Abstract
This review paper presents the main achievements of the near Earth space plasma monitoring under COST 296 Action. The outputs of the COST 296 community making data, historical and real-time, standardized and avail- able to the ionospheric community for their research, applications and modeling purposes are presented. The con- tribution of COST 296 with the added value of the validated data made possible a trusted ionospheric monitoring for research and modeling purposes, and it served for testing and improving the algorithms producing real-time data and providing data users measurement uncertainties. These value added data also served for calibration and validation of space-borne sensors. New techniques and parameters have been developed for monitoring the near Earth space plasma, as time dependent 2D maps of vertical total electron content (vTEC), other key ionospheric parameters and activity indices for distinguishing disturbed ionospheric conditions, as well as a technique for im- proving the discrepancies of different mapping services. The dissemination of the above products has been devel- oped by COST 296 participants throughout the websites making them available on-line for real-time applications.
Highlights
The ionosphere is a rather complex and highly variable medium, and to be able to pre-Real-time data are necessary for operational ionospheric mitigation
The aim of this paper is to review the main results achieved by COST 296 working group WG-1«Ionospheric monitoring and modeling» under the working package WP1.1 «Near Earth space plasma monitoring»
Using the potential of the different observing and monitoring systems belonging to the participating institutions in COST 296, two campaigns have been carried out, a campaign to follow ionospheric effects of the annular eclipse occurred over Europe on 3 October 2005 and a campaign contributing to the objectives of the third CAWSES Global Tidal campaign from 1 June to 14 August 2007
Summary
The ionosphere is a rather complex and highly variable medium, and to be able to pre-. Ionospheric monitoring in the European area is done by a network of ionosondes and, in recent years, by a network of high-accuracy Global Positioning Systems receivers (GPS), which work primarily for. The COST 296 action joins scientists from all the European institutions operating ionosonde systems (vertical ionospheric sounding instruments, essentially radars but the newest being a combination of radar and Doppler interferometer). These systems work in a continuous monitoring regime, covering essentially the whole of Europe, including Scandinavia’s Sodankyla station.
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