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

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Space Weather

Jun 2, 2015, 2:10 PM
25m
Meridian room (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

Meridian room

Royal Observatory of Belgium

Ringlaan 3 1180 Uccle

Speaker

N. Bergeot (ROB)

Description

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 with different latencies (i.e. minutes to days), area extents (i.e. local to global), grid resolutions (i.e. few degrees to lower than 1°) and time scales (i.e. few minutes to hours). Additionally, we will discuss the effectiveness of GNSS-based products especially during disturbed Space Weather conditions (i.e. ionospheric storms).

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