A major feature of the European Space Weather Week (ESWW) is the live contribution made by the participants. Topical Discussion Meetings (TDMs) are a principal programme component providing this by creating arenas for engaging debate.
Following an open call for TDMs that closed on 26th of June 2023, the ESWW PC selected 20 TDMs (out of a record 30 submissions covering a broad range of topics!).
The list of 20 selected TDMs is provided below with their times and locations in the conference venue.
We invite conveners of selected TDMs to review the TDM guidelines to prepare their TDMs. Please contact antonio.guerreroo[at]uah.es if you have any further questions with regards to the preparation of your TDM.
We look forward to seeing you in Toulouse !
The selected Topical Discussion Meetings :
TDM 1 REPORT
TDM Conveners: Carlos Larrodera, Lenka Zychova
TDM Secretary: Domenico Di Mauro
Contact email: carlos.larrodera[at]uah.es
Location: Guillaumet Room
Date and time: Tuesday 21st November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: The Topical Discussion Meeting (TDM) aims to engage the Space Weather and Space Climate community in an interactive session focused on the Education and Outreach Proto Committee of the European Space Weather and Space Climate Association (E-SWAN). The primary objective of the TDM is to involve the community in the working group’s ongoing actions, while also gathering fresh ideas and suggestions for future initiatives. During the TDM, the Education and Outreach Proto Committee will present their current activities, including the organization of Space Weather and Space Climate courses and webinars, as well as the publication of a Space Weather and Space Climate book. These examples will serve as a foundation for engaging the audience and encouraging their active participation. The TDM will provide a platform for attendees to share their experiences, offer feedback, and contribute their ideas and suggestions. Discussions will be welcomed on topics related to the presented actions, as well as any additional outreach and education endeavors in the field of Space Weather and Space Climate. By involving the community in this interactive session, the TDM seeks to foster collaboration, strengthen the working group’s initiatives, and explore new avenues for future projects. The valuable input gathered during the meeting will contribute to the enhancement and expansion of the Education and Outreach Proto Committee’s activities, ensuring they remain relevant and effective in meeting the needs of the community. The TDM invites active participation from all attendees, encouraging open dialogue, knowledge sharing, and the collective shaping of future actions. Together, the community and the Education and Outreach Working Group will work towards advancing outreach and education efforts in the dynamic field of Space Weather and Space Climate. If you are interested in presenting a few slides in this TDM, please contact carlos.larrodera[at]uah.es.
TDM2 REPORT
TDM Conveners: Maria Kuznetsova, Mario Bisi
TDM Secretary: Suzy Bingham
Contact email: maria.m.kuznetsova[at]nasa.gov
Location: Spot Room
Date and time: Tuesday 21st November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: COSPAR International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT) initiative with more than 500 active members includes 57 Action Teams working via self-guided topical collaborations addressing challenges across the field of space weather. ISWAT initiative formed the backbone for the community-driven Space Weather Roadmap with a set of science papers coordinated by Action Team Leads and a set of review papers mirroring the ISWAT S-H-G Cluster structure (Tier 2 papers). The TDM will start with a scene setting introduction summarizing outcomes from the mini-ISWAT satellite event before to the ESWW 2023. The brief update will be followed by open discussion on Roadmap recommendations, high priority actions and community-wide campaigns, and approach to improving international coordination.
TDM3 REPORT
TDM Conveners: Erwin de Donder, Neophytos Messios
TDM Secretary: Daniel Heynderickx
Contact email: erwin.dedonder[at]aeronomie.be
Location: Cassiopée Room
Date and time: Tuesday 21st November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: To facilitate access to space environment and effects models, the SPace ENVironment Information System (SPENVIS) has been developed for ESA by BIRA-IASB since 1996, under ESA/GSTP contracts. SPENVIS is a web-based interface to a comprehensive set of models of the space environment and its effects on spacecraft components and astronauts. It has been operational for more than twenty five years. Although initially designed to help spacecraft engineers perform rapid analysis of environmental issues, SPENVIS has become over the years a multi-purpose tool that is used by a worldwide user community, including spacecraft designers and operators, component designers, teachers, and scientists (e.g., model developers). In this TDM we will give a demo of the new SPENVIS system in development and solicit comments and feedback from the end-user, science, and application engineering community. The work is carried out under ESA Contract No.4000134504/21/NL/CRS with the objective of re-designing the current system to improve the usability of the models and the user interaction/experience. The novel SPENVIS system will also incorporate new radiation environment models and make use of ESA’s Network of Models (NoM). A first operational version of the new system is foreseen to be launched in 2024 together with the organization of a SPENVIS users’ workshop.
