The ESWW plenary sessions form a key component of the conference. They are designed to be open to all attendees and so of interest to the wider space weather community. For ESWW2023, the four plenary session topics are based on the overarching conference theme, ‘Bringing Space Weather, Space Climate, and Engineering Together’.
The ESWW Parallel Sessions form a core part of the conference. The following topics will be available for Parallel Sessions congruent with the « Bringing Space Weather, Space Climate, and Engineering Together » theme of ESWW2023.
Notifications of abstract acceptance as oral or poster presentations were sent out to all selected abstracts that were submitted before the 29th of June 2023. If you have not received any message: send an email to esww2023@gmail.com
Conveners will start evaluating all abstracts submitted between 30th of June and 13th of September after the poster deadline and you will receive a notification soon after.
Instructions to oral/poster presenters: coming soon!
The full list of plenary sessions with the selected oral presentations is available here (updated 08/09/23):
The four plenary session topics for ESWW2023 are:
Session Conveners: Rui Pinto, Maxime Grandin, Sophie Chabanski (E-SWAN Working Group 8 – Sustainability)
Description: With space weather and space climate, we seek to understand and mitigate the adverse effects of the space environment on human activities. However, there is a growing awareness of the reverse effect: our activities have a significant impact on the environment in terms of carbon footprint, resource consumption, biodiversity loss and, more globally, the impact of humans on the terrestrial and space environments. These impacts increasingly threaten the sustainability of our activities in space, and human society as a whole. In this session, we invite scientists and stakeholders to share their perception of these critical issues and to present solutions that will allow science to advance in a world of limited resources, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The goal is to address the diagnosis (how we are impacting the environment), the solutions that have been developed, and the lessons learned. The session will consist of a number of invited and contributed presentations. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: the carbon footprint of research activities and research infrastructure, light pollution of the sky, dealing with the growing amount of space debris, instrument development and life cycle-assessment with limited resources, and more.
Full List of Oral Presentations:
| 946 | Thursday | 08:47-09:06 | Saint Exupéry | The carbon footprint of astrophysical research | KNÖDLSEDER Jürgen et al. | Oral |
| 668 | Thursday | 09:06-09:25 | Saint Exupéry | Use of space reshapes sustainability sciences | PALMROTH Minna et al. | Oral |
| 597 | Thursday | 09:25-09:38 | Saint Exupéry | Collision risk in Space – an insurer view | BOUSQUET Denis et al. | Oral |
| 784 | Thursday | 09:38-09:51 | Saint Exupéry | Radio astronomy: the challenge of Radio Frequency Interferences | GRIESSMEIER Jean-Mathias et al. | Oral |
| 876 | Thursday | 09:51-10:04 | Saint Exupéry | The harmful effects of anthropogenic light pollution on natural light sources | DEVERCHERE Philippe et al. | Oral |
Full List of Poster Presentations: Will appear after the 13th September poster deadline
Session Conveners: Hermann Opgenoorth, Carine Briand, Sarah Gibson
Session Chairs: Hermann Opgenoorth, Sarah Gibson
Description: While satellites can provide a range of both solar and heliospheric remote-sensing observations as well as in-situ measurements of many detailed plasma parameters important to the understanding of physical processes at the Sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere, the many ground-based networks of instruments provide crucial background information on the temporal and spatial context of the satellite observations, and also provide the only means to monitor the response of the global system in terms of energy content and dynamics of the involved global current systems, particle populations, and impacts on the neutral atmosphere. Ground-based observations and measurements enable data sets that are difficult or expensive to reliably obtain from space, e.g. solar radio arrays or large-aperture telescopes, and provide many observations with higher cadence and data latency than space-based platforms. We invite presentations on traditional or novel approaches for the use of combined ground-based and satellite data for the benefit of space weather science, monitoring or predictions. The range of topics spans from the use of global indices for space weather modelling to the more local coordination of satellite and ground-based observations along the same magnetic field line, or along similar latitudes or L-shells for terrestrial analyses, or for solar and heliospheric in-situ/remote-sensing model-data coordination in support of space weather research and prediction. We also invite presentations addressing successes or difficulties in creating and maintaining ground-based instrumentation and observing networks, the provision of coordinated datasets and other important issues of ground-based observations in support of space weather modelling and operations. While satellite missions often are provided through national and global strategies, with support from international space agencies, ground-based networks are often provided and maintained based on individual or institutional efforts and coordinated on a rather ad-hoc basis. We also invite presentations with insights in best practices for international coordination of ground-based assets in space science and space weather.
