DAY 1	MONDAY, 2ND SEPTEMBER,2024	RESPONSIBILITY
08:00 – 08:45	Courtesy call by all lecturers to PU to sign Visitors Book at the VC office	Secretariat-PU
08:00 – 09:00	Registration	Secretariat-PU
09:00 – 09:30	Opening ceremony	DVC-(R&E)-Pwani University, VC Pwani University Co-Directors
09:30 – 10:30	Ionosphere – An Introduction	S. Watanabe
10:30 – 11:00	Tea/Health Break
11:00 - 12:00	IRI-Introduction and latest development incl Real-Time IRI	D. Bilitza
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:15	Forming teams and assigning research task	D. Bilitza
14:15 – 15:30	Team work with support from advisors and other lectures	All the lecturers
15:30 – 16:00	Tea/Health Break
16:00 – 17:30	Team work with support from advisors and other lectures	All the lecturers

DAY 2	TUESDAY, 3RD September, 2024	RESPONSIBILITY
09:00 - 09:45	Ionosondes and the measurements they take	J. B. Haburulema
09:45 – 10:30	GIRO and GAMBIT: access to ionosonde data	J. B. Haburulema
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
11:00 - 11:45	Incoherent scatter radar and ionospheric studies	S. R. Zhang
11:45 – 12:30	Access to incoherent scatter data	S. R. Zhang
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Team work with support from advisor and other lecturers.	All lecturers
15:30 - 16:00	Tea/Health Break
16:00 - 17:30	Team work with support from advisor and other lecturers	All lecturers

DAY 3	WEDNESDAY - 4TH SEPTEMBER, 2024.	RESPONSIBILITY
09:00 - 09:45	GNSS data and ionospheric studies	A. Krankowski
09:45 – 10:30	Access to GNSS data	A. Krankowski
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
11:00 - 11:30	Representation of plasma temperatures in IRI	V. Truhlik
11:30 – 12:00	Representation of ion composition in IRI	V. Truhlik
12:00 – 12:30	Access to satellite data	V. Truhlik
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 18:00	Excursion to Gede Ruins in Malindi

DAY 4	THURSDAY – 5TH SEPTEMBER, 2024	RESPONSIBILITY
09:00 - 09:45	Radio Occultation and access to COSMIC data	H. Haralambous
09:45 – 10:30	Low latitude electrodynamics, scintillation and Spread F	J. Olwendo
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
11:00 - 11:45	A general description and introduction to CCMCIRI at CCMC	Yue, Jia
11:45 – 12:30	A general description and introduction to CCMCIRI at CCMC	Chou, Min-Yang
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Team work with support from advisor and other lecturers
15:30 - 16:00	Tea/Health Break/Photo
16:00 – 17:30	Team work with support from advisor and other lecturers
18:00 – 21:00	Workshop Dinner

DAY 5	FRIDAY – 6th SEPTEMBER, 2024	RESPONSIBILITY
09:00 - 09:20	Dry run of student presentation – Team 1
09:20 - 09:40	Dry run of student presentation – Team 2
09:40 - 10:00	Dry run of student presentation – Team 3
10:00 – 10:20	Dry run of student presentation – Team 4
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
11:00 – 11:20	Dry run of student presentation – Team 5
11:20 – 11:40	Dry run of student presentation – Team 6
11:40 – 12:00	Dry run of student presentation – Team 7
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Team work with support from advisors and other lecturers
15:30 - 16:00	Tea/Health Break
16:00 – 17:30	Team work with support from advisors and other lecturers

International Reference Ionosphere 2024 Workshop
Sep 9 - 13, 2024

Modeling the ionosphere over Africa and Improvements of the International Reference Ionosphere
Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

