NOAA News Online (Story 2414) space weather Week 2005 includes sessions and meetings on space exploration and for continued research and monitoring of space weather, said Brig. Gen. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2414.htm
Extractions: NOAA Magazine NOAA Home Page Commerce Dept. NOAA LAUNCHES SPACE WEATHER WEEK 2005 April 4, 2005 Space weather forecasters and researchers, as well as industry analysts affected by space weather from around the globe, will converge in Colorado for the launch of this year's Space Weather Week . The four-day conference runs April 5-8 in Broomfield, Colo. (Click undated NOAA image for larger view of a huge solar flare being unleashed from the surface of the sun. Click here "Space weather affects us all," said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher , Ph.D., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. "Space weather affects people living and equipment in space as well as those on Earth. A unique and valuable aspect of Space Weather Week is the merging of research and operations." Researchers funded by NASA, National Science Foundation, Defense Department and numerous international organizations attend Space Weather Week to describe recent advances in numerical modeling, data assimilation and environmental measurements. The presentations and discussions at Space Weather Week focus on identifying the highest priority needs for operational services that can guide future research and on identifying new high-value capabilities that can be transitioned into operations.
Planet Ark : China Will Launch 3 Weather-Monitoring Satellites BEIJING China will launch three weather monitoring satellites to help detect the first of its kind signed in the field of China s civil space flight, http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/26915/newsDate/3-Sep-2004/sto
Extractions: Our UK Home Page Select a topic from this pull-down menu Read the latest Reuters World Environment News Look at the latest Reuters Environment News Pictures Receive free daily news headlines via email Search the Planet Ark News Archive Find out about National Tree Day Visit the Planet Ark Media Centre Who are Planet Ark? Find out about Planet Ark's campaigns Find out about the local recycling services available in your area China suffers widespread flooding and drought each year, causing huge loss of life. Sandstorms whip up from the north in the spring and typhoons roar in from the south in the summer. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. had completed an appraisal of the first of the locally developed satellites, Fengyun-2 batch two (FY-2 02), which would be launched atop Long March 3A rockets, the newspaper said. "China badly needs a stationary satellite like the FY-2 02 with its function of detecting sandstorms, forest and prairie fires," it quoted Qin Dahe, the top official at the China Meteorologic Administration (CMA), as saying.
Vol.4 Issue 9 (15-05-2000) monitoring of space weather effects by riometers in Northern FennoScandia TEC monitoring by GPS - a Possible Contribution to space weather monitoring http://www.lund.irf.se/HeliosHome/SWEN/vol4issue10.html
Extractions: Space Weather Euro News Vol.4 Issue 10 (15-05-2000) Table of Contents: ********************************************************** 1. Report on the Space Weather Session held at the XXV General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society 2. SWEEM(TN) and SWEEM(AM) space weather proposals are submitted to EU 3. The First S-RAMP Conference (Reminder) 4. Symposium "Comparison of Observations and Simulations of Global Magnetospheric Structure" (S-RAMP Conf) 5. Some ESA Tender Actions ********************************************************* HTML version: http://www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/spweather/UNDER/vol4issue10.html swen@wm.estec.esa.nl ========================================================= ********************************************************* 1. Report on the Space Weather Session held at the XXV General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society ********************************************************* From: Volker Bothmer Email: Bothmer@kernphysik.uni-kiel.de http://www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/spweather/ ) and the US Space Weather Community, to enhance the number of contributions from the fields of solar/heliospheric and magnetospheric space plasma research and to support ongoing and planned educational and public outreach programmes. Volker Bothmer University of Kiel Solar Physics Secretary EGS ESA Space Weather Euro News and Space Weather Working Team Member ********************************************************* 2. SWEEM(TN) and SWEEM(AM) space weather proposals are submitted to EU. ********************************************************* From: Frank Jansen Email:
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On Campus News Its much more difficult to obtain data about space weather far above the Earth . theresa desperate need for space weather monitoring. http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/Sept3-99/research.html
Extractions: This week the Canadian Light Source synchrotron project got both a new leader and a new logo. The new CLS interim director is Michael Bancroft, a chemist from the University of Western Ontario who is a Canadian leader in synchrotron-aided research and a longtime proponent of building a synchrotron in Canada. Bancroft will be seconded for two years from UWO while an international search is carried out to find a permanent director for the CLS. Bancroft is past president of the Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation that represents the more than 200 synchrotron users across Canada. He recently stepped down as president of the Chemical Society of Canada. Bancroft led an initiative at the UWO which enabled Canadian researchers to install three beamlines at a facility in Madison, Wisconsin. Those beamlines will be moved to the CLS.
