Asia-Oceania Space Weather Alliance:
AOSWA
Ken T. MURATA, Tsutomu NAGATSUMA,Shinichi WATARI and Takuya TSUGAWA
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Applied Electromagnetic Research InstituteSpace Weather and Environment Informatics Laboratory

ISWI (International Space
Weather Initiative) WG
2009~2011

UN (United Nations)

WMO（World Meteorological Organization)

Long-Term Sustainability WG
2011~2014
EG-C (SW)2011~
ICTSW (International
Coordinate Team for Space
Weather) 2009~
ISES

ICSU（the International Council for Science）
1931~

WDS (World DataSystem)
WDC

Regional Space Weather Week/Workshop

International SW (operation) organizations

FAGS

European Space WeatherWeek
Asia-Oceania Space WeatherAllianceSpace Weather Workshop
NOAA2Space Weather Regional Warning Centers ofInternational Space Environment Service (ISES)Space Research Center(Warsaw, Poland)
Lund Space Weather Center

Hydrometeorological Service(Lund , Sweden)(Moscow, Russia)

Natural Resource Canada(Ottawa, Canada)

RRA (Jeju-do, South Korea)

Royal Observatory of Belgium(Brussels, Belgium)

NICT (Tokyo, Japan)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics

NOAA/SWPC

Beijing Astronomical Observatory(Beijing, China)(Plague, Czech)(Boulder , U.S.A.)

National Physical Laboratory(New Deli, India)
INPE (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil)

Hermanus Geomagnetic Observatory(Herumanus, South Africa)

IPS Radio and Space Services(Sydney, Australia)

There are 5 RWCs of 14 (36%) from Asia-Oceania region!

Space Weather
Workshop @USASpace Weather
Week @Europe
4The 1st AOSWA Kick-off meeting
12/03/2010 Bandung - Indonesia• How to find requirement and demand fromSpace Weather users?
• How to exchange observation data betweencountries?
– International network for data transfer– Real-time data exchange and services (on Web)– Archived data exchange and storage (including
large-scale simulation data)• How to exchange (academic/ general/
practical/ commercial-use) information on
Space Weather?

Asia-Oceania Space Weather Alliance

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AOSWA meetings
2010.12 - LAPAN workshop• The first kick-off meeting between Japan, Indonesia, Australia, India, and Malaysia
2010.01.2 - SEALION workshop @Thailand• Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, USA, Brazil, Thailand, Laos, Philippine , China and Japan• 2nd Kick-off meeting of the AOSWA
2011.04 @NOAA, USA• Space Weather Workshop @NOAA, USA & ISES meeting 2011
• Local meeting between A-O ISES countries
2011.08 - AOGS @Taiwan• AOGS; “Collaborative Researches and Operations of Space Weather Forecasting inAsia-Oceania region”• 3rd kick-off meeting of the AOSWA
2012.02 AOSWA 1st Workshop @Chiang Mai, Thailand• 10 countries, 25 organizations, 77 participants!

AOSWA 1st Workshop

2012.08 AOGS2012 @Singapore• Asia-Oceania Space Weather Alliance: AOSWA session• AOSWA informal meetingToday!

2013 AOSWA 2nd Workshop• At Kunming, China

6will be proposed by Dr. Zhanle Du

Associates (so far)
http://aoswa.nict.go.jp/associates.html

AOSWA mailing list
<AOSWA@ml.nict.go.jp>

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Call for Paper

The First AOSWA Workshop
The First Asia-Oceania Space Weather Alliance Workshop

22 – 24 February 2012Imperial Mae Ping Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Asia-Oceania Space Weather Alliance (AOSWA) is a regional forum for thedevelopment of collaboration and promotion of the space weather activities in the Asiaand Oceania region.
The AOSWA 2012 in Thailand will be held during 22 – 24 February 2012, in Chiang Mai,Thailand.
The AOSWA 2012 is regional/international workshop, providing an excellent forum forresearchers and operators of space weather in Asia-Oceania and other countries to presentand discuss operational collaborations, data exchanges and some competitions, which leads
to the development of space weather activities in the region.
Everyone, who works in space weather fields in Asia-Oceania and other regions, isencouraged to submit a paper to the workshop. New research results and operational
issues are welcome. Significant discussions are expected, especially from the view of theAsia-Oceania regional collaborations.

Possible Topics of Presentation
1.
2.
3.

Ionospheric Variations and Their Effect on Radio Propagation
Geospace Variations – Causes and Effects
Present status and future plan of operation, service, and modeling of space weatherImportant dates
1.
2.