TDM Conveners: Marianna Korsos, Marie Dominique, Elena Driver
TDM Secretary: Dalia Obrazová
Contact email: komabi[at]gmail.com
Location: Argos Room
Date and time: Tuesday 21st November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: The objectives of the Topical Discussion Meeting (TDM) closely align with the goals of the newly formed E-SWAN Working Group on « Operational Activities, Infrastructure, Data, and Models. » The main objectives of this TDM are as follows: 1) Identify specific needs in terms of ground-based and space-based infrastructure, instrumentation, and modeling for Space Weather and Space Climate (SW&SC). Infrastructure encompasses facilities for data acquisition, distribution, and long-term storage. The discussion should also include funding opportunities for these needs. 2) Discuss ways to improve the provision of operational services to meet the needs of users. 3) Identify areas where collaboration should be encouraged among various stakeholders in SW&SC and explore potential mechanisms for collaboration, such as recommendations on data formats and distribution protocols. The TDM serves as a discussion forum that brings together SW&SC data providers, service providers, industry representatives, and service end users. It also offers an opportunity for funding agencies to gain insight into the critical and underfunded needs identified by the SW&SC community. In summary, the TDM aims to address infrastructure and funding needs, to strengthen international collaborations, and to facilitate discussions among various stakeholders to advance the field of Space Weather and Space Climate.
TDM Conveners: Melanie Heil, Alexi Glover
TDM Secretary: Daniel Fischer
Contact email: melanie.heil[at]esa.int
Location: Saint Exupéry Auditorium
Date and time: Tuesday 21st November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: ESA is starting the development and implementation of a dedicated Space Weather Payload Data Centre (PDC). The Space Weather PDC will provide several functionalities, with the core elements being a data hub, which will store data and allow user access to the processed payload data (Level-1 and higher), the data processor, which will process the instruments raw data to Level-1, and a payload mission operations planning element. This session will discuss the general use of the PDC for ESA missions and the plans for the user access to the data, including the interface functionalities envisaged, for which input on user needs is highly desirable. Discussion on additional use cases and integration of external mission data sets is welcome. Please reach out to the conveners in advance, if possible, if you would like to contribute a use case or desired functionality with the support of a few slides.
TDM Conveners: Anna Belehaki, Anders Tjulin
TDM Secretary: Maria Mihalikova
Contact email: belehaki[at]noa.gr
Location: Argos Room
Date and time: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: PITHIA Network of Research Facilities (PITHIA-NRF) aims at building a European distributed network integrating observing facilities, data collections, data processing tools and prediction models dedicated to the ionosphere, thermosphere and plasmasphere (ITP) research. The PITHIA-NRF project has received funding from the European Commission H2020 Research Infrastructures Programme. PITHIA-NRF Research Nodes operate in 10 European countries and offer Trans National Access to users from all over the world for the implementation of projects relevant to observation and modeling of ionospheric plasma processes, its perturbations and irregularities, its coupling with the neutral atmosphere and its interaction with the plasmasphere. The PITHIA-NRF nodes provide access to data from ground-based instruments such as GNSS ground based receivers, Ionosondes, Digisondes, Dynasondes, Doppler Sounders, Incoherent Scatter Radars, Riometers, All Sky Imagers, and the LOFAR radio telescope. Users can also access long-term observational data and relevant scientific models through the PITHIA-NRF e-science center, a dedicated knowledge hub that provides open access to FAIR data and higher-level data-products. Researchers who have already used the tools and services offered by PITHIA-NRF, are invited to present the advances reached implementing Trans National Access projects in PITHIA-NRF nodes and comment on their experience. Researchers planning to propose a research project for implementation in PITHIA nodes are also invited to actively contribute to this discussion session. Furthermore, users of the e-science center are invited to present their experience from using the various tools either for simple queries or for registering data collections. Information for Service/Project Feedback: Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services: a Network of Research Facilities (PITHIA-NRF), European Commission, Horizon 2020, Grant Agreement 101007599
TDM Conveners: Jorge Amaya
TDM Secretary: Melanie Heil
Contact email: jorge.amaya[at]esa.int
Location: Saint Exupéry Auditorium
Date and time: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: Computer models of the space weather environment are a critical component of any future European Space Weather Reconstruction and Forecasting (SWRF) service. In recent years the European space weather community has proposed new advanced models of different elements of the Sun-Earth interaction. However, in multiple communications, this same community has manifested the need for better international coordination and long-term plans in order to produce the tools necessary for any operational forecasting service. In this TDM the convener will present a first draft of a long-term roadmap for the funding, development, enhancing, and deployment of the space weather models needed for a future operational SWRF service. The goal of the TDM is to collect feedback on this draft and to discuss additional topics that the community finds require more coverage. The TDM will start with a presentation by the convener. Discussions are welcomed at any point during and after the presentation. The convener will focus on seven (7) topics that require special attention on the road-mapping of the SWRF service: (1) Funding and coordination of modelling activities (2) Exploitation of recent scientific discoveries in new models (3) Benchmarking, comparison, verification and validation of model results. (4) Use of the latest computing technology (HPC, Cloud computing, QC) (5) Use of modern data analysis techniques (UQ, Data assimilation, AI/ML, modern data visualization) (6) Unused data and new data from the ground and from space (with focus on NRT data) (7) New missions required to improve the models The convener invites those who which to actively participate in the discussion, to prepare 1 slide describing what they feel are the most important objectives and tasks of the long-term roadmap towards an operational SWRF service. Name of the project/service: Space Weather Reconstruction and Forecasting (SWRF) 2030 roadmap
