European Resources for Space
Weather Applications
An Overview of Existing and Planned Data, Tools and Services.
Ronald Van der Linden
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Brussels, 17-21 November 2008
Mission: impossible
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COST – ES0803 WG Structure
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WG2 of COST – ES0803
WG 2. Space weather products and services
WG Leaders: R. Van der Linden & H. Lundstedt
SG 2.1: Identification of current space weather resources
WG Leaders: I. Stanislawska & D. Heynderickx
SG 2.2: Market segmentation including cartography and users
requirements
SG 2.3: Feasibility study for new market-oriented products and services
+ at this conference: splinter “Data and Application Services”
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European Resources for Space
Weather Applications
An INCOMPLETE Overview of Existing and Planned Data, Tools and Services,
Easily Accessible, Near-Real-Time and Known to Me
Ronald Van der Linden
5th European Space Weather Week
Brussels, 17-21 November 2008
Why ‘EUROPEAN’?
• autonomy?
• redundancy?
• ease of networking and
existence of frameworks
relevance depends on category:
• data
• tools
• services
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Which Resources?
DATA
Image
analysis
tools
Event
catalogs
Event
warnings
Integrated
service
Data
browsing
tools
Modeling
tools
SERVICES:
• monitoring (nowcasting)
• Post-event analyses (postcasting)
• Forecasting
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Client
Data Sources
– Space
• Solar
• In-situ
– Solar Wind
– Magnetosphere
– Mixed
• GNSS-based ionospheric profiles
– Ground-based
• Solar
– Images
– Indices
• Geomagnetic
• Ionospheric (atmospheric)
• Other
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Data browsing: SolarMonitor
http://www.solarmonitor.org
• solar images with active region information
• contains links to other solar data
• includes per regions details, with event
information
• includes statistical solar flare prediction
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Data browsing: SIDC Latest SW Data
http://sidc.be/LatestSWData/LatestSWData.php
• part of RWC Belgium website
• contains mainly links to external
data sources
• includes all categories of SW data
• needs some updating
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Data browsing: Solar Weather Browser
SWB is a quick-look solar data browser
It’s an answer to a challenge regarding science
data access:
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Solar data & metadata are spread over the
Internet
New observatories produce huge amount of
data
Increasing complexity of instruments &
processing software
It is aimed at:
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Scientists & Operators (Quick contextual
event analysis)
Space weather forecasters
Public (outreach & education)
SWB summary:
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Client-Server design
Displays & combines Sun-centered images
& contextual information: flares, CMEs...
Client available for popular OS (open
source)
Download it at:
http://sidc.be/swb
Data browsing: European Space Weather Portal
http://www.spaceweather.eu
• developed under COST724
• pan-European, multi-site web portal
• multi-language
• strong outreach component
• promising ‘centralized access to
European SW resources’
• contains links to many external
datasets & model websites
• contains some model capacity
(includes SOLPENCO)
• would benefit from some updating,
expansion & homogenisation
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Data browsing: European Space Weather Portal
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Data browsing: other sources
• SWENET, http://www.esa-spaceweather.net/swenet
- see splinter session at this meeting
• EGSO, http://www.egso.org/
- no longer updated (?)
- contains also features catalogs
- follow-up: HELIO (?)
• BASS2000 http://bass2000.bagn.obs-mip.fr/
- data from Meudon, Pic du Midi and THEMIS
• see also other talks in this session
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Integrated service
Digital Upper Atmosphere Server (DIAS)
DIAS consortium was formed around 11 partners
National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden
Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Germany
Space Research Center, Poland
University of Athens, Greece
Blustaff, Italy
BAE Systems, UK
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Republic
Observatorio de l’ Ebre, Spain
the DIAS project was funded by the eContent Programme of EC FP6
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Aim of DIAS
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To improve access to data from all possible ground-based
ionospheric stations in Europe
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To develop a European service for the specification and the
prediction of the state of the ionosphere
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DIAS products
1. Ionospheric Specification
• Ionograms with the results of the automatic scaling
[from the network of DIAS stations in a common layout]
• Ionospheric scaled parameters
[f-plots and ASCII values of foF2, fmin, and M(3000)F2]
• Electron Density Ne(h) profiles over each DIAS station
• Maps for the specification of the ionosphere over Europe
[maps of foF2, M(3000)F2, MUF, Electron Density Ne]
• Daily plot of the Effective Sunspot Number
• Point to point calculation of the MUF for user-defined coordinates
DIAS products
2. Ionospheric Forecast
• Long term ionospheric predictions for the next 3 months
- maps of foF2
- maps of M(3000)F2
- maps of MUF
• Short-term ionospheric forecasting 24 hours ahead
- maps of foF2
- plots of the forecasted foF2 over each DIAS station
• Ionospheric Activity Index (alerts and warnings)
DIAS delivers data, products and services since
August 2006
http://dias.space.noa.gr
Operational Services: SWENET SDAs
http://www.esa-spaceweather.net/swenet/index.html
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Auroras Now!
BINCASTS
GAFS
GIC Forecast
GIC Now!
GIC Simulator
GIFINT
GPS Validation
ISGI
MuSTAnG
Pipeline SWS
SWIMIC
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– SAAPS
DIFS
– SEIS
Ionosfera
– SOARS
Scintillation Quickmaps
SFC
SIDC
SOARS
SPECTRE
STIF
Not all equally active!!
