOES mission and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) missions are also used. This workshop enables scientists and students in developing countries where the e- CALLISTO instruments are deployed to use their data in conjunction with space data to study Earth- affecting solar transient phenomena.
- Publication:
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42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018cosp...42E1251G