Near Earth space plasma monitoring under COST 296

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David Altadill
Josef Boska
Ljiljana R. Cander
Tamara Gulyaeva
Bodo W. Reinisch
Vincenzo Romano
Andrzej Krankowski
Jürgen Bremer
Anna Belehaki
Iwona Stanislawska
Norbert Jakowski
Carlo Scotto

Abstract

This review paper presents the main achievements of the near Earth space plasma monitoring under COST 296

Action. The outputs of the COST 296 community making data, historical and real-time, standardized and available to the ionospheric community for their research, applications and modeling purposes are presented. The contribution of COST 296 with the added value of the validated data made possible a trusted ionospheric monitoring for research and modeling purposes, and it served for testing and improving the algorithms producing real-time

data and providing data users measurement uncertainties. These value added data also served for calibration and

validation of space-borne sensors. New techniques and parameters have been developed for monitoring the near Earth space plasma, as time dependent 2D maps of vertical total electron content (vTEC), other key ionospheric parameters and activity indices for distinguishing disturbed ionospheric conditions, as well as a technique for improving the discrepancies of different mapping services. The dissemination of the above products has been developed by COST 296 participants throughout the websites making them available on-line for real-time applications.


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Altadill, D., Boska, J., Cander, L. R., Gulyaeva, T., Reinisch, B. W., Romano, V., Krankowski, A., Bremer, J., Belehaki, A., Stanislawska, I., Jakowski, N. and Scotto, C. (2009) “Near Earth space plasma monitoring under COST 296”, Annals of Geophysics, 52(3-4), pp. 221–234. doi: 10.4401/ag-4562.
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