Dear EISCAT community,
The Experiment request on old portal page was closed yesterday
afternoon. In the next days we might need to also disable the download
of L2 data from the present portal. For access to L3 data please refer
to our Madrigal webpage: https://madrigal.eiscat.se/
I will inform you once the data download and later the campaign request
through the new portal will become available.
Meanwhile please make sure that you are a member of EISCAT Virtual
Organisation. Without being a member in proper groups you will not be
able to access data or request campaigns after the change. Information
with links where to apply is available for download here:
https://cloud.eiscat.se/s/WjQCxQbxkBoNCLe
If you didn't use EGI checkin services yet, you will be asked to
register as a member of EGI community first. It is better to make this
step separately before at https://aai.egi.eu/signup
If you are not a member of EISCAT VO yet and you are applying for a
specific associate group you will be asked to submit two applications
when using the link. So please follow through the whole form. You need
to receive two confirmation emails from perun to be both general member
(first, automatic) and part of the group (second, manually revised) .
Please remember to always use the same account for identification.
(Institutional accounts or ORCID are preferred.)
If you are already member of EISCAT VO you can always check your
membership in groups and information in the VO by signing in to
https://perun.egi.eu/
Mária
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Mária Miháliková, PhD
Staff Scientist, EISCAT
Bengt Hultqvists väg 1, 981 92 Kiruna, Sweden
Work phone: +46 (0)72 5813347
e-mail: maria.mihalikova(a)eiscat.se
The Department of Physics at Umeå University, Sweden, offers a PhD
position in space physics.
The position is on the study of the transport of heavy ions in Earth’s
magnetotail, using observed data from the ESA Cluster and the NASA MMS
multi-spacecraft missions.
The PhD project will be conducted in close collaboration with scientists
from the University of Colorado (Boulder, USA), Southwest Research
Institute (San Antonio, USA), University of New Hampshire (USA),
Shandong University (Weihai, China), Austrian Academy of Science (Graz,
Austria), and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Kiruna, Sweden).
The project is financed by the Swedish Research Council.
Last day to apply is February 16, 2025. Starting date is September 1,
2025, or by agreement.
For more information about the position and how to apply please visit:
_https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/phd-position-in-experimental-physics-with-focus-on-space-physics-_778944/_
For further information contact the Principal Investigator of the
project, Associate professor Maria Hamrin,
_maria.ham__ri__n(a)space.umu.se_ <mailto:maria.hamrin@space.umu.se>
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/Maria
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Maria Hamrin Email:maria.hamrin@space.umu.se
Associate Professor Phone: +46 (0)70 325 80 38
Docent in space physics
Department of Physics
Umeå University
Linnaeus väg 24, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
https://www.umu.se/personal/maria-hamrin/https://www.umu.se/en/research/groups/space-plasma-physics-group/
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Dear EISCAT community,
We are getting ready to make changes on our portal.eiscat.se webpage.
They will be done in several steps starting today and continuing over
the Christmas and New Year period.
As the first step we will disable location-based download from our
present portal page today. To be able to download data and later to use
our portal pages we are asking you to register in the EISCAT Virtual
Organisation. Information with links where to apply is attached here but
also can be found and downloaded: https://cloud.eiscat.se/s/WjQCxQbxkBoNCLe
If you are not a member of EISCAT VO yet and you are applying for a
specific associate group you will be asked to submit two applications
when using the link. So please follow through the whole form. If you
didn't use EGI checkin services yet, you will be asked to register as a
member of EGI community first. It is better to make this step separately
before at https://aai.egi.eu/signup
Please remember to always use the same account for identification.
(Institutional accounts or ORCID are preferred.)
First application for general membership (download of public data) is
approved automatically. The application for your specific group has to
be approved by the group manager, as each Associate manages their groups
independently of EISCAT, and thus in some cases it can take up to
several days until it gets approved. You should receive automatic emails
from the EISCAT VO on the perun system once each of these applications
is approved.
For the next step we will disable experiment request submission next
week (on 11th of December) once the submissions for January are closed.
The changes on the portal entail also a revamp of the campaign request
submission system. To be able to submit requests on the new portal pages
you have to be member of a request subgroup. Membership in this subgroup
depends on the rules of your associate and has to be communicated with
your individual managers.
The plan is to change the webpage in a suitable timeslot just before
Christmas depending also on the staff availability. We will try to
change the pages as smoothly as possible but we expect there will be
outages in accessibility of the portal page over the Christmas and New
Year period. The submission of campaign requests for February will be
open once we are sure with the new page. I will inform you about the
progress of the changes and resuming of the service through this mailing
list.
