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STCE workshop - Natural Hazard Assessment for Aviation

June 2, 2015
Royal Observatory of Belgium
Europe/Brussels timezone

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26. Introduction
M. Kruglanski (BIRA-IASB)
6/2/15, 9:45 AM
3. International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO): Space Weather Activities
B. Nicolae (Belgocontrol)
6/2/15, 10:00 AM
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is the UN's specialized agency responsible for developing international standards and recommendations for aviation. At the 12-yearly MET Divisional Meeting in 2002, a recommendation was made to assess in consultation with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) the need for providing information on solar radiation storms. Since then,...
4. Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR)
D. Hart (Eurocontrol), E. Robert (Eurocontrol)
6/2/15, 10:25 AM
The European and Global air transport environment is gradually evolving towards a fully time ordered system instead of the distance based system of managing flying aircraft in European and Global skies. The supporting Air Traffic Management functions will need to adapt from a technical point of view and from the perspective how these services are delivered to the users. Emilien ROBERT and...
21. Radar and lightning nowcasting products for aviation safety authorities: BELLS, INCA-BE and VBIRD
D. Poelman (KMI-IRM), M. Reyniers (KMI-IRM)
6/2/15, 11:15 AM
Since mid 2013, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium sends the output of the INCA-BE system in real-time to Belgocontrol, the Belgian air traffic safety authority. INCA-BE is a nowcasting system for the analysis and nowcasts of several meteorological fields, like temperature, humidity, wind, cloudiness, precipitation and some derived fields like precipitation type and visibility. It...
22. The support to aviation control service, an overview and recent developments
N. Theys (BIRA-IASB)
6/2/15, 11:40 AM
The Support to Aviation Control Service (SACS; http://sacs.aeronomie.be) is an on-line service displaying in near real-time satellite observations of volcanic ash and SO2. Relying both on UV-visible (OMI, GOME-2, OMPS) and thermal infrared (IASI, AIRS) satellite sounders, it is aimed at aviation authorities, atmospheric scientists and volcanologists. In addition to the near real-time data, the...
23. Running the Lagrangian dispersion model, FLEXPART in an operational context at RMI
A. Delcloo (KMI-IRM)
6/2/15, 12:05 PM
FLEXPART is a Lagrangian particle dispersion transport model which is originally designed for calculating the long-range and mesoscale dispersion of air pollutants from point sources. Through the years, these type of models have proven to be a very useful tool in an operational context for the protection of the population in case of accidents in a nuclear power plant. In the meantime, FLEXPART...
19. Solar Influences Data analysis Centre (SIDC) and its Space Weather Services
J. Andries (ROB)
6/2/15, 1:45 PM
STCE workshop - Natural Hazard Assessment for Aviation
Afternoon session
The Solar Influences Data analysis Centre is the Solar Physics and Space Weather department of the Royal Observatory of Belgium. The Sun is the main driver of Space Weather and with several instruments keeping a close eye on the Solar activity every day, the centre is delivering key information to the assessment and forecasting of Space Weather conditions. In its capacity of Regional Warning...
10. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Space Weather
N. Bergeot (ROB)
6/2/15, 2:10 PM
The GNSSs (e.g. GPS, Galileo, Glonass, Beidou) allow the determination of the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) between a satellite and a ground receiver. It is thus possible to monitor the impact of the space weather on the upper part of our atmosphere (i.e the ionosphere) using a network of GNSS stations. This paper presents GNSS-based TEC maps delivered from different agencies...
12. Solar Energetic Particle Events
M. Dierckxsens (BIRA-IASB)
6/2/15, 2:35 PM
Solar energetic particle (SEP) events consist mainly of protons, electrons and He ions and are observed as sudden flux increases of several orders of magnitude above background levels. These events result from the acceleration of particles by solar flares and shocks generated by coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Specifically, earthward-directed SEP events that are magnetically well connected can...
24. Benefit of a LIDAR-ceilometer network for aviation
Q. Laffineur (KMI-RMI)
6/2/15, 3:00 PM
The Eyjafjallajökull and the Grimsvötn volcano's in Iceland erupted in April 2010 and in May 2011 respectively causing massive disruption to the European air traffic. These eruptions highlighted the need for automatic LIDAR-ceilometer (ALC) monitoring stations capable of routinely estimating the vertical profile of aerosols. The ALC primarily designed for cloud base height detection has...
13. Space Situational Awareness (SSA) space weather end-user (SWE) strategy
E. De Donder (BIRA-IASB)
6/2/15, 3:25 PM
During ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Space Weather (SWE) preparatory programme, a precursor SSA SWE service network has been set up by bringing together a number of pre-existing applications and products from previous ESA activities and national initiatives, and by providing the SSA SWE portal (http://swe.ssa.esa.int) as main access for the potential users of the space weather...
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