The contribution to IHY from the COST296 Action MIERS: Mitigation of Ionospheric Effects on Radio Sy

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The contribution to IHY from the COST296 Action
MIERS Mitigation of Ionospheric Effects on Radio
Systems Lucilla Alfonsi(1) Giorgiana De
Franceschi(1), David Altadill(2), Pal Bencze(3),
Alain Bourdillon(4), Ljiljana R. Cander(5),
Benito de la Morena(6), Lefteris Economou(7),
Miguel Herraiz(8), Kirsti Kauristie(9), Jan
Lastovicka(10), Silvia Pau(1), Gracia
Rodriguez(8), Richard Stamper(5), Iwona
Stanislawska(11) (1)Istituto Nazionale di
Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Rome, Italy (2)
Observatorio del Ebro (3) Geodetic and
Geophysical Institute - Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (4) Institut dElectronic et de
Telecommunications de Rennes (5) Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory, Council for the Central
Laboratory of the Research Councils (6) Instituto
Nacional de Tecnica Aerospacial (7) Intercollege
Limassol Campus (8) Universidad Complutense
Madrid (9) Finnish Meteorological Institute (10)
Institute of Atmospheric Physics (11) Space
Research Center
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COST296 activities related to the IHY Lucilla
Alfonsi(1) Giorgiana De Franceschi(1), David
Altadill(2), Pal Bencze(3), Alain Bourdillon(4),
Ljiljana R. Cander(5), Benito de la Morena(6),
Lefteris Economou(7), Miguel Herraiz(8), Kirsti
Kauristie(9), Jan Lastovicka(10), Silvia Pau(1),
Gracia Rodriguez(8), Richard Stamper(5), Iwona
Stanislawska(11) (1)Istituto Nazionale di
Geofisica e Vulcanologia (2) Observatorio del
Ebro (3) Geodetic and Geophysical Institute -
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (4) Institut
dElectronic et de Telecommunications de Rennes
(5) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Council for
the Central Laboratory of the Research
Councils (6) Instituto Nacional de Tecnica
Aerospacial (7) Intercollege Limassol Campus (8)
Universidad Complutense Madrid (9) Finnish
Meteorological Institute (10) Institute of
Atmospheric Physics (11) Space Research Center
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The COST296/IHY CIP
CIP 49 Programme title COST296/IHY Lead
Proposer Giorgiana De Franceschi Other
proposers COST296/IHY Coordination Team Members
IHY, ICESTAR, IPY Research topic Radio wave
propagation in the ionosphere - observations and
models. (http//ionos.ingv.it/IHY/resources/invita
tion.pdf)

• Description of Programme
• Development and maintenance of COST296/IHY Web
  site to exchange general information, expertise,
  know-how, links to the data archive and databases
  produced by this Action among the IHY community.
• Coordination of multi-instruments observation
  campaigns in synergy with the IY community. The
  data archive created during the observation
  periods and/or severe heliogeophysical conditions
  will also form a baseline collection against
  which later forecasting efforts may be compared.
• Stimulate joint investigations on interconnection
  between low, middle and high latitude ionosphere
  and plasmasphere as disturbances of the plasma
  distribution at low-latitude can also affect the
  mid and high latitude ionosphere in some large
  storm events.

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The COST296/IHY web site structure is hosted at
INGV and it is reachable also through the menu of
the COST296 official site. http//ionos.ingv.it/I
HY/ihy_index.html
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Special campaigns
COST 296 contributes to The Whole Heliosphere
Interval targeted campaigns from March 20 to
April 16 (http//ihy2007.org/WHI/targeted_plans.sh
tml). The COST 296 supports the first one of the
Geospace Targeted Observing Campaigns
(http//ihy2007.org/WHI/teccampaign.shtml) with
regular Vertical Sounding measurements and TEC
measurements. Contact David Altadill
daltadill_at_OBSEBRE.ES , Lucilla Alfonsi
lucilla.alfonsi_at_ingv.it European digisondes
observation campaign (in Drift mode) aimed at
measuring the ionospheric E layer height
variations by taking advantage of the Precision
Group Height Measurement technique (PGHM). The
COST296 campaign met the objectives of the Third
CAWSES Global Tidal campaign scheduled for 1 June
to 14 August 2007. Coordinator David Altadill
(daltadill_at_OBSEBRE.ES, David_AltadillFelip_at_uml.edu
)
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Realization of the European COST296 - IHY 
calendar Coordinated by INGV
The competition for the European kids drawings
(6-11 years old) has been launched on March 2007.
The best drawings have been published on the COST
296/IHY calendar issued on September 2007. The
launch has been made in the frame of different
outreach activities (seminars, conferences,
exhibitions, etc) organized at national level in
8 different Countries Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK. To
stimulate the fantasy of the pupils and to take
the opportunity of education on Sun and Sun-Earth
connections, some cards on specific items have
been produced and provided to the teachers.
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The Calendar hosts 3 drawings every two months
for each Country, covering 16 months (from
September 2007 to December 2008). The
Coordination team has received more than 1200
drawings from all over Europe! Among these only
25 have been selected. On September 20, the
Calendar has been officially presented with the
proclamation of the winners in Rome (INGV
Conference Hall).
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