TDM8 REPORT
TDM Conveners: Jamie Favors, Nadine Boersma
TDM Secretary: John Manuel
Contact email: james.e.favors[at]nasa.gov
Location: Cassiopée Room
Date and time: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: The multi-national, multi-Agency Artemis Program of lunar exploration is providing new opportunities for space weather (including heliophysics) research. Artemis also presents challenges for operational monitoring and prediction of space weather as will be necessary to protect astronauts venturing beyond low Earth orbit. Consequently, multiple agencies are developing space weather capabilities specifically to support Artemis. These efforts include analysis and prediction centers as well as future payloads to study and monitor space radiation and space weather. All these efforts inform future international exploration plans such as NASA’s Moon to Mars architecture which will further enable scientific investigations in deep space and require Earth-independent space weather capabilities for human exploration. This Topical Discussion Meeting is offered with an intent of promoting gainful collaboration and coordination of projects. The meeting will open with a brief overview of payload and data from the ERSA, IDA, and HERMES on Gateway including plans for dissemination, as an example of what exists now, as a foundation to stimulate discussion on where we could and should go. The remaining time will be dedicated to open discussion. Interested attendees are encouraged to bring a single slide addressing potential collaborations. Possible topics include but are not limited to: • Proposed or existing Artemis-related heliophysics and space weather projects • Heliophysics research which could utilise future Artemis data • Necessary payloads to enable space weather and heliophysics activities • Specific suggestions for topics or areas for collaboration • How lunar exploration can be a case study for future science payloads and space weather capability needs for Mars exploration.
TDM9 REPORT
TDM Conveners: Sabrina Guastavino, Valentina Candiani
TDM Secretary: Francesco Marchetti
Contact email: guastavino[at]dima.unige.it
Location: Guillaumet Room
Date and time: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: In recent years, implementation of physical knowledge into pure data-driven approaches has seen an increasing interest, both from a theoretical and from an applied perspective. Indeed, physical information can be implemented in machine/deep learning schemes in multiple ways: data engi-neering, network structures, loss functions, evaluation metrics are some examples. Therefore, it is natural to think of such approaches in the context of space weather forecasting, where data-driven methods seem to be applicable and efficient in multiple tasks. However, many challenges are along the way, and finding right solutions is far from trivial. First, the robustness of the underlying physics model needs to be determined. As an example, it is imperative to assess the reliability of magnetohydrodynamics equations or drag-based models. On the other hand, purely data-driven ap-proaches ignore physical notions in different frameworks, and this often results in a glaring lack of physical interpretability, even from well-designed algorithms. In this topical discussion meeting, opportunities from, and limitations of, physics-driven machine learning will be discussed, aiming toward a constructive debate and potential future courses of action. Panellists: 1) Michele Piana, Department of Mathematics, University of Genova 2) Enrico Camporeale, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center 3) Véronique Delouille, Solar physics and Space weather department, Royal Observatory of Belgium, 4) Manolis K. Georgoulis, Res. Center for Astron. and Applied Math. (RCAAM) Academy of Athens, 5) Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven
TDM Conveners: Yuri Shprits, Veronika Haberle
TDM Secretary: Balazs Asztalos
Contact email: yshprits[at]gfz-potsdam.de
Location: Spot Room
Date and time: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: In this dynamic meeting, the participants will have the chance to interact with E-SWAN and influence the work of its Users Engagement (USENG) working group. The working group is dedicated to the creation of an ecosystem for Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC) stakeholders, in order to facilitate interaction and enable cooperation. Stakeholders from industry (including but not limited to satellite industry, navigation, communication, ground infrastructure, precision drilling, insurances, aviation, pipelines), academia (including but not limited to data providers, modelers) and governmental institutions are invited to join and contribute to this Topical Discussion Meeting. In the first part of the meeting, we will introduce the preliminary Space Weather and Space Climate Landscape and present already collected use-cases. The second part is dedicated to open discussion with the following goals: – Establish the core group for the SWSC community – Share and debate the findings on SWSC use cases – Identify and collect new use cases in agreement of participating stakeholders – Propose ideas for raising awareness and enhancing collaboration – Kick-off of first initiatives (e.g. shared database of SWSC stakeholders, online/in-person collaboration – events for the community and/or with the data/service provider community) In summary, this TDM will serve as an open discussion forum that brings together the SWSC stakeholders, to shape the SWSC ecosystem together and to enable collaboration initiatives within the community.