DAY 1: - MON-9TH SEP	TITLE	AUTHORS
09:00 – 09:30	Registration and Opening Ceremony	Secretariat- Cynthia, T., Lydia O.
09:30 – 09:40	Welcoming Remarks by – Kenya Space Agency Director	CEO, KSA
09:40 – 10:00	An Overview of activities at the KSA in relation to space weather	Andrew Nyawade-KSA
10:00 – 10:30	The International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) - Current Status and Plans for the Future	Dieter Bilitza
10:30 – 11:00	Tea/Health Break
	IRI and Data Assimilation (Chair: Vladimir Truhlik)
11:00 – 11:20	International Reference Ionosphere and Ionospheric GNSS Radio Occultation	Tiger Jann-Yenq Liu* And Chi-Yen Lin, Shih-Ping Chen
11:20 – 11:40	INeal-Real Time Prediction of the Ionospheric Electron Density Based on Multi- Instrumental Observations	Chao Xiong*, Shunzu Gao, Qihui Jiang, Jie Wu, Yuhao Zheng
11:40 – 12:00	ARTEMIS project CAS/UWM real-time ionospheric maps as an input to IRI real-time assimilative models	Zishen Li*, Adam Froń, Ningbo Wang, Kacper Kotulak, Paweł Flisek, Andrzej Krankowski and Ang Liu
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch
	Storm Effects (Chair: Shigeto Watanabe)
14:00 - 14:20	Geomagnetic storm response in IRI: what it does well, not so well, and possibilities for the future	Tim Fuller-Rowell
14:20 – 14:40	Analysis of ionospheric storms induced by the G5-class super geomagnetic storm during May 10-11, 2024 and verification of the related IRI model	Young-Sil Kwak
14:40 – 15:00	3D Global Ionosphere Prediction Using Data Assimilation and UNet-LSTM Deep Learning	Chalachew Kindie Mengist*, Kyong- Hwan Seo, and Boo-Keun Khim.
15:00 – 15:30	Tea/Health Break
	Irregularities (Chair: Michael Pezzopane)
15:30 – 15:50	Characterization of post-sunset traveling ionospheric disturbances and their impact on ionospheric irregularities at the low latitude region.	Olwendo O. J *, and P. J. Cilliers
15:50 – 16:10	Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) effects on the SuperDARN High Frequency Radar Near Ranges Echoes (NREs)	Alicreance Hiyadutuje*, John Bosco Habarulema, Michael J. Kosch, Xiangcai Chen, Judy A.E. Stephenson, and Tshimangadzo Merline Matamba
16:10 – 16:30	Ionospheric irregularities at high latitudes:observations and models	Wojciech Miloch
16:30 – 16:50	Investigation and Prediction of Ionospheric Irregularities over Egypt	Hager Awad
16:50 – 17:10	Investigation of the discrepancy between FORMOSAT7/COSMIC2 (F7/C2) and Digisonde bottomside electron density profiles as a function of altitude	Mefe Moses*, Haris Haralambous

DAY 2: - TUE - 10TH SEP	TITLE	AUTHORS
	New Inputs for IRI I (Chair: John Bosco Habarulema)
09:00 - 09:30	Aspects of Sporadic E Layers	Haris Haralambous*, Christos Haldoupis
09:30 – 09:50	Model Descriptions of the Sporadic-E Occurrence Probability Based On GNSS Radio Occultation Data	Vladimir Truhlik*, Dieter Bilitza, Christina Arras, and Haris Haralambous
09:50 – 10:10	Investigation of Spectral Properties of Geomagnetic and Solar Indices Across Multiple Solar Cycles	Idrak Heybatli and Feza Arikan*
10:10 – 10:30	Comparison of Midlatitude Planar Trend Parameters of South Africa and its Northern Hemisphere Conjugates	Feza Arikan
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
	TEC and Topside I (Chair: Young-Sil Kwak)
11:00 - 11:20	Validation of the IRI-2020 topside ionosphere options through GNSS radio occultation observations by COSMIC-1 & -2 satellite constellations	Alessio Pignalberi*, Haris Haralambous, Dieter Bilitza, Pierdavide Coïsson, Bruno Nava, Michael Pezzopane, Fabricio Prol, Artem Smirnov, David R. Themens, Chao Xiong
11:20 – 11:40	On the Variations in Equatorial and Low-Latitude GPS-TEC and Assessment of NeQuick-2,IRI-2016 and IRI-2020 Models in the African Longitude during Solar Cycle 24-25	Aghogho Ogwala
11:40 – 12:00	Investigation of the Ionospheric slab thickness using Swarm-A, Ionosonde measurements, and the IRI2020 model	Ahmed Yassen
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
	TEC and Topside II (Chair: Feza Arikan)
14:00 - 14:20	Some ongoing GNSS ionospheric modelling initiatives potentially useful for the IRI model.	Manuel Hernández- Pajares
14:20 - 14:40	GNSS Receiver Bias Model for Near Real Time TEC Monitoring at Low Latitude, Thailand	Prasert Kenpankho
14:40 - 15:00	Total Electron Content Fluctuations and their Implications for Global Navigation Satellite Systems; Insights from the Low Latitudes above Thailand in Increasing Phase of Solar 25th Cycle	Thanapon Keokhumcheng
15:00 - 15:30	Tea/Health Break
	Plasma Bubble and Scintillations (Chair: Chao Xiong)
15:30 - 15:50	Effects of Ionospheric Scintillations on GPS Positioning at the low Latitude Region	Dusabe M.W., Jared O. H. Ndeda, O.J. Olwendo, and A.J.Kiroe.
15:50 - 16:10	Categorical effect of Magnetic Storms on Plasma Bubbles during Unsettled Periods	Ifeoluwa Adawa*, Moataz Abdelwahab, Yuichi Otsuka and Ayman Mahrous.
16:10 - 16:30	Seasonal Variations of TEC over Southern Africa During the Unusual Solar Minimum between Solar Cycle 23 and 24	D. M. Moeketsi*, F. Arikan and J. B.Habarulema
16:30 - 16:50	What is the difference between a major SSW and a geomagnetic storm impact on the Earth’s upper atmosphere-video talk	Loredana Perrone and Milhailov
16:50 - 17:10	PyIRI: Overview and Tutorial -video talk	Victoriya Forsythe