Mária
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Mária Miháliková, PhD
Staff Scientist, EISCAT
Bengt Hultqvists väg 1, 981 92 Kiruna, Sweden
Work phone: +46 (0)72 5813347
e-mail: maria.mihalikova(a)eiscat.se
Dear friends of E3D,
a preliminary programme for 18th E3D user meeting on Dec
3-4, 2024 is online. Please find more information at
https://www.space.irfu.se/workshops/EISCAT-3D_User2024-2/
Presentations include
* Transition to EISCAT AB: current status (by Viktoria Mattson, VR)
! Wednesday, Dec 4, 8:30 - 9:00 CET
* EISCAT/E3D status update
and topics around
* E3D data analyisis
* related science
and more depending on your input and contributions..
It is not too late, the link for registration is
https://forms.gle/YqvFg7aEogjmDtzQ6
Also to get just the Zoom link by email, pse register!
Best regards,
Stephan Buchert and Thomas Ulich
Dr. Stephan Buchert
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Box 537, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
Mob +46-708566324
Tel +46-18-471 5928
Dear friends of E3D,
a 18th E3D user meeting will take place hybrid in Kiruna IRF/Online Dec
3-4, 2024. Please find more information at
https://www.space.irfu.se/workshops/EISCAT-3D_User2024-2/
Preliminary subjects of presentations/discussions are
* E3D data analyisis
* 1st experiments
* Common Programmes
* Visualization and
more depending on your input and contributions..
The registration link is
https://forms.gle/YqvFg7aEogjmDtzQ6
Best regards,
Stephan Buchert and Thomas Ulich
Dr. Stephan Buchert
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Box 537, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
Mob +46-708566324
Tel +46-18-471 5928
Hi,
If you are a user of the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) and use the daily updated index files provided by the University of New Brunswick and the IRI Working Group (https://chain-new.chain-project.net/echaim_downloads/ig_rz.dat and https://chain-new.chain-project.net/echaim_downloads/apf107.dat) please be aware that a hardcoded limit in versions of the IRI from before December 2023 will result in the model crashing if used with the provided updated index files after October 31st. We encourage all users of the IRI to update to the latest version of the model to avoid interuption and to ensure continued use of the model after October 2024.
If you use an older version of the IRI, a truncated index file is provided here: https://chain-new.chain-project.net/echaim_downloads/capped/ig_rz.dat This file will not include dates after October 2024, as such older versions of the IRI will not crash with this file, but they will not be able to be used for dates beyond October 2024.
If you use an older version of IRI2020, IRI2016, or IRI2012 but cannot update to the latest version and still need to run for dates after October 2024, a stopgap fix can be enacted as follows:
In the read_ig_rz subroutine within your version of irifun.for, replace the real variable declaration with the following:
real aig(1600),arz(1600)
and in the tcon subroutine within your version of irifun.for, replace the real variable declaration with the following:
real ionoindx(1600),indrz(1600)
real ig(3),rz(3)
In versions of the IRI prior to December 2023, these variables are set to 806 elements which needs to be increased, here to 1600 elements. You should also implement a fix to the real(12,*) declarations in read_ig_rz subroutine within irifun.for with the following:
read(12,*) iupm,iupd,iupy
read(12,*) imst,iyst,imend,iyend
I do not guarantee that these changes will work for all older versions of the IRI and still recommend that all users update to the latest version, but if you recompile with these changes it should make it so that you can use those older versions of the model with the new index files.
If you use IRI2007, the ig_rz.dat file for that version is formatted differently and the new index files would not work regardless.
If you have any questions, please reach out to me or the IRI Working Group.
Cheers,
David Themens
We are looking for two Doctoral Researchers and one Postdoctoral Researcher to work in the Ionospheric Physics research group in the Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit (https://www.oulu.fi/en/university/faculties-and-units/faculty-science/space…) at University of Oulu, Finland.
The two 3-year Doctoral researcher and one 4-year Postdoctoral researcher positions are open in the project “Polar upper atmosphere and space environment studied with the EISCAT3D radar and other cutting-edge instruments (POLAR)”. The project studies the effects of solar storms on the ionosphere-thermosphere system and the resulting phenomena such as Joule heating, atmospheric expansion and precipitating auroral particles. The project PI is Prof. Anita Aikio, and co-PIs are Dr. Heikki Vanhamäki and Dr. Ilkka Virtanen.
