The DST - SERC School on "SPACE WEATHER”, will be conducted
at IIG H.Q. Navi Mumbai, during 7 - 27 April, 2010. This school
is a part of the series of five SERC schools in Atmospheric and
Space Sciences, to be supported by Dept. of Science & Technology
(DST), Govt. of India. This school is aimed at research students
and young teachers in universities/ colleges/ institutions to motivate
them to take up research in the areas of Atmospheric and Space Sciences.
The following
topics will be covered during the School:
- Physics
and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere
- Solar Transient
phenomena
- Solar and
interplanetary observations
- Sun-Earth
interaction processes and the earth’s magnetic field
- Geomagnetic
Disturbances : Storms and substorms
- Effects
of magnetic activity on ionosphere and thermosphere
- Ionospheric
Irregularities
- Magnetic
Observatory Instruments
- Observational
techniques of probing the ionosphere
- Climatology
of Ionospheric Prediction
- Space Weather
Applications
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