E-SWAN School Series
Among its different missions, E-SWAN aims at promoting Space Weather and Space Climate through the dissemination of scientific knowledge, the promotion of education and advanced training and by raising awareness. To reach this goal, the E-SWAN Executive Board is happy to announce the inauguration of the E-SWAN school series: a Space Weather and Space Climate course given yearly during the days preceding the ESWW, at the location of the ESWW conference. The timing and location of the school are intentionally selected to lower our carbon footprint by reducing our travels.
2nd E-SWAN school: data, models and observations relevant for SWx and ionosphere
When
21 and 22 October 2024, 14:00-17:00 CET
Where
Online
Goal
When you see SWx and ionospheric data presented at ESWW2024, you should be able to understand and interpret them.
Registration
Free for ESWW participants but mandatory (registration managed by EOCOM)
More details coming soon...
Previous edition
1st E-SWAN school: Space Weather Data, Models and Services
About the STCE
In 1981, the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) became the World Data Centre for the Sunspot index collecting sunspot data worldwide to calculate the International Sunspot Number (ISN). The ISN is an index used to quantify solar activity. Since the 90’s, the ROB has been involved in space missions, e.g. SOHO, PROBA2, Solar Orbiter, future PROBA3, … Our involvement in several space- and ground-based missions allowed us to improve our know-how in nstrumentation-building, as well as our expertise in solar physics and in the space weather domain. Already in 2001, the Royal Observatory of Belgium started operating a space weather room where researchers continuously collect, analyze and interpret solar data. Indeed, the Solar Influences Data analysis Center (SIDC - http://www.sidc.be/ ) issues every day a space weather bulletin that gives an update on how the Sun behaves, what the impact of a possible solar storm is and what can be expected for the coming days. The services offered by the SIDC have been expanding ever since. In 2006, these were further strengthened by the creation of the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), a collaborative framework in which the sun-space-earth research and services of 3 Belgian scientific institutions were brought together. The STCE gathers in this way expertise in solar research, particle radiation, GNSS, ionosphere and geomagnetic measurements. In 2017, the STCE teamed up with scientific institutes in other European countries, jointly creating the Pan-European Consortium for Aviation Space weather User Services - PECASUS (http://pecasus.eu/) for short. The STCE's expertise in solar observations and research combined with the experience of its GNSS and solar particle radiation group proved to be crucial in the set-up of space weather services for civil aviation. PECASUS went live in November 2019. Since its start, the STCE has strongly invested in space weather courses and training relying on a firm academic and service experience.
