Space Weather services
Responsible person: Michel Kruglanski
Overall description
Space Weather describes the conditions in space affecting Earth and human
activities. It is mainly driven by the solar activity and is associated to
phenomena such as geomagnetic storms, the Van Allen radiation belts,
ionospheric disturbances, aurora and geomagnetically induced currents at
Earth's surface. Several models and data sets have been produced
(and are still being produced) by the scientific and engineering community
to understand, evaluate and forecast the phenomena and their effects on
technological systems. The access to this information is not always
straightforward in particular for a broader public. Web accessible services
should educate, inform and provide user-friendly tools to different communities
(general public, space engineers and policy makers,...).
Long Term Goal
Provide a number of human and machine readable services which expose the
scientific and technical expertise that has been and will be acquired on
the space environment and its effects.
Short Term Goals
- Operating the European Space Weather Portal initiated during the COST 724 action;
- Developing an integrated user-friendly framework tool to archive, access and manage scientific or engineering data sets used by other STCE projects;
- Establishing a functional link between the two preceding points and the SPENVIS interface.
