Operative products offered by LAMP (Laboratorio Argentino de Meteorología del esPacio) in Argentina
Abstract
The number of countries developing operative Space Weather (SWx) activities has significantly increased during the last years. Several international institutions, as for instance the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), have began to develop programs and activities on Space Weather, some of them with the aim of having answers to the negative effects of extreme SWx events. At the beginning of 2016, our laboratory on SWx in Argentina (LAMP: Laboratorio Argentino de Meteorología del esPacio) started to develop activities on operative SWx. These activities are being developed by four institutions: Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos at Universidad de Buenos Aires (DCAO-UBA), Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE), Instituto Antartico Argentino (IAA), and Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN). These SWx activities started in 2014 with a programme of courses on operative SWx.In 2015, a website at DCAO started to offer the first operative products in Space Weather (spaceweather.at.fcen.uba.ar), offering information about the current conditions of the energetic proton flux arriving to the terrestrial environment, online information about the flux of radiation at two X-rays bands near Earth (GOES), and also information of the Kp index. A forecasting service of SWx is also provided. Since 2016, we started to develop a daily monitoring of real-time information on the SWx conditions, in particular, the conditions of the Sun, the interplanetary medium, the magnetosphere, and the ionosphere. The information is analyzed by each participant and discussed later on, during monthly briefings. A weekly report is done as a resume of the space weather activity and it is posted on the website. Also from a collaboration between DCAO and EMBRACE-INPE, a product showing the total electron content in the Argentine ionosphere is also include in the portal. We present here an example of the activities on operative Space Weather developed in Argentina and a summary of the products we develop in the LAMP group.
- Publication:
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42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018cosp...42E1932L