Memo and miscellaneous

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Recent / forthcoming meetings / events / launches / deadlines:
Meetings and Event (at NASCOM), Space Calendar (at JPL)
NASA's Missions Highlights (Launch schedule), ESA - Launchers Home, Catalog of ISAS Missions

2013 AGU fall meeting : Dec. 9 ∼ 13, 2013, San Fransisco, CA,
deadlines: abstract submission, August 6.
SPD 2013 : July 8 ∼ 12, 2013, Bozeman, MT,
deadlines: early registration and abstract submission, May 3, 2013.
LWS/SDO workshop : March 3 ∼ 8, 2013, Cambridge, MD
launch(es) : SDO (launched !!, 10:23 a.m. EST, February 11, 2010)
Total solar eclipse(s):
   Aug. 21, 2017 (* visible from N.America), Mar. 09, 2016 (* visible from Pacific), Mar. 20, 2015, Apr. 29, 2014 (* annular),
   Nov. 03, 2013 (* hybrid), May. 10, 2013 (* annular),
   Nov. 13, 2012, May 20, 2012 (* annular), Jul. 11, 2010, Jul. 22, 2009, Aug. 1, 2008
Transit of Venus : Jun. 5 22UT ∼ 6 05UT, 2012

Links

research-related

journals:
ADS Astronomy Query Form at Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service ;
arXiv (AstroPh, find, Solar and Stellar Astrophys.), Sol.shys. eprint archive ;
ApJ, ApJS, ApJL, Solar Physics, JGR-Space Physics, GRL, A&A (at Springer and at EDP), Pub.Astro.Soc.Japan, Adv.Sp.Res., Living reviews in solar physics, JASTP ; J. Comp. Phys., SIAM (Soc. Indust. Appl. Math) Journals online, Phys. Rev. Lett. ; Kluwer, Elsevier Science, Springer
societies:
AGU / SPA, AAS / SPD, Astro. Soc. Japan ; SolarNews, SPA newsletter, Renrakukai-shoko, Tennet, JpGU mailnews
latest data / now-casts and forecasts:
HMI latest images, AIA latest FITS files, The Very Latest SOHO Images (real time, gif anim.), Hinode latest images and quick-look, STEREO latest images, ACE real time plot ; LMSAL (the Sun Today, Latest events, forecasts, sungate / iSol / HEK), SolarMonitor.org, SpaceWeather.com, NOAA/SWPC (spaceweather.gov), ESA-SpaceWeather.net, SpaceWeather.EU ; Space Weather info. Center (SWC) / NICT, HBF-funded Space weather forecast at STEL / Nagoya Univ., Space Env. Research Center, Kyushu Univ.
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO):
Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), EUV Variability Experiment (EVE)
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):
MDI Data Services (at Stanford), EIT (at NASCOM), LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph) and CME catalog at NASA / GSFC / CDAW, UVCS (Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer), SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation), CDS (Coronal diagnostic Spectrometer), CELIAS (Charge, Element and Isotope Analysis System), COSTEP (Comprehensive Suprathermal and Energetic Particle Analyzer), ERNE (Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron experiment), GOLF (Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies), SWAN (Solar Wind Anisotropies) at FMI and at LATMOS, VIRGO (Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations)
Stanford Solar Observatories Group:
Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI), Wilcox Solar Observatory (WSO) (Photospheric Field Synoptic Charts, Source Surface Synoptic Charts), Synoptic Sun, Virtual Solar Observatory, Stanford SOLAR Center
NASA:
NASA Science, Solar System Exploration ; NASA facilities and centers, Ames Research Center (ARC), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL) ; CDAWeb (Coordinated Data Analysis Web), master catalog of National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), Solar Data Analysis Center, OMNIWeb, COHOWeb, trajectories of spacecraft, planets and comets ; National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC/NOAA), Solar Geophysical Data (SGD/NOAA) ; NASA advanced Supercomputing (NAS) division
space probes and observatories:
Hinode / Solar-B (data at ISAS DARTS, LMSAL), STEREO, PROBA-2 (SWAP), Ulysses (NASA / JPL), Yohkoh SXT, TRACE (movies), RHESSI, Wind, ACE, SMEI's page at NSO / AFRL and UCSD / CASS, IBEX(Interstellar Boundary Explorer), Pioneer, Voyager, THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms), GOES(Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite) ; Solar Probe
