Users engagement (USENG)

Presentation

This WG is dedicated to the involvement of the various actors in SWSC. It works in synergy with EOCom for the organisation of events (e.g. small workshops) dedicated to the user communities, providing inputs on the possible topics to which they can be interested.

Goals

  • Identification of actors and their specific needs
  • Together with EOCom, organise workshops on relevant topics with and for actors
  • Provide suggestions for the SWSC community on how user engagement can be supported and leveraged

Chairs

  • Chair: Veronika Haberle (GeoSphere Austria, Austria)
  • Co-chair: Balazs Asztalos (ELTE, Hungary)

Contact

Members

  • Jaroslav Urbář (IAP CAS, Czech Republic)
  • Yuri Shprits (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)
  • Denis Bousquet (AXA XL)
  • Rui Pinto (IRAP U. Toulouse)
  • Manuela Aguzzi (Space Applications Services)
  • Jennifer O’Hara  (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
  • Petra Vanlommel (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
  • Lenka Zychova (BIRA)
  • Joseph Eggington (EDF UK)
  • Adrian LaMoury (Imperial College London)

 

Overview of Space Weather Service Providers

In this section a list of existing space weather service providers is under development. Especially for space weather end-users it can be hard to find existing space weather service providers easily. The aim of the following list is to give interested end-users an overview on which providers already exist with a short description about the service. This list is non-exhaustive and grows as information is provided by interested service providers themselves. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in case you want to list your service or fill this survey: https://forms.office.com/e/EgRHmsgQ9p

 Name  Contact Details  Provided Service
Space Weather Education Centre (SWEC) of the STCE   https://www.stce.be/SWEC     Trainings and courses on space weather and ionospheric and its impact, e.g. Space Weather Introductory Course, Space Weather impacts on aviation, tailored courses on request. 
Austrian Space Weather Office   https://helioforecast.space Now- and forecasting of space weather events that potentially affect Austria but also central Europe (e.g. aurora in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, northern Italy)
UK Met Office - Met Office Space Weather Operation Centre (MOSWOC)   https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/specialist-forecasts/space-weather
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Contact: Simon Machin		 Space weather services and advice to support the UK government, Critical National Infrastructure, Industry and the public. This includes advice /services and support to the following sectors: transport, satellite operations, defence, energy, emergency response, telecommunications, and GNSS users. This is provided through a range of written products, impact matrices and visualised/tailored model output. 
 electronic Space Weather upper atmosphere (eSWua) at INGV  eswua.ingv.it
www.spaceweather.it
mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.		 The eSWua system provides data and products for ionospheric monitoring. Its network of ground-based instruments includes Ionospheric Scintillation Monitor Receivers (ISMRs) and ionosondes. These instruments operate continuously, 24/7, and are strategically distributed worldwide, covering high, low, and middle geomagnetic latitudes. Beside the near-real time data from these instruments, the eSWua system offers products for the nowcasting and forecasting of the Total Electron Content (TEC) with coverage at regional (Mediterranean area), European, and global scales. It also provides nowcasting and forecasting maps of various ionospheric parameters (e.g., foF2, MUF) at regional (Italy) and European levels. The system supports the operational space weather services provided by the INGV, such as the PECASUS consortium for the ICAO and the SWESNET project (ESA).