Extractions: NOAA's Geostationary and Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites Operating the country's system of environmental ( weather ) satellites is one of the major responsibilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). NESDIS operates the satellites and manages the processing and distribution of the millions of bits of data and images theses satellites produce daily. The primary customer is NOAA's National Weather Service, which uses satellite data to create forecasts for the public, television, radio, and weather advisory services. Satellite information is also shared with various Federal agencies, such as the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Defense, and Transportation; with other countries, such as Japan, India, and Russia, and members of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office; and with the private sector. NOAA's operational weather satellite system is composed of two types of satellites: geostationary operational environmental satellites (GOES) for short-range warning and "now-casting" and polar-orbiting satellites for longer-term forecasting. Both types of satellite are necessary for providing a complete global weather monitoring system. A new series of GOES and polar-orbiting satellites has been developed for NOAA by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The new GOES-I through M series provide higher spatial and temporal resolution images and full-time operational soundings (vertical temperature and moisture profiles of the atmosphere). The newest polar-orbiting meteorological satellites (that began with NOAA-K in 1998) provide improved atmospheric temperature and moisture data in all weather situations. This new technology will help provide the National Weather Service the most advanced weather forecast system in the world.
EurekAlert! - Space/Planetary Science Researcher warns space weather hole blocks manned Mars mission massive gapsin our understanding and monitoring of space weather will effectively block http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/space.php
ESA Space WeatherSite space weather Web Server space weather Effects Observed on the Ground, J.Watermann; monitoring the Ground Effects of space weather, E. Clarke http://www.esa-spaceweather.net/spweather/workshops/esww/proceedings.html
Extractions: Weather Week 29th November - 3rd December 2004, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Online Proceedings *This Page is Under Construction* This page will contain copies of the presentation material from invited review talks given during the above meeting. Poster presentations and invited written contributions will be published elsewhere. For more information, please contact A. Glover or J. Lilensten StoA 1: Radiation Environment of the Earth / Spacecraft and Aircraft environment Radiation Effects on Spacecraft and Aircraft - The Influence of Space Weather, C. S. Dyer Radiation belt dynamics: Physical processes , R. B. Horne Radiation belt modelling: today, tomorrow, next decade , I. Daglis Solar and Cosmic Ray Energetic Particle Models: Space Weather Aspects, S. B. Gabriel Monitoring capabilities of the Earth charged particle environment , J.-A. Sauvaud, S. Bourdarie, R. Ecoffet
Activity 10 Although solar forecasters use sophisticated satellite and computer technologyto improve space weather monitoring and analysis, researchers continue to http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/visitors/education/sam1/Activity10.html
Extractions: Sunspots were first observed by Chinese astronomers more than 2,800 years ago. With the invention of the modern optical telescope during the early 1600's, sunspot observations became more common. Galileo not only observed sunspots, but inferred from the movement of the sunspots that the sun rotated. He observed that sunspots occur in groups, and also noted that they occur in two bands above and below the sun's equator. We now also know that the sun has a magnetic field much like the magnetic field that surrounds a bar magnet. This general magnetic field gradually reverses polarity during each sunspot cycle, like the north and south poles of a bar magnet are switched when the magnet is turned end over end. The result is that the sun has a 22 year magnetic cycle, as well as an eleven year sunspot cycle. Furthermore, sunspots themselves have strong magnetic fields that reverse after each eleven year cycle to conform to the 22 year magnetic cycle.
NOAA Magazine Online (Story 98) SEC has been serving space weather customers even before NOAA was data setsare constantly being added to improve space weather monitoring and analysis. http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag98.htm
Extractions: NOAA Magazine NOAA Home Page Commerce Dept. NOAA SPACE ENVIRONMENT CENTER NOAA is the home of the National Weather Service , and serves the nation with accurate and comprehensive weather services. Less known, but every bit as important, the NOAA Space Environment Center space weather The Space Environment Center wears several NOAA hats. It is both a NOAA Research laboratory and one of the NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction . Its scientists are solar and space physicists, and its forecasters work every day turning out operational products, such as alerts and warnings. SEC is the national and world warning center for disturbances that can affect people and equipment working in the space environment. Jointly operated by NOAA and the U.S. Air Force, SEC provides forecasts and warnings of solar and geomagnetic activity to users in government, industry and the private sector. SEC continually monitors and forecasts the Earth's space environment, and provides accurate, reliable and useful solar-terrestrial information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. SEC's research scientists, working toward a better understanding of the sun-Earth connection, study the sun's electromagnetic, particle and magnetic-field emissions and the processes by which they affect the Earth's space environment.
