With the increasing importance of space weather aspects in space missions, it is important to provide industry and other users with the means to access space weather data and services. The Service Development Activities (SDA) developed as part of, and associated with, ESA's Space Weather Applications Pilot Project provide a series of applications, services and data products addressing the diverse needs of a wide range of Space Weather service users. The products resulting from these activities will form the Space Weather European Network - SWENET. The SWENET Infrastructure has been operational since 2005 as a central resource centre for space weather activities, providing interested users access to space weather data and services.
For more information about SWENET or the ESA Space Weather Applications Pilot Project, please contact A. Glover (ESA) or P. Beltrami (etamax). |
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Space weather describes the state of the environment in space near the earth. The sun is the main driver of space weather. Sudden ejections of plasma and magnetic field structures from the sun's atmosphere called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) together with sudden bursts of radiation termed solar flares all cause space weather effects at the earth. In addition, non-solar sources such as galactic cosmic rays, meteoroids and space debris can all be considered as altering space weather conditions at the earth.
Space weather effects are highly relevant to our daily life on earth. There are influences on topics such as crew and passenger radiation risks on aircraft, communication problems, effects on synthetic apperture radar systems, GPS systems, etc. Even power-line failures and corrosion effects observed in pipelines on earth may be the direct result of space weather induced effects. This further stresses the importance of this discipline not only for the future of manned missions inspace, but also to the present situation of life on earth.
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You can use the following functionalities with the SWENET portal (all require login):
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The SWENET team is pleased to inform you about the latest features and functions upgrades as well as interface enhancements to the Space Weather European Network Portal.
Upgrades:
- Restructured start page to provide additional infomation on SWENET.
- Simplified Data Access Interface to combine data, plotting and image search functions.
- New Latest Alerts page displaying alerts on ap, dst, flux10, kp and xray
- Tutorials link added to the resource section containing step-by-step animated tutorials for various SWENET functions.
- Quick-search textfield (SWENET Search) incorporated in the right sidebar.
- More detailed Latest Indices page showing the most relevant space weather indices.
- Links to facilitate subscription to regular emails have been added.
- Reports are now included as possible results to the "SDA general search".
- Upgraded the Web Service for data access.
- The Image Browsing interface has been improved.
- Link to the Data Analysis section added to the left sidebar.
- Generation of animated images has now been implemented.
- Resources section in the left sidebar expanded.
If you have any suggestions or ideas for the Space Weather European Network Portal, please do not hesitate to contact the SWENET team at [email protected].
For detailed information please see the upgrade summary page.
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