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International Workshop on Monitoring Geospace Disturbances from the Ground (2024 IMCP)

February 19, 2024

International Workshop on Monitoring Geospace Disturbances from the Ground: Scientific Challenges, Observational Networks, and International Collaboration

Understanding the fundamental geospace processes that shape our solar-terrestrial environment, encompassing the entangled coupling of magnetosphere, ionosphere, upper atmosphere, lower atmosphere and Solid Earth, is a crucial scientific challenge for the world space weather community and has major societal impacts. To properly address the scientific challenge and make progress on space weather specification and forecast capabilities, the development and synergistic uses of ground-based geospace monitoring, space-borne observations and sophisticated modeling tools is mandatory. With major space missions such as SMILE, GDC, and DYNAMIC targeting global geospace system science on the horizon, coordinated operation of world-wide ground-based observation networks over long periods will be critical to study the diverse multi-scale, multi-regions coupling processes impacting geospace at temporal scales ranging from minutes to decades and even longer.

Workshop Objectives

The main objective of the workshop is to advocate the unique contributions of ground-based observations and the particular significance of global and regional collaboration in addressing the broad challenge of monitoring and understanding geospace. The workshop will serve as an ideal platform to (1) showcase interdisciplinary discoveries and new progress, and (2) promote discussions aimed at enhancing observational effectiveness through organized networks for ground-based observational coordination. An illustrative example of global collaborative network is the International Meridian Circle Program (IMCP). IMCP focuses on ground-based observations and geospace research along the Great Meridian Circles spanning 120°E/60°W longitudes as well as 30°E/150°W longitudes. The dozens of new observational facilities within the Chinese sectors, for example, constitute a cornerstone of the IMCP in the eastern hemisphere.

Scientific Program

The scientific program of the workshop, which will take place during the peak of the present solar cycle, will cover the broad spectrum of fundamental processes which cause in an intricately way the variability of our space environment: solar and geomagnetic activities, geospace coupling, atmospheric weather and global climate change, earth magnetic field variations, and solid earth hazards. Its open format will facilitate in-depth discussions on the sources of geospace variability, relevant modeling of geospace-atmosphere-lithosphere system, and data science. It will also stimulate the emergence of new ideas for instrumentation and international coordination using IMCP and other networks, while fostering synergy between space missions and ground facilities.

A great venue at a symbolic time

Scheduled for the week of 23-27 September 2024, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the workshop will coincide with the 63rd anniversary of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the 10th anniversary of the China-Brazil Joint Laboratory for Space Weather. This venue, symbolizing the spirit of collaboration and excellence in space weather research, will be well suited for the international community to engage in discussions about advancing geospace science and monitoring through collaboration.

We look forward to welcoming you to Sao Paulo's amazing spring!

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs 

Chi Wang, National Space Science Center (NSSC), Chinese Academy Sciences, China 
Clezio De Nardin, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Shun-Rong Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA 
Michel Blanc, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France

Local Organizing Committee and Contact Information

Liwen Ren (lwren@spaceweather.ac.cn)
Patrícia Leite (patricia.leite@inpe.br)
Sheila Huang (sheila.huang@nssc.ac.cn)
Zhengkuan Liu (liuzhengkuan@nssc.ac.cn)