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Team Title: Antarctic Geospace and ATmosphere reseArch (AGATA) 

Team ID: G2B-12

Team Lead:
Lucilla Alfonsi (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - INGV), lucilla.alfonsi@ingv.it

Team Co-Lead:
Wojciech J. Miloch (University of Oslo, Norway), w.j.miloch@fys.uio.no


Keywords (Impact):
Climate, Electric power systems, GICs, Navigation and/or Communications, (Aero)space assets functions

Keywords (Other)

  • polar regions
  • interdisciplinary
  • multiinstruments approach
  • IPY

Keywords (Activity Type):
Understanding , Requirements , Modeling, Forecasting , Data Utilization , Information Architecture , Assessment , New Instrumentation A, New Instrumentation B, Roadmap

Introduction:
The atmosphere over the poles are sentinels of global change in the terrestrial weather and in the space weather domain. The existence, the prosecution and the upgrading of the ground-based and spaceborn observations are crucial to ensure the necessary advancement of the knowledge and the consequent improvement of the space weather warning, mitigation and forecasting tools. As the paucity of the observations, especially in and over Antarctica, and the heavy resources needed to run the experimental activities, tis crucial to facilitate the interaction between the different communities already present in the ISWAT communities and beyond. The Antarctic Geospace and ATmosphere reseArch (AGATA) Scientific Research Programme endorsed by SCAR is a coordinated, worldwide effort to monitor, investigate and better understand the physics of the polar atmosphere and the impact of the Sun-Earth interactions on the polar regions (https://scar.org/science/research-programmes/agata). As the importance of the AGATA objectives for the ISWAT community we propose to have a dedicated multidisciplinary Team to mirror what already approved by SCAR.

Objectives:
The AGATA PPG aims to significantly advance the current knowledge of the polar atmosphere and geospace, also in the bi-polar, interhemispheric context. AGATA will contribute to answering the outstanding scientific questions within atmospheric and space physics:
How are different atmospheric layers coupled in the polar regions?
How does the upper polar atmosphere respond to increased geomagnetic activity, including energy transfer from space into the ionosphere?
How can we improve the understanding of the Antarctic atmosphere by radio signals from the GNSS or other satellites, and from ground-based radars?
To address these open question AGATA is offered as an open platform to:

  • Gather scientists working on the study of the atmosphere, the plasmasphere and the geospace at polar latitudes to work in synergy;
  • Encourage the interaction between different scientific communities, e.g., between astronomers, geodesists and atmospheric scientists to share needs, strategies,competencies and data;
  • Coordinate common actions to identify best practices to maximize the exchange of data, information, models, algorithms and other resources among the represented communities;
  • Facilitate the mobility and the sharing of students and early-career scientists by offering them a stimulating multidisciplinary environment in which to train;
  • Stimulate joint initiatives aimed at setting up international collaborative projects;
  • Propose activities for capacity building, outreach, training and dissemination activities of information about Antarctic Science.

All the proposed actions will allow AGATA to play a significant role in the plans for the next International Polar Year (2032-2033).

Action Topics:
Advance modeling capability of coupled atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere system, Understand and quantify cross-scale coupling, Establish a data base of system performance degradation data and ionospheric events catalogues (including ionospheric storms, travelling ionospheric disturbances bubbles and scintillations)

Cluster with overlapping topics:
S1: Long term solar variability, H2: CME structure, evolution and propagation through heliosphere, G1: Geomagnetic environment, G2A: Atmosphere variability, G2B: Ionosphere variability, G3: Near-end radiation and plasma environment

Link to external website:
https://scar.org/science/research-programmes/agata

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Abdalla Shaker ABDALLA (Egyptian Space Agency, Egypt)
Aderonke Akerele (National Space Research and Development Agency Nigeria)
Lucilla Alfonsi (INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
Chukwuma Anoruo (University of the Vale do Paraíba (Univap), BRAZIL)
Sharon Aol (Mbarara University of Science and Technology)
Siti Aminah Bahari (University of Kebangsaan Malaysia)
Gerd Baumgarten (Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock)
Simon Bouriat (Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO)
Dalia Buresova (Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR, CZECH)
Jorge Chau (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany)
Jaroslav Chum (Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR, CZECH)
Pierre Cilliers (SANSA - South African National Space Agency, SOUTH AFRICA)
Anthea Coster (MIT Haystack Observatory, USA)
Saurabh Das (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Giorgiana De Franceschi (INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
Hiren Kumar Deva Sarma (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Richard Eastes (University of Colorado, LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, USA)
Ana G. Elias (National University of Tucuman, ARGENTINA)
Carl-Fredrik Enell (EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden)
Federico Gasperini (Orion Space Solutions)
Adriana Maria Gulisano (IAFE/DCAO-FCEN, UBA-CONICET, Argentina)
Ingemar Häggström (EISCAT Scientific Association, Sweden)
M Mainul Hoque (DLR - German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Rayan Imam (INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
Gina Isar (Institute of Space Science - INFLPR Subsidiary, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania)
Varsha Kadapu Ramesh (TBD)
Hyomin Kim (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Anshu Kumari (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Stefan Lotz (SANSA - South African National Space Agency, SOUTH AFRICA)
Liliana Macotela (Norwegian Research Centre, Norway)
Veera kumar Maheswaran (TBD)
Ayman Mahrous (E-JUST - Egypt Japan University of Science and Technology)
Miguel Martinez Ledesma (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Jürgen Matzka (GFZ Potsdam, GERMANY)
Eduardo Mendoza (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica)
Wojciech Miloch (University of Oslo, Norway)
Alexander Mishev (University of Oulu, Finland)
Maria Graciela Molina (Universidad Nacional de Tucuman)
Anna Morozova (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Waraporn Nuntiyakul (Chiang Mai University, THAILAND)
Grzegorz Nykiel (DLR - German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Samuel Ogunjo (Federal University of Technology Akure Nigeria)
Navin Parihar (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India)
Akshay Patil (Indian Institute of Tropical Metrology, Pune, India)
Eduardo Perez Macho (INPE - National Institute for Space Research, BRAZIL)
Babatunde Rabiu (National Space Research and Development Agency Nigeria)
Vincenzo Romano (INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
Satyajit Singh Saini (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Achara Seripienlert (Chiang Mai University, THAILAND)
Muhammad Mubasshir Shaikh (Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences and Technology, United Arab Emirates)
Luca Spogli (INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
Eduardo Valadez-Campos (TBD)
Suwicha Wannawichian (Chiang Mai University, THAILAND)
Christopher Watson (University of New Brunswick, CANADA)
Zhonghua Xu (Virginia Tech, USA)
Ahmed Yassen (E-JUST - Egypt Japan University of Science and Technology)