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Description
The L5 Project within the Space Weather Observations Program Division (SWOPD) between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will contribute the Compact Coronagraph 3 (CCOR-3), built by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Vigil mission to the Lagrange 5 (L5) point. In addition, the L5 project will ingest, distribute, and archive all Vigil products for SWOPD user community. The off-SEL coronagraph data from CCOR-3 is expected to improve space weather forecasting of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA)-Enlil predictions of CME arrival at Earth. The in-situ plasma and magnetic field data from L5 can be used to monitor the evolution of co-rotating structures with lead times of days before any potential impact on Earth. Previous Research has shown pathways to using particle data and heliospheric imaging data to further improve forecasting of space weather. NOAA is also interested in the planned Vigil Photospheric Magnetograph Imager (PMI) for the improvement of solar wind modeling and for the longer lead time solar flare predictions it will enable. We will present the NOAA current uses of L5 data from NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission and NOAA’s plans for future observations and space weather product improvements from Vigil mission products.
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