Ionizing Radiation Services for Aviation at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center
Abstract
With a growing desire for real-time space weather forecasting of radiation levels at airline altitudes, the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA SWPC), as a designated International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) global space weather information center, will begin issuing advisories for radiation levels at commercial airline altitudes.
NOAA SWPC radiation advisories will be guided by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) CARI-7 dose rate model (Copeland 2017). In particular, the model determines the resultant radiation dose from an incident spectrum of atmospheric ionizing radiation, comprising of the background galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) and transient solar energetic particle (SEP) events. This presentation will detail the real-time proton spectrum, input to the model from the new GOES series SGPS instrument, the CARI-7 model framework and the radiation advisory format required by ICAO.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMSA31B..07B
- Keywords:
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- 7924 Forecasting;
- SPACE WEATHER;
- 7934 Impacts on technological systems;
- SPACE WEATHER;
- 7944 Ionospheric effects on radio waves;
- SPACE WEATHER