IRI/COST 296 WORKSHOP

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Program committee: Bodo Reinisch, Dieter Bilitza, Alain Bourdillon, Bruno Zolesi, Jan Lastovicka
LOC: Jan Lastovicka, Dalia Buresova, Petra Sauli, Ludmila Triskova, Vladimir Truhlik (IAP Prague)

The workshop (10-14 July 2007, Prague, Czech Republic) was focused on further development of the IRI model (International Reference Ionosphere), on forcing of the ionosphere from above (mainly space weather) and below (mainly atmospheric waves) and telecommunication/raging/navigation/positioning aspects of ionospheric research (for COST296). No registration fee.

IRI is the internationally accepted observation-based model of the ionosphere, which is continuously under development, observational and model testing, and improvement/updating. Space weather and atmospheric waves are the most important external forcing on the ionosphere; their investigation is now a hot topic in ionospheric research.

Expected solicited speakers: e.g. D. Bilitza, V. Truhlik, B. Zolesi, L. Cander. Publication of refereed papers in a special issue of Advances in Space Research is foreseen.

News: This is the Book of Abstracts . Pictures from collective photographing are here: 1, 2, 3, 4. You may download presented Posters and Oral Presentations .

Acknowledgement: We wish to thank the following for their contribution to the success of this conference: European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force Research Laboratory (www.london.af.mil).
Further we thank Project COST296 funded by the European Science Foundation, Committee for Space Research (COSPAR), International Union of Radio Sciences (URSI), International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (UFA, ASCR).