Abstract Submission: 20 Dec. 2011 – 4 Jan. 2012
Registration: 20 Dec. 2011 – 16 Jan. 2012

For more information / Contact
Web site: http://aoswa.nict.go.jp
Email address: sw-project-office@ml.nict.go.jp

Committee Chair:
TBD, Japan
Co-Committee Chair:
TBD, Thailand
General Committee:
Dr. Ken T. Murata (NICT, Japan)
Dr. Phil Wilkinson (IPS, Australia)
Dr. Huaning Wang (NAOC, China)
Dr. Rupesh M. Das (NPL, India)
Dr. Bae Seok-Hee (RRA, Korea)
Program and Organizing Committee:
Dr. Ken T. Murata (NICT, Japan)
Dr. Dave Neudegg (IPS, Australia)
Dr. Huaning Wang (NAOC, China)
Dr. Siqing Liu (NAOC, China)
Dr. Xiaoxin Zhang (NAOC, China)
Dr. A. K. Upadhayaya (NPL, India)
Dr. Bae Seok-Hee (RRA, Korea)
Dr. Shinichi Watari (NICT, Japan)
Dr. Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT, Japan)
Dr. Takuya Tsugawa (NICT, Japan)
M. Shikatani (NICT, Japan)
Dr. Takashi Maruyama (NICT, Japan)
Local Organizing Committee:
Dr. Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT, Japan)
Dr. Masayuki Fujise (NICT, Japan)
Dr. Akachai Sang-In(CMU, Thailand)
Dr. Suttichai Premrudeepreechachan(CMU, Thailand)
Dr. Tharadol Komolmis (CMU, Thailand)
Dr. Ukrit Mankong (CMU, Thailand)

The 1st AOSWA Workshop 22-24 Feb. 201210 countries, 30 organizations, 76
participants, 41 oral presentations, 21 poster
presentations, 1 tutorial lecture, an excursion,and business meeting.

Business Meeting
23th Feb. 2012

Agenda: the 1st AOSWA business meeting• Objectives of the AOSWA• AOSWA organizations• AOSWA workshop policy• 2nd AOSWA workshop and beyond• Sessions of AOSWA workshops• For future…

Objectives of the AOSWA• Collaboration– Regional collaborations in operations and researchworks, including data exchange• Capacity Building– Instruction of space weather operations for newcomers• Information Exchange– Information exchange on international, regionaland national activities of space weather

• AOSWA organizations– AOSWA Office (Secretariat)• NICT（-2015）

AOSWA is open.
Industrial or governmentalorganizations are welcome.
Attempt to promote in eachcountry.

– Membership and Associates• Dissemination at every conference?
• Submission of a report to “Space Weather” (journal) onAOSWA and 1st workshop– Discussion• Mailing list (at least one address from each associate)• ISES/RWC meeting (annual)• AOGS (annual)
Web/Mailing list important.
• SNS?

Irregular, for a while.
Attempt to be within 2 years
and eventually annual.

• AOSWA workshop policy– Annual meeting? Regular? Irregular?
– Application for national/international budget• By each institute• By AOSWA• 2nd AOSWA workshop and beyond– General Committee• One from each RWC/ISES• Other members?

RWC members, for a while.
Contact with me, if you like.

– 2nd AOSWA workshop• Organizing and Program Committee (2nd AOSWA Workshop)• Local Organizing Committee (2nd AOSWA Workshop)• General Chair (General Co-Chair)nd2 workshop organized by China.
Date/Location TBD.

• Sessions of AOSWA workshops– Introduction of each institute– Research discussion– Report of operation (with technical report)– Tutorial session?
– Industrial session?
– Report of other international/regional activities?
– Demonstration (of data and applications)?
Need to discuss more.
Eventually up to Program committee.

• For future…
– Authorization of AOSWA

Need to discuss more.

• World Data System (WDS) application?

Magnetic Equator

Magnetic Equator18GPS-TEC at Sumatra island

Dense and wide-coverage GPS receiver
network can reveal their spatial structures,propagation directions, and temporal
evolutions.

GPS receivers all over the world 5000 receiver data available online

Current

Near Future Plan & Vision

TID?
EIA?

TID
EAI

Plasma Bubble?

EIA?
TID?

Plasma Bubble

EAI
TID

Thank you for your attention!
See you next in China in 2013!

1st AOSWA workshop
77 participants from 25 organizations of 10 countries
Australia, China, (India), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea,Thailand, and Vietnam