TDM Conveners: Nicolas André, Sae Aizawa
TDM Secretary: Andrea Opitz
Contact email: nicolas.andre[at]irap.omp.eu
Location: Guillaumet Room
Date and time: Thursday 23nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: Planetary space weather is the extension of the solar-terrestrial relations to other planets, celestial bodies or interplanetary spacecraft in the Solar System. The emphasis of the session is on all aspects of the conditions in the Sun, solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas that extend the concepts of space weather and space situational awareness to other planets. New services accessible to the research community, space agencies, and industrial partners planning for space missions, for instance addressing the effects of the environment on components and systems, will be discussed. This session will in particular summarize the planetary space weather services developed during Europlanet 2024 RI with the Sun Planetary Interactions Digital Environment Run on request (SPIDER) funded as part of the Europlanet H2024 Research Infrastucture by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149.
TDM12 REPORT
TDM Conveners: Frédéric Pitout, Aziza Bounhir
TDM Secretary: Rabiu Babatunde
Contact email: frederic.pitout[at]irap.omp.eu
Location: Saint Exupéry Auditorium
Date and time: Thursday 23nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: Solar activity, space weather, extreme meteorological events, global warming, earthquakes, geomagnetic field secular variations all leave their imprint on the lower ionosphere and thermosphere (LIT), this complex interface where neutral atmosphere and space environment interact. The objective of the “International Meridian Circle Program (IMCP)”, a proposal for an international collaboration program initially formulated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is to use the LIT as a screen on which to detect and separate these specific imprints, including their variations in magnetic and geographic latitude, local time and longitude; in the IMCP concept (Liu et al., 2021), this objective can be achieved by networking solar and upper atmosphere observation instruments along two Great Meridian Circles in longitude quadrature: an Asia-Americas meridian circle (120°E-60°W), and a Europe-Africa-Pacific one (30°E-150°W). In the proposed TDM, we will invite the ESWW community to openly discuss: 1) the science base of this project and its specific strengths and weaknesses; 2) ways for the European and African communities to contribute together to this project via networking of instruments along the 30°E-150°W Great Meridian; 3) the cooperative research tools needed to stimulate joint analysis of IMCP data. Following a presentation of the project by one of its lead scientists, the discussion will be fed by reports from several preparatory meetings in Africa (IMCP Working Group), in Asia (IMCP discussion at the AOGS), in the USA (CEDAR community workshop) and under the umbrella of ISWI. Its conclusions, to be shared with the international Space Weather community, will come at a very appropriate time as several countries around the world are already devoting important resources to its development.
TDM REPORT 13
TDM Conveners: Rico Behlke, Véronique Delouille
TDM Secretary: Thierry Dudok de Wit
Contact email: rico[at]ksat.no
Location: Cassiopée Room
Date and time: Thursday 23nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: This TDM complements the plenary session P01 on « Pathways to sustainable space weather and space climate activities » by providing a forum for open discussion on ways to reduce our carbon footprint. The TDM will be organised by E-SWAN WG8: Sustainability. It will begin with a brief debriefing of the one-day Sustainability Workshop held on 19 November. The TDM will allow people to share their experiences and the solutions they have been able to implement in their professional activities to reduce their carbon footprint and leave a sustainable future for the next generations.