ground-based observatories and related institutes:
Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO), HAO/UCAR/NCAR, ; SOLIS (Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun) (Full-disk Images, synoptic maps), Vacuum Telescope data archives, GONG (Global Oscillation Network Group), and ATST (Advanced Technology Solar Telescope) ; NJIT/BBSO and NST and Global High-Resolution H-alpha, THEMIS(Heliographic Telescope for the study of the Magnetism and Instabilities on the Sun) at .fr and .es, Institute for Solar Physics, Sweden, Kanzelöhe Observatory, Austria (H-alpha), Mt. Wilson Solar Tower, Solar Flare Telescope, NAOJ/Mitaka, ; NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)
radio observatories:
Interplanetary radio scintillation (IPS) observation at STEL / Nagoya Univ., Nobeyama Radioheliograph, EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter), National Radio Astronomy Observatory, National Centre for Radio Astrophys., India
agencies, groups and institutes:
ISAS and JAXA, ESA, Max-Planck Gesellschaft, IZMIRAN.ru ; LEIF.org, Predictive Science Inc. (PSI), Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophys. Lab. (LMSAL), Space Sci. Lab. (SSL) / UC Berkeley, Dept. of Phys. UA Huntsville, Sun and Heliosphere / NorthWest Research Associates, Sol. Phys. div. / Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Phys. (LASP) / Univ. of Colorado Boulder, NRL / Solar Phys. Branch, Community Spectro-Polarimetric Analysis Center (CSAC) at High Altitude Observatory (HAO) / University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), National Solar Observatory (NSO), Montana State Univ./Sol. Phys. ; MPI für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIAp), PPARC's old page at Science and Technology Facilities Council ; Solar and Plasma Astrophysics Division of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Solar-Terrestrial Environment Lab. (STEL) / Nagoya University, Kwasan and Hida Observatories / Kyoto University, Dept. of astronomy / University of Tokyo, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Information technology center / Nagoya University
glossary, terminology etc.:
at solar-center.stanford.edu, swpc.noaa.gov and Forcast-verification glossary
research projects and programs:
LWS (at NASA Science), ILWS, CISM, CCMC, MURI, CAWSES, IHY 2007 ; NSF
databases, languages, libraries, etc. for scientific uses:
CHIANTI (at Naval Res. Lab.), SolarSoft (at LMSAL.com), jHelioviewer ; doc. at intel.com about ifort 11.1 and icc / icpc 11.1, gfortran (wiki), CoArray (at Rice Univ.) and doc. at intel.com, OpenMP.org, MPI (message passing interface) Forum, MPI at intel.com, NVIDIA developer website (many GPU/CUDA-related items) ; Numerical Recipes, NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ; FITS support (at GSFC), cfitsio and doc., HDFgroup.org (user's guide) ; IDL (at ittvis.com), IRAF project (at NOAO), Vis5d, matlab (at mathworks.com), PGPLOT
graphic (conversion) tools:
Image Magick (command line options), ffmpeg.org (docs, faq), Netpbm (program directory),
useful tools for HTTPs:
AniS/ FlAniS, VRML plug-ins detector (and many useful info., at NIST.gov) ; htmlcodetutorial.com, html tools at w3.org (html checker)
MS-Windows related:
Win.Tips (atmarkit.co.jp), forest.impress.co.jp, vector.co.jp
wikibooks.orgs
MPI, Latex
local info. etc.
- Stanford top page, Marguerite (time table etc. and live service map), eateries / dining, bookstore
- local map (at maps.google), local weather (at wunderground.com)
- 551.org, VTA (timetables : 22 and 522), Caltrain (timetable), MUNI, BART, SamTrans
- Nijiya, Mitsuwa; Kinokuniya
- DirecTV program for 94305 (at aol.com)
others
- Kyodo, Jiji, allatanys, Yomiuri, 373 ; the Associated Press, CSmonitor.com, LIFE.com, Day in pictures at BBC, Photo of the day at National Geographic
- earthquake info. at JMA and USGS (bay area)
- wikipedia; google, msn (bing), yahoo
- google language tools (translate.google.com jpn/eng)
- My old web page at STELab

