SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR

University of Maryland
Computer & Space Science Building, Room 2400
4:30 PM Monday, 2 April
Coffee, Tea & Cookies 4:15-4:30 PM

Menelaos Sarantos
University of Maryland

An automated detection scheme for ICME identification from in situ data

Interplanetary CME identification is a subjective process requiring human expert analysts. Each event exhibits a variety of signatures (e.g., high alpha abundance, low proton temperatures, bidirectional electron flows and others) that are almost never all present at once. A quantitative scheme using statistical clustering has been developed to process multidimensional spacecraft data (e.g. density, velocity etc) with the objective of separating CME events from ambient solar wind measurements. Early results detailing the efficacy of such an automated scheme will be presented.


Sponsored by: Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland. For information call John Paquette at (301) 405-6237 or go to the UMD Space Physics group seminar web site.

For free parking please park in lot DD or anywhere on levels 1-2 in lot B (the big parking garage) after 4:00 pm. Make sure that you park in a spot WITHOUT a parking meter. More parking information is at the seminar website.