RAS G-MIST Discussion Meeting
Twenty-Two Years of EISCAT: A Meeting in Memory of P.J.S.Williams
Society of Antiquaries Lecture Theatre, Burlington House
Friday 12th December 2003 Organizers:
Dr S Eleri Pryse (Aberystwyth:
sep@aber.ac.uk)
Summary: The first data were taken by the EISCAT incoherent scatter radar in the summer of 1981, and the first Common Programme experiments proper performed in September and October of the same year. The late Phil Williams was the Assistant (Scientific) Director at EISCAT when this groundbreaking moment occurred, and he was involved in the many exciting experiments that were to follow with the new facility. In his memory, this meeting will look back on those 22 years of excellence; at the continuing cutting-edge science the facility is still performing; and to the future of the radar with which he was so closely associated.
Schedule of talks |
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10:00 – 10:30 Registration and coffee |
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Morning Session - Chair A.D.Aylward |
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10:30 – 10:45 Introduction |
Alan D Aylward (UCL) |
10:45 - 11:15 EISCAT's contribution to Ionosphere-Thermosphere Physics |
Ian McCrea (RAL) |
11:15 – 11:45 EISCAT – The early days 1969-1984 |
Prof H Rishbeth (Southampton) |
11:45 - 12:15 Looking Upstream from the Earth - Interplanetary scintillation measurements of the solar wind using EISCAT[ abstract ] |
Andy Breen (UW Aberystwyth) |
12:15 – 13:00 Contributed talks |
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12:15 - 12:27 First alternate meteor and IS observations using t
he MU radar
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12:27 - 12:39 Footprints of magnetospheric processes: EISCAT and radio tomography
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12:39 - 12:51 Optical and radar observations of fine-structured aurora
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12:51 - 13:03 Tristatic neutral and ionospheric measurements
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LUNCH |
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Afternoon Session - Chair S.E.Pryse |
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14:00 – 14:30 EISCAT's contribution to Magnetospheric Physics |
Prof D Southwood (ESA) |
14:30 – 15:00 Present capabilites and future development |
Ingemar Haggstrom (EISCAT HQ) |
15:00 - 15:30 Contributed talks | |
15:00 - 15:15 Field-aligned currents revisited
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15:15 - 15:30 EISCAT observations of the spatial and temporal variability of the heater enhanced ion line
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15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea |
Dr A D Aylward |
Dr S Eleri Pryse |
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