TDM 14 REPORT
TDM Conveners: KD Leka, Sophie Murray
TDM Secretary: Kathryn Whitman
Contact email: leka[at]nwra.com
Location: Spot Room
Date and time: Thursday 23nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: Following the related CD100 session, flare forecasting is looking for a breakthrough. Community-supported tools may facilitate this research. We propose a Topical Discussion Meeting for community engagement on the two following subjects: 1) Roles and Capabilities for a community validation and performance evaluation tool. What does this look like? What capabilities would it include? What options would be required, which would be nice to have? What input capabilities would be required? What products and output would be required or simply nice to have? Does the NASA/CCMC have a role here? Is there a more appropriate (international) host? 2) Validation and Evaluation are only as good as the « answer » that is available. Every available flare event list has shortcomings. What should the community do to address this? Can we eliminate the repeated duplication of effort that seems to be happening? Can we design a curated, supported community-based solution with longevity ensured? How can we forward-think this for 4-Pi forecasting and validation? What (internationally-accepted) institution should or could host such a resource?
TDM Conveners: Dario Del Moro
TDM Secretary: Valerio Formato
Contact email: delmoro[at]roma2.infn.it
Location: Argos Room
Date and time: Thursday 23nd November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: Creating a comprehensive database for space weather studies presents numerous challenges due to the heterogeneity of the data and the need for efficient management. This TDM wants to explore the challenges encountered in developing such databases and proposes strategies to address them. Firstly, the heterogeneity of space weather data, originating from various sources and instruments, poses difficulties in harmonizing formats and units. Standardization efforts are necessary to ensure interoperability and facilitate data integration and analysis. Secondly, product description and metadata generation are crucial for effective data organization. The metadata should capture essential information about the data, such as its source, processing methods, and quality indicators. Proper metadata generation enables data discovery, access, and analysis, enhancing the usability of the database. Additionally, the database must allow the users to describe the complex chain of phenomena that occur from the Sun to Earth and planetary environments. Incorporating multi-instrument, multi-parameter, and multi-scale data is essential to understand the intricate interactions and impacts of space weather. Design considerations and challenges in database architecture, scalability, and data storage must be addressed to ensure efficient and sustainable operations. Collaborative efforts at national and international levels are key to capturing the needs and interests of the international science community, fostering the development of comprehensive and widely-used databases. This is one of the main drivers of this TDM. The topics that will be discussed in the TDM include, but are not limited to: addressing the heterogeneity of data, ensuring effective metadata generation, facilitating data discovery and access, considering design and collaboration challenges. Panellists: Alberto Bigazzi, ASI, Marco Molinaro, INAF, Stephane Erard, ObsParis, Arnaud Masson, ESA
TDM Conveners: Steven Dewitte , Judith de Patoul
TDM Secretary: Jaroslav Urbar
Contact email: steven.dewitte[at]oma.be
Location: Ariane Room
Date and time: Thursday 23th November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: With the increasing use of space technology in day-to-day life, modern society has become vulnerable for Space Weather, finding its origin in the Sun, the solar wind, the magnetosphere, the ionosphere and the thermosphere, and its interaction with the Earth. The effects of Space Weather can range from damage to satellites arising from charged particles to disruption of power grids on Earth during geomagnetic storms, radio black-out on trans-polar aircraft routes, disturbance of satellite positioning systems, or loss of satellites due to increased atmospheric drag. In order to cope with the growing vulnerability of our modern society to space weather, there is a need for sustained funding for space weather observation and modelling activities, that go beyond the capabilities of individual countries. In Europe, space weather activities have been developed since 2009 by the European Space Agency (ESA), through the Space Situation Awareness (SSA) and Space Safety Program (S2P). In particular, ESA is developing the pre-operational Space Weather Service Network (SWESNET) as well as the Vigil space mission, that will observe the side of the Sun and send near real-time data on potentially hazardous solar activity before it rotates into view from Earth. In 2016, the European Commission (EC) Joint Research Center (JRC) organised an event on space weather, where, from a strategic and policy perspective, the lack of clearly defined roles in Europe was highlighted. At the international level, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), has established an Expert Team on Space Weather and has adopted a Four-year Plan for WMO’s Coordination of Space Weather Activities 2020-2023. In response to the WMO requirement, the European Meteorological satellite organisation EUMETSAT has expressed an interest in developing operational space weather activities. It is timely that a discussion takes place among the European Space Weather stakeholders, on a way forward towards a sustained funding of Space Weather activities in Europe.
