Season s Greetingfrom new director of AOSWA office

Page 2

Researchers of Korea and Japandiscussed the regional GPS-TEC dataexchange
Page 3
Pick of this edition
Concentric waves observed in theionosphere after the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake
Information
Call for Papers: IconSpace2013

Page 4

Page 5

Welcome to the AOSWA Link
The Link is intended to serve as a communication forum for the AOSWA community. Throughcontent developed by AOSWA members and by secretariat staff we hope to provide readers with awealth of information about the organization and its work. Information in the Link is aimed at
AOSWA participants as well as users of Space Weather forcast.
We need your help to make this publication a success and a useful communication tool. Your inputand content submissions will be critical. We are very open to suggestions and topics of interest at
any time. Your information such as meeting, topics of research or operation are welcomed. It ispreferred that your manuscript is within 500 words and contains several figures. Please do nothesitate to submit any feedback to this publication to Secretariat at AOSWA Office at any time.
Best wishies for the New Year!

COLLABORATION...EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS

Season s Greeting from new director of AOSWA office

Dear AOSWA members;
I started to work as a director of Space weatherand environment Informatics laboratory, NICT
since September 1, 2012. And I work as adirector of AOSWA office as a successor offormer director Dr. Murata.
I have been a research manager of Space
environment group between 2006-2009 andworked for SEALION, so I already have a lot offriends in the AOSWA members. I am glad tohave cooperative works with you and to havenew friends from now on.
As you know, we have the peak period of cycle
24 on this new year and expect highly active
period in space environment. It is a very goodchance to observe very rare phenomena and tofind new results, and to move on, it is very
important to have close cooperation with eachother. I hope that AOSWA works for a frameworkof our good communication and cooperation.
I have a notice about Inter-programme Coordi
nation Team on Space W eather (ICTSW ).
ICT SW wa s e sta b lish e d a s a p ro gra m o f
UN/WMO in May 2010. Now nineteen countries
and seven International organizations join theteam, and Terrance Onsager (USA) and Xianxin
Zhang (China) Works as co-chairs. The third
meeting was held on Brusells, Belgium.
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/sat/meetings/ICTSW-3.php
In this meeting we discussed to increase them e m b e r, e s p e c i a l l y f r o m A s i a - O c e a n i a ncountries.
All AOSWA members are welcomed to join theICTSW. If you are interested in it, please contact
to me or co-chairs (terry.onsager@noaa.gov).
I wish you have a nice new year.

COLLABORATION...EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS

Researchers of Korea and Japan discussed
the regional GPS-TEC data exchange at NICTOn October 4 (Thu) and 5 (Fri) in 2012, three
Korean researchers, Dr. Seung Jun Oh, Dr. Lee
Jeong-Deok and Dr. Yongha Kim, visited NICT(National Institute of Infor-mation andCommunications Technology, Japan).
Dr. Seung Jun Oh and Dr. Lee Jeong-Deob e l o n g t o S E L a b ( Sp a c e E n v i r o n m e n t
Laboratory, Inc., Seoul, Korea). SELab is acontractor of KMA (Korea Meteorological
Administration, Korea) and RRA (National RadioResearch Agency, Korea).
D r. Yo n g h a K i m i s a r e s e a r c h e r o f C N U(Chungnam National University, Korea). Hestudies the ionosphere in collaboration with KMA.
The three guests discussed the Space Weather
Operation of NICT, including OneSpaceNet (ascience cloud in NICT) with researchers of NICT.
They also discussed regional GPS-TEC dataexchange and technical issues including theperspectives of the collaboration between Koreaand Japan.
The data exchange is expected to bring theaccuracy improvement of Space W eather
Operation in Korea and Japan. As a part ofactivity of AOSWA, which encourages thecollaboration through data and informationexchange in Asia-Oceania region, it was decided

to discuss more how to exchange data
concretely.
On Thursday, special seminar was held. In theseminar, Dr. Seung Jun Oh and Dr. Yongha Kim
made presentations. The title of Dr. Seung Jun
Space Weather Operations in Korea: The R2Otransition activities by
The introduction
and the current status of the space weather
operation and research by Korean governmentand research institute was summarized focusing
on the R2O transition activities by SELab., andthe ongoing ionospheric research activities bySELab was presented. The title of Dr. Yongha
plasmasphere coupling based on JASON TEC
data and SAMI2
He discussed SAMI2
model relations between ionospheric andplasmaspheric TEC in comparison with JASON
data.
KMA: Korea Meteorological Administration
http://web.kma.go.kr/eng/index.jsp
RRA: National Radio Research Agency, Korea
http://rra.go.kr/eng/index.jsp
CNU: Chungnam National University
http://plus.cnu.ac.kr/english/index.jsp
GPS-TEC:
GPS: Global Positioning System
TEC: Ionspheric Total Electron Content
R2O transition: Research to Operation transition