COST ES0803

WG2 report

National contributions to activities

Received reports from T. Breus, D. Heynderickx, A. Chilingarian, N. Jakowski, H. Haralambous, M. Messerotti, H. Lundstedt

National contributions to activities: Armenia

• At Mt Aragats in Armenia, data is available cosmic ray fluxes at Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC), with mirror sites in US and Germany

• Also data from (expanded) network SEVAN• Preparing for forecasting services

National contributions to activities: Germany

• Further developed operational service SWACI: now includes global TEC maps

• SWACI data used for ionospheric corrections in Single-Frequency Precise Point Positioning

• operates a network of high rate GPS receivers over Europe providing scintillation data at an update rate of 1 minute

National contributions to activities: CYPRUS

• Installed Atmospheric Weather Electromagnetic System for Observation, Modeling, and Education (AWESOME) receiver to conduct VLF studies and become part of a worldwide AWESOME scientific network.

• Preparing to install a scintillation monitor in collaboration with the universities of Nottingham and Bath.

• Preparing to install an HF spectral occupancy system that will facilitate the study of Space Weather driven effects on the HF spectrum

National contributions to activities: ITALY

• a catalogue of decimetric solar radio events detected by the Trieste Solar Radio System for the study of solar RFI in wireless communications and GPS. Has been prepared and made available through the HELIO service named "Heliophysics Event Catalogue (HEC)".

• At the EGU 2011 a session "Space Weather Informatics: techniques and applications“ was organised.

National contributions to activities: SWEDEN

1. Swedish Agencies and Managing Space Weather : participated at the workshop on Managing Critical Disasters in the Transatlantic Domain - The Case of a Geomagnetic Storm, February 23-24, 2010 in Boulder USA, arranged by FEMA, NOAA (USA) and MSB (Sweden) and follow-up activities (see http://www.lund.irf.se/HeliosHome/femamsb.html).

(MSB = Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) 2. Swedish Armed Forces and Space Weather ForecastsA Report “Test service of space weather” was produced for the Swedish

Defence Research Agency; H. Lundstedt will give a lecture on December 2, 2010 at the Swedish Armed Forces METOC Centre; A Space Weather Forecast Service for Exercises is Planned to be operative in January 2011.

National contributions to activities: BELGIUM

1. Made available data from PROBA2 through the website of SIDC2. After participation to Paris Workshop, continued discussions with some

users to establish their needs.3. At KULEUVEN, project was started to use massively parallel computing for

space weather modelling4. Part of GNSS services are operational again after interruption5. Redevelopment of solar observations in Uccle (optical) and Humain (radio)

Reports from SWG leaders

• Daniel Heynderickx• Iwona Stansliawska• Mike Hapgood