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Prediction of Geospace Radiation Environment and solar wind parameters

Project

  • PROGRESS
  • Posted on: Oct 11, 2016

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Post Date: Oct 11, 2016

Tags: Horizon 2020

The smooth functioning of the European economy and the welfare of its citizens depends upon an ever-growing set of services and facilities that are reliant on space and ground based infrastructure. Examples include communications (radio, TV, mobile phones), navigation of aircraft and private transport via GPS, and service industries (e.g. banking). These services, however, can be adversely affected by the space weather hazards. The forecasting of space weather hazards, driven by the dynamical processes originating on the sun, is critical to the mitigation of their negative effects. The goal of PROGRESS is to develop an accurate and reliable forecast system for the occurrence and severity of space weather events. Within project PROGRESS we aim to develop a European tool to forecast the solar wind parameters just upstream of the Earth's magnetosphere. We will develop a comprehensive set of forecasting tools for geomagnetic indices by combining the most accurate data based forecast of electron fluxes at GEO with the most comprehensive physics based model of the radiation belts currently available to deliver a reliable forecast of radiation environment in the radiation belts.

Call ID: H2020-PROTEC-2014
Overall EC contribution: € 2,358,230.50
Name of UA partner(s) involved:

Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the National Space Agency of Ukraine

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