IS@AO 18-19 April 2011

Program

Attendees

Presentations:

1. The Atmospheric Monitoring Program at the Pierre Auger Observatory, Lawrence Wiencke (School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA)


2. Atmospheric Monitoring at the Pierre Auger Observatory with meteorological radio soundings, Bianca Keilhauer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)


3. Meteorological model data for the site of the Pierre Auger Observatory, Martin Will (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)


4. Extracting Aerosol properties from the Central Laser Facility of the Pierre Auger Observatory, Karim Louedec (LAL, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ Paris Sud, France)


5. Observations at the Auger Observatory with a Raman Lidar: the climatological aerosol optical properties at the boundary layer, Vincenzo Rizi: (L’Aquila, Italy)


6. Monitoring of atmospheric properties on Auger site with Elastic Lidars, Aurelio Tonachini (INFN, Torino, Italy)


7. Ground-truthing a satellite-based night-time cloud identification technique at the Pierre Auger Observatory, Johana Chirinos (Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA)


8. Aerosol at Auger Laboratory and its environmental implication: discussion around a collaborative project, Remi Losno (LISA - University Paris Diderot, Paris Est Creteil and CNRS, France)


9. Detecting cosmic ray effects on clouds, Giles Harrison: (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK)


10. Stratiform cloud edge charging from cosmic ray ionisation, Dr Keri Nicoll (University of Reading, UK)


11. Infra-red absorption by molecular cluster-ions formed by cosmic rays in the lower atmosphere, Karen Aplin: (Oxford University, UK)


12. Potential Atmospheric Science Research Applications using the Auger Observatory, Stephen Mobbs: (National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, UK)


13. Seismic network at the Auger Observatory, Enrique G. Triep (University of San Juan, Argentina)


14. Deriving Fault Slip Histories from Cosmogenic Exposure Ages, Richard Phillips: (University of Leeds)


15. ICES:
    1. ICES, International Research Project for Monitoring Subsurface and Active Volcano Zone at Malargüe Area, M. I. López Pumarega (ICES, Malargüe, Argentina)
    
    
    2. Part II: The new Malargüe seismic array, E N Ruigork (Delft, Netherlands)
    
    
16. Cosmic Rays and Climate, Arnold Wolfendale (University of Durham)


17. The CLOUD Experiment at CERN, Jasper Kirkby: (CERN) {no slides available yet}


18. Radio emissions produced by cosmic-ray extensive air showers traversing thunderclouds, Joseph R. Dwyer (Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA)


19. Particle bursts from thunderclouds – natural particle accelerators above our heads, Ashot Chilingarian (Artem Alikhanian National Laboratory, Armenia)


20. Effects of Thunderstorms in the Electromagnetic Component of the Secondary Cosmic Rays in the Pierre Auger Observatory, J. Alvarez-Castillo (Ciencias Espaciales, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)


21. Cosmic Rays and Thunderstorms, Sasha Lidvansky: (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow)


22. Lightning Air Shower Study (LASS), William Brown (Colorado State University-Pueblo)


23. Elves:
    1. Observation of Elves in Auger, Roberto Mussa (INFN, Torino)
    2. Animation
    
    
24. Future Plans at the Pierre Auger Observatory, Lawrence Wienecke (School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA)