HELCATS

Kick-Off Meeting

The consortium and EU meet to kick-off the HELCATS project

The kick-off meeting in May 2014 marked the formal launch of the HELCATS project, a major EU-funded initiative to improve the identification and tracking of solar storms.

An international team, led by scientists from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, met in Oxfordshire to review the activities to be undertaken within the project and to dicuss programatic details. The HELCATS initiative will exploit heliospheric imaging from NASA satellites with advanced processing and modelling techniques to follow huge clouds of solar material as they are blown off the Sun and speed their way out into our solar system.

Minutes of Meeting

The meeting agenda is shown below. Follow the links to download copies of the individual presentations.

Time	Presentation	Presenter
Wednesday 14th May
10:00 – 10:30	Introduction	Richard Harrison
10:30 – 11:00	EU perspective	Sabri Mekaoui (EU project officer)
11:00 – 11:30	WP1 HELCATS overview	Richard Harrison (WP1 lead)
11:30 – 11:45	WP2 Overview/Manual CME identification	Jackie Davies (WP2 lead)
11:45 – 12:00	WP2 Automatic CME identification	Luciano Rodriguez
13:30 – 13:45	WP3 Overview/Forward modelling	Volker Bothmer (WP3 lead)
13:45 – 14:00	WP3 Geometrical modelling	Jackie Davies
14:00 – 14:15	WP3 Inverse modelling	Peter Gallagher
14:15 – 14:30	WP4 Overview - In-situ & coronal verification	Christian Möstl (WP4 lead)
14:30 – 14:45	WP4 Coronal comparison	Volker Bothmer
14:45 – 15:00	WP4 In-situ comparison	Emilia Kilpua
15:30 – 16:15	WP5 Overview - CIR detection WP6 Overview - Advanced numerical modelling	Alexis Rouillard (WP5/6 lead)
16:15 – 16:30	WP7 Overview/Type II observations	Jonathan Eastwood (WP7 lead)
16:30 – 16:45	WP7 IPS observations	Mario Bisi
16:45 – 17:00	WP8 Overview - Dissemination	Chris Perry (WP8 lead)
17:00 – 17:15	WP8 IRAP tools/AMDA	Alexis Rouillard
17:15 – 17:45	Wrap up (see meeting minutes )	Richard Harrison