Abstract
The COST 296 Action MIERS (Mitigation of Ionospheric Effects on Radio Systems) within the ionospheric community has the objectives, embodied in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to develop an increased knowledge of the effects imposed by the ionosphere on practical radio systems, and the development and implementation of techniques to mitigate the deleterious effects of the ionosphere on such systems. This introductory paper summarizes briefly the background and historical context of COST 296 and outlines the main objectives, working methods and structure. It also lists the participating countries and institutions, the Management Committee (MC) Meetings, the Workshops, Short-term Scientific Missions. In addition, the paper discusses the dissemination activities and the collaboration among the participating institutions and researchers, before outlining the content of the Final Report.
Highlights
Background and historical contextTemporal and spatial changes in the upper atmosphere act to limit and degrade the performance of terrestrial and Earth-space radio systems in many different ways
The dissemination methods used in the course of the COST 296 Action have been: (1) posting of general information and working documents on the COST 296 website including set up of an electronic communication network; (2) Workshops, seminars, events, schools for young scientist and conferences organised by the Management Committee (MC) including contributions to other national and international conferences and symposia; (3) Online Proceedings, CD Proceedings and papers in peer-reviewed related scientific and technical Journals
The 3rd General Assembly of the EGU 2006 Session related to COST 296 Action on «Measurements of ionospheric parameters influencing radio systems», 2-April 2006, Vienna, Austria
Summary
COST projects are well suited to developing research co-operation in fields where finance is provided at the national level The success of this approach has been demonstrated in the telecommunications domain in previous COST Actions concerned with the prediction of ionospheric propagation characteristics (Zolesi and Cander, 2008). The COST 238 Action PRIME (Prediction and Retrospective Ionospheric Modeling over Europe) was a four-year research project with objectives to develop regional maps and models over the European ionosphere that are more accurate than internationally available global maps and models (Bradley, 1995). It involved the participation of some 72 scientists and engineers from 17 countries. The major achievements of COST 271 are described in Zolesi and Cander (2004)
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