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Swarm Space Weather: Variability, Irregularities, and Predictive capabilities for the Dynamic ionosphere (Swarm-VIP-Dynamic)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF OSLO (NO)

The research project aims at providing advanced models of the dynamic ionosphere, which will address plasma irregularities, allow for studies of turbulent structuring, ionospheric plasma dynamics, and will also contribute to the development of forecasting of space weather effects based on in-situ satellite data. The team aims at using novel modelling approaches as well as …

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Swarm for Ocean Dynamics

Prime company: Technical University of Denmark (DK)

Satellite magnetic field observations have the potential to provide information on dynamics, heat content and salinity throughout the ocean. It is well established that the ocean generates a time-varying magnetic field that depends on its motions and electrical conductivity structure.  With ten years of high quality observations available from the Swarm satellite trio, and with …

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F-BURST – mapping of Field -aligned currents in the ionosphere and BURSTYbulk flows in the magnetotail.

Prime company: SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS (SE)

FBURST aims at better understanding the ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling based on multi-spacecraft observations that can monitor the status of the high latitude ionospheric field aligned current system (FAC) and the conditions in the geomagnetic tail. In particular, this project focusses on the fast plasma jets detected at more than 60000 km from the Earth in the …

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JOule heating effects on Ionosphere-thermosphere coupling and Neutral density (JOIN)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF OULU (FI)

Understanding the detailed spatial and temporal dynamics of the space environment is a key task in solar-terrestrial research. This is also a fundamental requisite for providing successful space weather forecasts, such as predicting changes in atmospheric drag experienced by satellites at low-Earth orbits (LEO). The high-latitude auroral ionosphere is connected by magnetic field lines to …

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Highlighting the value of SMOS data in space weather applications

ESA’s SMOS mission data is at the forefront of space weather applications, impacting air navigation, solar flare characterization, space weather modeling, and ionospheric electron content mapping. The mission, characterised by its Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) instrument, provides valuable L-band measurements in this context, as demonstrated in the ESA SMOS-Flares project. Practical demonstrations …

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SMOS data advances space weather and ionospheric research

The first SMOS Space Weather workshop took place in ESRIN last 14 November. Read about highlights from the event, attended by experts in the domain of space weather, solar interactions and the SMOS mission, in this web article and dig into all the presentations available online on the workshop webpage.

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eXperimental jOint inveRsioN

Prime company: GEOMATICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (IT)

The Earth crust represents less than 1% of the volume of our planet but is exceptionally important as it preserves the signs of the geological events that shaped the Earth. This thin layer is the place where the natural resources we need can be accessed (e.g. minerals, critical raw materials, geothermal energy, fresh water, hydrocarbons). …

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SMOS Space Weather

November 14, 2022 @ 13:00 - 17:00 UTC+2
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

The workshop: reported the results of ESA projects exploring usage of SMOS dataset to retrieve L-band Solar Flux and Total Electron Content of the atmosphere collected feedback and interest from the Space Weather Community and Solar scientist about novel operational products and future joint studies focused to assess the impact of SMOS dataset in Space …

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New science challenges from the 2021 SWARM+SCIENCE workshop

The 2021 SWARM+SCIENCE workshop, successfully held on 28–29 June, brought together ESA experts and the Swarm community to discuss the most relevant results of recent ESA projects in the context of magnetosphere – ionosphere – lower atmosphere interactions and to identify the main open questions to be addressed in coming years. The Agency is pleased to …

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Daniel Billett

Daniel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, specializing in magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling. He mainly works with data from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), using it along with other instruments to probe the effects of ionospheric flows on the upper atmosphere. Daniel completed a Masters in Astrophysics at Aberystwyth University, UK, …