Oct 27 – 31, 2025
Europe/Stockholm timezone

User-tailored space weather bulletins developed within ESA’s Space Weather Service Network

Oct 31, 2025, 8:48 AM
18m
Studion

Studion

Oral APL1 - Space Weather Services and Alerts for End-Users: Bridging Forecasting, Infrastructure, and Communication APL1 - Space Weather Services and Alerts for End-Users: Bridging Forecasting, Infrastructure, and Communication

Speaker

Dhiren Kindarkhedia (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB))

Description

To enhance preparedness for space weather (SWE) events, impact or event-based alerts have been implemented for delivering tailored SWE information via email, SMS and prototype dashboards to four of the ESA SWE service user domains covering ‘Aviation’, ‘downstream Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) services’, ‘Power Systems Operations’ and ‘Satellite Operations’. Since April 2022, over 280 messages were issued for aviation, >50 for GNSS, 6 for power systems operations, and >45 for satellite operations, following, where available, domain-specific thresholds and user-agreed protocols.

This presentation illustrates how SWE alerting and dashboard curation have evolved through continuous interaction with the end-users within the frame of coordinated user-support campaigns. Feedback meetings with the end-users are organised to define the content and format of the tailored bulletins, and thresholds for triggering warnings and alerts during SWE events.

For each user domain, tailored dashboards compile relevant SWE data and information for operators, serving as platforms to test new concepts and functionalities, such as dedicated summary tables that provide impact or event-based overviews (nowcast/forecast) of current activity. Using past events with increased space weather (SWE) activity as examples, we demonstrate how tailored bulletins can be delivered across different user domains, showcasing the efficient, responsive, and user-focused integration of SWE services.

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Primary author

Dhiren Kindarkhedia (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB))

Co-authors

Erwin De Donder (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)) Jennifer O'Hara (Royal Observatory of Belgium (KSB-ORB)) Antoine Calegaro (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)) Massamba Sall (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)) Yves Dohogne (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)) Athanassios Katsiyannis (Royal Observatory of Belgium (KSB-ORB)) Corentin Liber (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)) Elisabeth Dom (Royal Observatory of Belgium (KSB-ORB)) Mr Robbe Vansintjan (Royal Observatory of Belgium (KSB-ORB)) Hannah Laurens (Starion GmbH) Alexi Glover (European Space Agency (ESA))

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