Full List of Oral Presentations:
| 840 | Wednesday | 08:47-09:02 | Saint Exupéry | Met Office use of ground-based observations in operational space weather modelling and prediction and associated operational challenges | BOCQUET Francois Xavier et al. | Oral |
| 767 | Wednesday | 09:02-09:17 | Saint Exupéry | U.S. National Science Foundation Support of Ground-based Space Weather Observations | SHARMA Mangala et al. | Oral |
| 753 | Wednesday | 09:17-09:32 | Saint Exupéry | Joys and challenges in the maintenance of a magnetometer network – perspectives by the IMAGE consortium | KAURISTIE Kirsti et al. | Oral |
| 720 | Wednesday | 09:32-09:47 | Saint Exupéry | Open Science in Heliophysics and Space Weather | CECCONI Baptiste et al. | Oral |
Full List of Poster Presentations: Will appear after the 13th September poster deadline
Session Conveners: Marcin Latocha, Issaad Kacem, Klaus Sievers
Session Chairs: Marcin Latocha, Issaad Kacem, Klaus Sievers
Description: Space weather events have caused disruptions to aviation communications, navigation and surveillance systems, and increased radiation exposure at aircraft cruising levels in a non-acute fashion. The aviation industry is becoming increasingly aware of these impacts. On 7th November 2019, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) launched a real-time worldwide space weather service for aviation. Currently, four global centers provide the service, issuing advisories in case of space weather events with potential impacts on aviation. The service targets three broad space weather impact areas: High-Frequency Communications, GNSS-based navigation and surveillance and increased radiation aboard aircraft. Satellite communications have been identified at this point as a fourth impact area, but have not yet been implemented. The ICAO service started when the solar activity was low, but the recent increase (ascending phase of solar cycle 25) raises the need for mature, qualitatively good, possibly validated, and harmonized advisories to further improve the safety and operations of the aviation system against more intense solar events. For this last reason, it is important to draw conclusions not only on the past effort on validations, comparisons, and harmonization activities but also on specifications as currently defined for the ICAO service. Integration of additional observations and models that are aligned with the aviation needs (including satellite communication) would contribute to improvements of the service. This session aims to give an update on the ongoing efforts, and to sketch plans for future activities in order to bridge the gap between science of space weather impacts and its translation into the needs of the aviation industry. In this regard, feedback from the aviation community is particularly welcomed. We encourage contributions from researchers and engineers working on the various impacts of space weather on aviation, solutions/mitigations for these impacts on aviation, as well as providers and users of current space weather services for aviation.
Full List of Oral Presentations:
| 944 | Friday | 08:50-09:10 | Saint Exupéry | The ICAO Space Weather Information service | WIGNIOLLE Stéphanie et al. | Oral |
| 886 | Friday | 09:10-09:25 | Saint Exupéry | A Discussion of the Threshold for Issuing Space Weather Advisories at ICAO | ISHII Mamoru et al. | Oral |
| 606 | Friday | 09:25-09:40 | Saint Exupéry | Effects from ionospheric scintillation activity on navigation service for aviation over Canadian high latitudes. Analysis of recent events | NIKITINA Lidia et al. | Oral |
| 813 | Friday | 09:40-09:55 | Saint Exupéry | EACCC Space Weather Exercise 2023 | DE HAAN Johannes et al. | Oral |
| 734 | Friday | 09:55-10:10 | Saint Exupéry | KNMI: PECASUS member and MET ANSP | VAN DAM Kasper et al. | Oral |
Full List of Poster Presentations: Will appear after the 13th September poster deadline
Session Conveners: Mathieu Barthélémy, Jaan Praks, Vincent Maget
Description: New Space philosophy, which is underpinned by novel and innovative satellite development concepts, has generated keen interest. It is therefore a timely opportunity for hosting space weather instruments and for dedicating smallsat missions (from Cubesats to Nanosats) to space weather monitoring. These new developments enable innovative architectures and opportunities for new actors, towards provision of extensive space weather data. The relatively low cost of these satellites, as well as their simplified instrument-to-platform interfacing, allows the possibility of launching large constellations of complementary space weather instruments and of performing multi-point measurements. Subsequently, these new mission architectures generate new data models and policy, as highlighted by the D3S missions from ESA and by the SPIRE constellation. This current popularity, along with increasing solar activity and the resulting enhanced risk of onboard anomalies, raises the question as to how to further advance space weather monitoring and awareness, to the next level. We propose in this session to address these questions at system, data and payload levels, and to encourage discussion on potential future benefits to space weather monitoring through the use of smallsats. We will especially address funding mechanisms and business development plans for current projects by agencies, academia and industry, and also for potential future collaborations between different spaceborne actors.
Full List of Oral Presentations:
| 629 | Tuesday | 08:50-09:05 | Saint Exupéry | Status and plans for ESA’s Distributed Space Weather Sensor System | HEIL Melanie et al. | Oral |
| 634 | Tuesday | 09:05-09:18 | Saint Exupéry | For a space weather service based on European smallsats | PRADELS Gregory et al. | Oral |
| 850 | Tuesday | 09:18-09:31 | Saint Exupéry | ROARS: Revealing Orbital and Atmospheric Responses to Solar activity – A multi-spacecraft mission to Low Earth Orbit | DESAI Ravindra et al. | Oral |
| 863 | Tuesday | 09:31-09:44 | Saint Exupéry | ASRO’s Radiation Monitor Family: Adaptable, Cost-Effective Instruments for the New Space Era | LEHTI Jussi et al. | Oral |
| 716 | Tuesday | 09:44-09:57 | Saint Exupéry | HENON: a pioneer mission for advanced prevision of Space Weather threats | MARCUCCI Maria Federica et al. | Oral |
| 869 | Tuesday | 09:57-10:10 | Saint Exupéry | Industrialization of U-Space’s Nanosatellite Platforms for Enhanced Space Weather Monitoring | COSTES Pierre et al. | Oral |
Full List of Poster Presentations: Will appear after the 13th September poster deadline