The application deadline is November 17, 2024. The full call text and application instructions are given in:
https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:764533/
Contact information: anita.aikio(a)oulu.fi
EISCAT Peer-Review Programme: Open Call for Applications
(sorry for any cross-posting)
The EISCAT Scientific Association invites applications for *observing
time on the EISCAT facilities in 2025*, by individual scientists,
research groups, and consortia*throughout the world on equal,
competitive basis*. This means that anyone can apply, independent of
whether or not the applicant is from an EISCAT associate country.
The present call is the first one for 2025. In total, *200 hours(*) of
experiment time* are open for international, peer-reviewed competition,
and are available for the use of any of the current EISCAT facilities.
Roughly half of this time is allocated in each call.
Please refer for more information and instructions how to apply to:
https://eiscat.se/scientist/schedule/eiscat-peer-reviewed-program/
The deadline for applications is *1 November 2024 at 24:00 UTC*.
*EISCAT Scientific Association is presently undergoing organisational
changes. The present programme is at the moment envisioned to continue
without changes but the programme itself or the usage/availability of
the awarded hours can be subject to change as a result of restructuring
of the organisation.
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Maria Mihalikova, PhD
Staff Scientist, EISCAT
Bengt Hultqvists väg 1, 981 92 Kiruna, Sweden
Work phone: +46 (0)72 5813347
e-mail:maria.mihalikova@eiscat.se
Apologies for cross-posting, but please forward to colleagues/redistribute)
*PITHIA-NRF Trans-National Access (TNA) Open Call (extended deadline)
*
/The deadline for the 7th PITHIA-NRF TNA call has been extended to 2
October.*
*/
*PITHIA-NRF* launches its *seventh TNA call*. This is *the FINAL call
*in the frame of PITHIA-NRF project to provide effective and convenient
access to the best European research facilities for observations of the
upper atmosphere, including the *plasmasphere*, *ionosphere* and
*thermosphere*. The access is organised through the Trans-National
Access (TNA) programme, and provides an opportunity for researcher and
other users to execute and carry out their own projects at one of the
PITHIA-NRF research facilities.
*The call is open from 15 August 2024*. It is an *Open Call* and
applications are handled as they arrive with typical evaluation times of
2 to 3 weeks. If accepted the projects can commence for organisation and
realisation from September 2024 and the project report must be submitted
at the latest by the end of February 2025. *The call closes on 2 October
2024*.
More information about the call can be obtained from the call website:
https://pithia-nrf.eu/pithia-nrf-users/tna/tna-calls/seventh-tna-call
Access can be requested by scientific users from academia, Small and
Medium Enterprises, large companies and public organizations by
proposing a scientific project and filling in the online application
form: https://pithia-nrf.eu/forms/tna-application-form-7
<https://pithia-nrf.eu/forms/tna-application-form-7>
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*/Contact:/* TNA Support Centre (tna(a)pithia-nrf.eu
<mailto:tna@pithia-nrf.eu?subject=TNA Programme>)
/EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme Grant Agreement No
101007599/
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Dr. Anders Tjulin
Staff Scientist, EISCAT
Bengt Hultqvists väg 1
981 92 Kiruna, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)706 608972
e-mail:anders.tjulin@eiscat.se
Dear Colleagues,
We are looking for a full-time Doctoral researcher for a period of three years, starting 1st January 2025, at the Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit of the University of Oulu. The position is part of the Finnish national Doctoral Education Pilot for Mathematics of Sensing, Imaging and Modelling (DREAM). DREAM will educate in total 100 doctors located at 7 Finnish universities in a diverse and multidisciplinary setting, encompassing applied mathematics, physics, engineering, and applied sciences.
https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:748647/
The Space Physics project will include use and development of advanced incoherent scatter radar data analysis tools for novel observations of the ionosphere with the EISCAT3D radar system. The radar observations will be combined with data from other ground-based and satellite instruments to study particle precipitation, energy transfer processes, and plasma flows in the auroral magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system.
Requirements: MSc in Space Physics or a related field. Good programming skills are necessary. Experience in space physics datasets, inverse problems, and high-power computing are considered benefits, but are not required.
Please spread the word among colleagues and potential candidates!
More information: Dr. Ilkka Virtanen, ilkka.i.virtanen(a)oulu.fi<mailto:ilkka.i.virtanen@oulu.fi>
Best regards,
Ilkka
