Commission H report

1997-1999 triennium

 

Activities of the commission in this triennium has been devoted mostly to the organisation of meetings and conferences and to the preparation of sessions for the Toronto General Assembly.

 

The following working groups has been active:

 

- IAGA/URSI joint WG on VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of Ionospheres and Magnetospheres, VERSIM, IAGA Co-Chair: A.J. Smith,

( A.J.Smith@bas.ac.uk ), URSI CO-Chair: M. Parrot ( mparrot@cnrs-orleans.fr )

www page: http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/uasd/versim.html

A Newsletter , edited by A.J. Smith is available.

 joint WG, with CGH, on Wave and Turbulence Analysis, comm H Co-Chair: F. Lefeuvre

 joint WG, with GH, on Active Experiments in Plasmas, comm H Co-Chair: W.J. Raitt

 joint WG, with GH, on Computer Experiments, Simulation and Analysis of Wave Plasma Processes, comm H Co-Chairs: H. Matsumoto & M. Ashour-Abdalla

 joint WG, with EGH, on Electromagnetic Effects Associated with Seismic Activity, comm H Co-Chair: M. Parrot

 

Commission H sponsored the following meetings and conferences:

 

In mode B ( with financing ):

 1. 5th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations, Kyoto, Japan, March 1997

 2. 3rd Volga Space Plasma Physics Summer School, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, June 1997

 3. 23rd International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Toulouse, France, July 1997

 4. Workshop on International Reference Ionosphere, Lowell, MA, USA, July 1999

 5. Workshop on Radio Methods for Studying Turbulence, Urbana, Ill., USA, August 1999

 6. Workshop on Plasmasphere Rediscovered: A Tribute to Donald Carpenter, Toronto, Canada, August 1999

 7. 26th General Assembly of URSI, Comm H and joint GH sessions, Toronto, Canada, August 1999

 

In mode A ( without financing ):

 1. International Conference on Plasma Physics, Nagoya, Japan, September 1996

 2. International Conference on Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Goa, India, October 1996

 3. Conference on Electromagnetic Scattering from Gases and Plasmas, Lviv, Ukraine, April 1998

 4. International Workshop Day on Diffraction'98, St. Petersbourg, Russia, June 1998

 5. COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Nagoya, Japan, July 1998

 

Information on commission activities is available to the Waves in Plasmas community and other interested at: http://terezka.ufa.cas.cz/ursi/index.html

 

Vladimir Fiala, Chair