Memo and miscellaneous

years
2013=M146,T102,S88,H25, 2000=M133,T89,S75,H12, 1989=S64,H01, 1988=S63, 1926=M59,T15,S01, 1912=M45,T01 Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig
DST begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
2013 March 10 - Nov. 3, 2012 March 11 - Nov. 4, 2011 March 13 - Nov. 6, 2010 March 14 - Nov. 7,
sunset, sunrise etc. at Palo Alto, CA (at gaisma.com)
unit and metric system : beautiful mks/cgs and awful ....
1 pound = 453.59 g 1 gallon = 3.7854 l = 231 cubic inches ; 1 pint = 1/8 gallon = 473.2 ml 1 inch = 2.54 cm ; 1 foot = 30.48 cm = 12 inches ; 1 yard = 0.9144 m = 3 feet = 36 inches 1 mile = 1609.344 m = 8 furlongs = 1760 yards = 5280 feet C = (F - 32) / 1.8 ; F = C * 1.8 + 32 170 cm = 5 ft. 7 in. ; 65 kg = 143.3 pounds 1 mile/gal. = 0.425 km/l ; 30 mpg = 12.75 km/l ; 23.5 mpg = 10 km/l 1 mile/hour = 0.447 m/s ; 30 mph = 13.4 m/s = 48.28 km/s 1 inch Hg = 3386.4 Pa ; 30 inHg = 1013.2 hPa -17.8C = 0F, 0C = 32F, 10C = 50F, 20C = 68F, 30C = 86F, 37.7C = 100F
tools at finance.google.com
- currency conversion
  US Dollar, Euro, British Pound in Japanese Yen Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Chinese Yuan (renminbi), Indian Rupee in USD USD in Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Chinese Yuan (renminbi), Indian Rupee
- stock etc.
  Dow Jones Industrial Ave., S&P500 ; Nikkei 255
travel etc.
- American, Delta, Continental, United, Northwest, Southwest, JetBlue, ANA, JAL ; SFO, SJC, OAK ; SuperShuttle ; JTB USA (in Japanese), Expedia, Orbitz, OneTravel; Hertz, enterprise, National, Alamo ; Amtrak, Greyhound ; travel.state.gov, National Park Service; Yahoo Driving Directions, Google Map
- airport-codes :
  SFO=San Francisco, SJC=San Jose, LAX=Los Angeles, SAN=San Diego, LAS=Las Vegas, SEA=Seattle/Tacoma, YVR=Vancouver, PHX=Phoenix, DEN=Denver, ORD=O'Hare/Chicago, IAD=Dulles/D.C., EWR=Newark, JFK=J.F.K./New York, NYC=all airports near the city of N.Y., BOS=Boston ; NRT=Narita/Chiba, HND=Haneda/Tokyo, TYO=all airports near Tokyo, KIX=Kansai/Osaka, ITM=Itami/Osaka-Hyogo, OSA=all airports near Osaka, NGO=Chubu/Nagoya, FUK=Fukuoka, KOJ=Kagoshima ; ICN=Seoul/Incheon, PEK=Beijing, DEL=Indira Gandhi/New Delhi, BOM=Mumbai(Bombay), FRA=Frankfurt, LHR=Heathrow/London
States, D.C. and territories, and National Parks Quarters ; 52 Denver(*) and 1 Philadelphia(#): US Mint
*Delaware, *Pennsylvania, *New Jersey, *Georgia, *Connecticut *Massachusetts, *Maryland, *South Carolina, *New Hampshire, *Virginia *New York, *North Carolina, *Rhode Island, *Vermont, *Kentucky *Tennessee, *Ohio, *Louisiana, *Indiana, *Mississippi *Illinois, *Alabama, *Maine, *Missouri, *Arkansas *Michigan, *Florida, *Texas, *Iowa, *Wisconsin *California, *Minnesota, *Oregon, *Kansas, *West Virginia *Nevada, *Nebraska, *Colorado, *North Dakota, #South Dakota *Montana, *Washington, *Idaho, *Wyoming, *Utah *Oklahoma, *New Mexico, *Arizona, *Alaska, *Hawaii ------- *D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, Virgin Islands, N. Mariana ------- Hot Springs NP, Yellowstone NP, *Yosemite NP, Grand Canyon NP, *Mt. Hood Gettysburg, Glacier, Olympic NP, Vicksburg, Chickasaw El Yunque, Chaco, Acadia NP., Hawai'i Vlocanoes NP, *Denali NP White Mt. / Perry, Great Basin NP., Fort McHenry, Mt. Rushmore
other links.