The International Space Weather Initiative
Abstract
The International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) is an international program of scientific collaboration to understand the external drivers of space weather. One of the major thrusts of the ISWI is to deploy arrays of small instruments such as magnetometers, radio antennas, GPS receivers, all-sky cameras, particle detectors, etc. around the world to provide global measurements of heliospheric phenomena. Scientists from approximately 70 countries now participate in the instrument operation, data collection, analysis, and publication of scientific results, working at the forefront of science research. The purpose of the ISWI is to continue the scientific study of universal processes in the solar system that affect space weather and the terrestrial environment, and to continue to coordinate the deployment and operation of new and existing instrument arrays aimed at understanding the impacts of Space Weather on Earth and the near-Earth environment. This project provides an excellent opportunity for potential instrument providers to engage collaborators from specific geographical locations, and to broaden the coverage of existing instrument arrays. By deploying instruments in strategically chosen locations new science and a more global view of heliophysical processes is obtained. These data will also provide new inputs for global ionospheric models in the future.
- Publication:
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38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010cosp...38.4192D