DAY 3: - WED - 11TH SEP	TITLE	AUTHORS
	F-peak I (Chair: Bruno Nava)
09:00 - 09:30	Fast Production of F2 Layer Peak Density and Height from Monthly Median IRI-Plas-TEC fitted to Observed TEC	T.L. Gulyaeva*, F. Arikan, M. Hernandez-Pajares, I. Stanislawska, A.M. Padokhin.
09:30 - 09:50	Computation of Real Height Ionograms Using IONOLAB-RAY	Esra Erdem Kocak,F. Arikan*
09:50 - 10:10	Some features of mid-latitude NmF2 variability at different levels of geomagnetic activity	V. Depuev*, M. Deminov, G Deminova, A.Depueva
10:10 - 10:30	Evaluation of the performance of IRI-2020 model over Kenya using GNSS-TEC measurements.	Dusabe M., Z. Njeri, J. Muriithi, M. Kelelue, H. Safary, J. Tanin, W. Chemonges, B. Oure, and A. Were
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
	F-peak II (Chair: Bruno Nava)
11:00 - 11:20	Global F-Region Electron Density from GNSS-POD Limb Sounding: A Comparison with IRI-2020 and NeQuick-2	N. Swarnalingam, D. L. Wu, D. Bilitza*, D. Emmons, C. Salinas, and Y Migoya-Orue
11:20 - 11:40	Comparing IRI-2020 Modelled hmF2 with Ionosonde Observation During Minimum and Maximum Solar Cycle 24 in the Southern African Region	Robert Sylivanus
11:40 - 12:00	A review of the modeling of the equatorial ionosphere with IRI model over Africa during the last three decades-video talk	Olivier OBROU
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 17:00	EXCURSION

DAY 4: - THUR – 12TH SEP	TITLE	AUTHORS
	Plasmasphere (Chair: Haris Haralambous)
09:00 - 09:30	Three-dimensional model of the plasmapause and plasmasphere	Shigeto Watanabe* and Dieter Bilitza
09:30 - 09:50	NEDM and its potential use to improve IRI model for topside ionosphere and plasmasphere	M Mainul Hoque*, Fabricio S. Prol and Norbert Jakowki
09:50 - 10:10	An Evaluation of Empirical Plasmasphere Models with the Goal of Extending the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) to Plasmaspheric Altitudes	Dieter Bilitza
10:10 - 10:30	Modelling Earth’s magnetic field over Southern Africa between 2014 and 2022 applying Revised Spherical Cap Harmonic Analysis (R-SCHA) on Swarm Satellite Data	Sanele Lionel Khanyile
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
	Plasma Temperatures and Ion Drift (Chair: Manuel Hernandez-Pajares)
11:00 - 11:20	A new empirical model for equatorial vertical drifts based on satellite and ground-based datasets	John Bosco Habarulema* and Daniel Okoh
11:20 - 11:40	Recent advances in global modelling of the electron temperature for IRI	V. Truhlik*, D.Bilitza ,and A. Pignalberi
11:40 - 12:00	Evaluating the IRI2020 Model performance of Ionospheric Electron Density (Ne), electron Temperature (Te) and Ion Temperature (Ti) in the topside ionosphere utilizing Swarm and ISR	Ola Abu Elezz
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
	Student Teams Presentations (Chair: Dieter Bilitza)
14:00 - 14:15	Team 1
14:15 - 14:30	Team 2
14:30 - 14:45	Team 3
14:45 - 15:00	Team 4
15:00 - 15:30	Tea/Health Break
	Student Teams Presentations (Chair: Dieter Bilitza)
15:30 - 15:45	Team 5
15:45 - 16:00	Team 6
16:00 - 16:15	Team 7

