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Overview of a Graduate Course Delivered in Turkey, Emphasizing Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Space Weather

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Space physics is a young discipline in Turkey. Since 1970 various national near-Earth space research activities and several international collaborations have been conducted in Turkey and some of these are continuing. In May 2004 a four-week Graduate Course on “Space and Atmospheric Physics I and II” was held at the Tübitak Feza Gürsey Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. This paper explains the background behind this initiative, and gives an introduction to the topics that were covered during the course, especially emphasizing how solar-terrestrial physics is applied to space weather. During the course the students, in parallel with the lectures delivered, performed projects based on the curriculum, and using information available on the Internet and in the literature. A resumé of their results concerning the well-known “space weather” event at the end of 2003 is given.

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  1. Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Ringlaan-3-Avenue Circulaire, 1180, Brussels, Belgium

    N. B. Crosby

  2. International Space University, Parc d’Innovation, Illkirch, 67400, France

    M. J. Rycroft

  3. CAESAR Consultancy, 35 Millington Road, Cambridge, CB3 9HW, UK

    M. J. Rycroft

  4. Department of Aerospace Engineering, ODTU/METU, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

    Y. Tulunay

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Crosby, N.B., Rycroft, M.J. & Tulunay, Y. Overview of a Graduate Course Delivered in Turkey, Emphasizing Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Space Weather. Surv Geophys 27, 319–364 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-005-6204-3

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