TDM Conveners: Juha-Pekka Luntama, Jim Spann
TDM Secretary: Andrew Monham
Contact email: Andrew.Monham[at]eumetsat.int
Location: Saint Exupéry Auditorium
Date and time: Friday 24th November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: This TDM continues the highly successful discussion meetings in the previous three European Space Weather Weeks to provide the data users information about the planned, new space weather missions and to collect the user feedback on how the user access to the data can be ensured and enhanced. The objectives of the TDM are closely linked to the objectives of the new User Access Task Group established in the framework of Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS). The TDM offers a discussion forum between the users of the space weather measurement data, space weather service providers, industry and service end users, and provides the agencies implementing the future space weather missions critical information for ensuring that the observation data can be effectively and efficiently utilized in operational applications and scientific research. The topics that will be discussed in the TDM include, but are not limited to: • Standardisation of space weather data and products including metadata • Data availability and latency • Standardised data delivery mechanisms • Readiness of the users to utilise data from coming missions (new GEO missions, SWFO, Vigil, ENLoTIS, hosted payloads, smallsats and nanosatellites) • Need and access to ground-based observation data
TDM Conveners: Emilia Kilpua, Rami Vainio
TDM Secretary: Pietro Zucca
Contact email: emilia.kilpua[at]helsinki.fi
Location: Cassiopée Room
Date and time: Friday 24th November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) drive the largest space weather disturbances. The first step to forecast their impact is to realistically estimate their key parameters (magnetic, kinematic and geometric) upon the eruption and their early evolution in the corona, including the structure and parameters of the shock waves that they drive. This information is paramount for constraining (magnetized) CME models in heliospheric simulations such as EUHFORIA and semi-empirical CME and CME-shock models, which are key to understanding and predicting Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) acceleration in these eruptions. In this panel forum we raise the discussion on this very current and highly important topic. We will focus on questions such as: What are the current challenges in providing the early information of CMEs and SEP events and the biggest sources of uncertainties? What observations and observational proxies are needed the most, based both on multi-wavelength remote-sensing observations and magnetograms, as well as on ground-based facilities such as LOFAR. What are observational and numerical requirements and challenges to provide the information realistically and promptly? Do we lack some key physical understanding regarding CMEs and SEP events that significantly hamper the realistic definition of parameters? These questions are at the core of the three on-going EU consortia (SWATNet, SERPENTINE and IDOLS) who form a Horizon Booster cluster and convene this panel forum. Panelists: Jasmina Magdalenić Zhukov, KU Leuven, Manolis Georgoulis, Academy of Athens, manolis.georgoulis@academyofathens.gr Manuela Temmer, University of Graz, Eleanna Asvetari, University of Helsinki, Nicolas Wijsen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
TDM 19 REPORT
TDM Conveners: Klaus Sievers, Issaad Kacem
TDM Secretary: Martin Latocha
Contact email: Klaus.Sievers[at]VCockpit.de
Location: Argos Room
Date and time: Friday 24th November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
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. After four years, it is time to discuss the experience of Airlines, Air Navigation Service Providers, Authorities, Pilots and other stakeholders in Aviation with the service. What direction should developments take, which improvements or new serveices are desired ?
TDM REPORT 20
TDM Conveners: Jim Wild, Norah Kwagala, Audrey Schillings
TDM Secretary: Suzy Bingham
Contact email: j.wild[at]lancaster.ac.uk
Location: Spot Room
Date and time: Friday 24th November 2023 at 11:45-12:45
Description: The Space Weather and Space Climate communities include a diverse group of data stakeholders, including technical operational and scientific users. Ground-based instruments play a crucial role in space weather research as well as services. Their measurement data feed into and underpin models, event-based data analysis and alerting and forecasting services. Instruments, such as all-sky cameras, radars, magnetometers, GNSS stations, riometers and ionosondes provide specific information about the prevailing space weather and climate conditions at their respective locations, but collectively they also provide a global perspective capturing the spatial variation and the evolution of the conditions. This is essential to obtain a more detailed understanding of space weather effects and their evolution and hence to the capability to forecast local space weather conditions. In this TDM, we will facilitate a discussion around opportunities and strategies for improvement of ground-based measurements both for research and services. While services and research may pose different demands (focus on real-time access vs continuity and calibration), harmonization of the data and networking across the different sites is clearly valuable to both. Needs and priorities for securing ongoing support for the various ground-based facilities and their networks will be discussed.