DAY 5 FRI, 13TH SEP	TITLE	AUTHORS
	New Inputs for IRI II (Chair: Tiger Jann-Yenq Liu)
09:00 - 09:30	The new ionosonde station of Malindi: its importance and first results	Michael Pezzopane*, Claudio Cesaroni, Alessio Pignalberi, Daniel Okoh, Luca Spogli, Lucilla Alfonsi, Joseph Olwendo, Bruno Nava, Enrico Zuccheretti, Carlo Marcocci, Emanuele Pica, and Vincenzo Romano
09:30 - 09:50	Programmable Advanced IonoSonde (AISP)	Carlo Scotto
09:50 - 10:10	A NeQuick model review: status and current Developments	Bruno Nava*, Pierdavide Coïsson, Sandro M. Radicella, Yenca Migoya- Orue, Alessio Pignalberi and Michael Pezzopane
10:10 - 10:30	State-of-the-Art Computerized Ionospheric Tomography over Africa	Sinem Deniz Yenen, F. Arikan*, O. Arikan
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Health Break
11:00 - 12:00	IRI Final Discussions
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Students Receive their Certificates
14:30 - 15:00	Awarding Prizes for Best Teams
15:00 - 15:30	Workshop concludes

POSTER No.	TITLE	AUTHORS
	Chair: Joseph Olwendo
P01	Total Electron Content (TEC) Temporal Variations and Ionospheric Irregularities during Strong Geomagnetic Storms over Bahir Dar in 2015	Geletaw Behailu Belayneh
P02	Total Electron Content (TEC) Temporal variations and Ionospheric Irregularities during strong Geomagnetic storms over Bahir Dar in 2015	Saydie Ali
P03	Radio Remote Sensing Assessment of Ionospheric Total Electron Content over Thanjavur GPS Station (Geomagnetic 2.91° N, 152.22°E) with Case Study Applications	Veera Kumar Maheswaran
P04	Total Electron Content Disturbances in Solar Cycle 24th and 25th over Low latitudes	Chollada Pansong
P05	Ionospheric TEC Response to the Magnetic Storm of June 23, 2015 at the American Sector: A Comparative Analysis of GPS Observations and the IRI-2016 Model	Bhupendra Malvi, Rafi Ahmad and Pramod Purohi
P06	Assessment of IRI Derived Electron Density Profiles with Ionosonde and COSMIC electron density profiles over the Indian Region	K Siba Kiran Guru*, S Sripathi
P07	Variations of Ionosphere over the African Equatorial/Low Latitude Region during 2012 – 2015	O.E. Adewusi*, A.O. Akala, and O.L. Ojo
P08	Geomagnetically-Induced Effects Related to Disturbed Geomagnetic Field Variations at Low Latitudes	Nguessan Kouassi
P09	Ionospheric storm effects in the EIA region in the American and Asian-Australian sectors during geomagnetic storms of October 2016 and September 2017	Bolarinwa Adekoya
P10	Responses of the African low-latitude ionosphere to 2015 St Patrick’s Day storm	Joshua Adewale
P11	Dynamical complexity response in Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances across Eastern Africa sector during geomagnetic storms using Neural Network Entropy	Oludehinwa Irewola
P12	Tropical Cyclones and Atmospheric-Ionospheric Coupling	Sanjay Kumar
P13	GNSS Ionospheric Water Vapor Observation over Thailand	Supawit Nambut
P14	Multi-technique Study of Equatorial Plasma bubble from the Offside Equatorial region of the Indian Sector: A Case Study	Krishna Sarkar
P15	Disturbances in the African Low-Latitude Ionosphere During the September 2017 Solar flare and Geomagnetic storm.	Teshome Dugassa and Valence Habayimana
P16	Assessment of improvement of the IRI model over Ethiopia for the modeling of the variability of TEC during the period 2013 – 2016	Yekoye Tariku