STCE workshop - Natural Hazard Assessment for Aviation

Session

Afternoon session

2 Jun 2015, 13:45

Meridian room (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

Description

Chair: B. Nicolai

19. Solar Influences Data analysis Centre (SIDC) and its Space Weather Services

J. Andries (ROB)

02/06/2015, 13:45

STCE workshop - Natural Hazard Assessment for Aviation

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)

02/06/2015, 14:10

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)

02/06/2015, 14:35

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)

02/06/2015, 15:00

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)

02/06/2015, 15:25

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...