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Description
After almost six years of Space Weather operational service for the International Civil Aviation Organization, we present a status of the ionospheric scintillation observations based on ground-based GNSS data collected at CLS for the ACFJ global center. Ionospheric scintillation may cause severe impact for many end-users, especially for the aviation industry. Therefore, we focus on regions impacted by such phenomena, both at low and high latitudes. The recurrence at low latitudes is compared to direct satellite observations. At high latitudes, the correlation with the magnetic storms is analyzed. The latter also has impacts on the low latitude scintillation activity (annihilation of the nominal current or extension of the impacted zones). Foreseen improvements are also described, whether in terms of coverage (e.g. with radio-occultation data, see M. Cherrier’s poster) but also in terms of forecast for both regions (low and high latitudes). These improvements will have positive impact for the end-users of the aviation industry.