SWIPPA
TSRS
GEISHA
GEOSHAFT
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Operational Service: SPENVIS
http://www.spenvis.oma.be/
Operational Service: International Space
Environment Service (ISES)
http://www.ises-spaceweather.org
Worldwide network for data
exchange and services
Each node (RWC) is an
independent service center
with its own specificity
‘One stop shopping’
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ISES in Europe
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RWC Belgium (Brussels)
RWC Czech Republic (Prague)
Associated RWC France (Toulouse)
RWC Poland (Warsaw)
RWC Russia (Moscow)
RWC Sweden (Lund)
Collborative expert centre: ESA/ESTEC
(Noordwijk)
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Standard RWC Service Contents
Our standard daily messages contain:
• Forecasts of probability of solar flares (next 3 days)
• Forecasts of possibility of proton events (next 3 days)
• Forecasts of 10.7cm flux (next 3 days)
• Forecasts of geomagnetic conditions (next 3 days)
• Overview of current SW conditions
• Summary data of previous day(s)
Other date or information distributed is often RWC-specific and client-related. This may
include e.g.:
• “All-quiet alerts”
• (Fast) warnings of significant events, often based on automated data and image
processing
ESWW5
Brussels, 17-21/11/2008
SIDC@STCE: a European Space
Weather Service
Regional Warning Center Belgium
Operational component &
information gateway
Flares
Monitoring
Forecasts
Fast Alerts
Data & Tools
10cm solar radio flux
Proton events
CME occurrence
Coronal Holes
Feb 08, 2008
Geomagnetism
CME propagation
Coronal hole outflow
Solar Wind predictions
Space
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international
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Signatures of CMEs in EUV
flares
EIT waves
Prominence
eruptions
dimmings
Solar image processing
Limb signatures
SIDC operational product: NEMO
http://sidc.be/nemo/
NEMO = 'Novel EIT wave Machine Observing'
= A software package for automated EIT wave detection
Space Weather interest: EIT wave = CME precursor
Also applied to
STEREO data
Online catalogue for EIT data:
• Monthly scans
• Real-time detection: 2 runs per day
SIDC operational product: CACTus
07h45
• Online LASCO-based catalog September 1997 – January
2007
• Automatic near-real-time detection based on LASCO
• Automated alert distribution in case of important event
• Human verification and follow-up message
10h00
15h00
Associated RWC France (Toulouse)
SFC Solar Forecast Center
daily monitoring of Solar Energetic
Particles Events
J.-J. Valette, Ph. Yaya
CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites)
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• Presently, there is no forecast model of SEPE
• At CLS : development of an empirical approach
based on continuous analysis of the solar
structures and evolution of favorable conditions :
- location & morphology of the sunspots
- magnetic connection to Earth
- past activity: flares, radio bursts, proton flux variation (even under SWPC threshold)
Daily bulletin at SFC (7 days a week)
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Applications & studies
• Application for ESA & CNES during the ATV demo flight
• CNES R&T 2007-2008 study to improve the method and to
evaluate the performance on a statistical basis over the last solar
cycle
Co-operation with LESIA (Paris/Meudon Observatory), CPHT
(École Polytechnique), ONERA (French Aerospace Lab.)
Example of a daily bulletin
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RWC Poland (Warsaw)
Contact:
Actual team:
Tel: + 48 22 8511165
Beata Dziak-Jankowska beata@cbk.waw.pl
+48 22 8403766 ext.371, 380
Grzegorz Juchnikowski grzesiek@cbk.waw.pl
Fax: + 48 22 8403131
Zbigniew Kłos
E-mail: marz@cbk.waw.pl
klos@cbk.waw.pl
Maria Miłodrowska
mm@cbk.waw.pl
Zenka Sawicka
zenka@cbk.waw.pl
Iwona Stanisławska stanis@cbk.waw.pl
http://www.cbk.waw.pl/rwc/
ftp://www.cbk.waw.pl/rwc/idce/
Anna Świątek
ana@cbk.waw.pl
http://rwc.cbk.waw.pl/sw_europe
Łukasz Tomasik
tomasik@cbk.waw.pl
http://rwc.cbk.waw.pl/cost296/
http://rwc.cbk.waw.pl/cost296/wg1
RWC Warsaw is operating as
Heliogeophysical Prediction Service of Space
Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences
and performs duty as:
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data provider,
service provider,
applied science developer related to space weather
data assessment, modeling and prediction
techniques
Data Provider
RWC Warsaw is involved in current collection of large portion of
data received directly from:
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various international observatories in the frame of ISES,
Polish operated geophysical stations inside the country and at
Spitsbergen and Antarctic,
continuously carried out monitoring of the ionosphere with
the ionosonde in Warsaw,
is managing the ionospheric data Dispatch Centre
Service Provider
PRESENT
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On the basis of continuous flow of data daily the expected
influence of heliogeophysical activity on monthly forecasts of
communication conditions trough-out the world is prepared
for Governmental and commercial customers
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The SRC-developed software package for data processing and
system of prediction of HF communication is continuously
modified and new versions are provided to users.
Ionospheric activity (review and forecast) characteristics from about 25 stations, regional maps
Quiet days and disturbances catalogues
HF propagation conditions
Still many not so known services…
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To be continued …
in 4 years
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