SSEC - Images And Data Antarctic satellite images and animations, synoptic weather data, Fire monitoringsatellite images. Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (ABBA) GOES http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Extractions: Field Experiments Provides access, maintenance and distribution of real-time and archive weather and satellite data. picture galleries: Antarctica / Polar, Field Experiments, Environment and Weather ... Top of page GOES (North and South America), Meteosat (Europe and Africa) , GMS (Asia and Australia) Web page interface for viewing GOES, GMS, and Meteosat satellite pictures and movies in multiple image channels and more Full resolution, real-time GOES East/West composite satellite image web page interface with zoom and animation features Continental U.S. Terra/Aqua
NOAA Home Page - Satellites Theme Page The prime customer for the satellite data is the NOAA National weather Service, are necessary for providing a complete global weather monitoring system. http://www.noaa.gov/satellites.html
Extractions: Home Page Menu Air Quality Aviation Charts Climate Coasts Contacts Diving Drought Fire Weather Fisheries Floods Hurricanes Jobs Lightning Meet the Administrator Navigation Ocean NOAA Leadership Past Weather Podcast Question of the Month Research RSS Satellites Search this site Site Map Solar and Space Storm Watch Tornadoes Tsunamis Turtles Volcanoes Weather Weather Data Whales NOAA Satellites and Information Service National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service) NESDIS operates the satellites and manages the processing and distribution of millions of bits of data and images these satellites produce daily. The prime customer for the satellite data is the NOAA National Weather Service, which uses satellite data to create forecasts for television, radio and weather advisory services. Click here for the home page of NOAA Satellites and Information Service NOAA's operational environmental satellite system is composed of: geostationary
STD Digital SMS Solar & Space Weather Services Homepage Our digital SMS Service is the most comprehensive solar and space weather monitoringservice available, with over 23 types of information that can be http://www.spacew.com/sms/
Extractions: Available services range from the real-time notification of the occurrence of solar flare activity to the receipt of new observations of auroral activity (northern lights) from the global auroral activity observation network. Specific types of space environment parameters can also be monitored in real-time, such as the interplanetary magnetic field, solar wind velocities, solar wind densities, solar wind temperatures, energetic proton populations, the detection of the arrival of interplanetary shock waves, energetic electron populations, estimated polar cap potentials, and much more. You have complete control over what you receive. You set the thresholds that determine when SMS messages are delivered to you. You can even set up your services so that SMS material is only delivered to you during specific times of the day or night. And you can remotely control the SMS server while in the field by sending e-mail messages to the server.
SpaceRef Europe Scientists weather a space storm to find its origin Researcher Warns spaceweather Hole Blocks Manned Mars Mission http://eu.spaceref.com/
Extractions: Supernova Explosion May Have Caused Mammoth Extinction [Monday, September 26, 2005] A distant supernova that exploded 41,000 years ago may have led to the extinction of the mammoth, according to research that will be presented by nuclear scientist Richard Firestone of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Full Story
Policy Implications Of Space Weapons Section 2 of AAAS report, The Physics of space Security. largescale weathermonitoring for weather forecasting. astronomy http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/space_weapons/page.cfm?pageID=1771
Space Environment Main parameters of space weather in real time. bureau for realtime monitoringof solar and geophysical events, research in solar-terrestrial physics, http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/astron/sw/
Extractions: Space Weather Now - Current parameters of Space Weather like as X-ray Flux and Solar Flares, Proton Flux and Solar Radiation Storms, Solar Wind and Geomagnetic Storms. There are real time graphics. NOAA Space Weather Scales - The NOAA Space Weather Scales were introduced as a way to communicate to the general public the current and future space weather conditions and their possible effects on people and systems. One of the huge solar flare like example of space weather disturbance. Essential Links www.noaa.gov - NOAA Space Weather Scales for Geomagnetic Storms, Solar Radiation Storms and Radio Blackouts. NOAA Space Environment Center -The official U.S. government bureau for real-time monitoring of solar and geophysical events, research in solar-terrestrial physics, and forecasting solar and geophysical disturbances. SpaceWeather.com -daily updates and news about solar flares, coronal mass ejections and geomagnetic activity Every week prediction of solar activity by IZMIRAN (rus.).
SPACE.com -- Surviving Space: Risks To Humans On The Moon And Mars If the spaceship doesn t kill you, the radiation could. But NASA is learning howto manage these and other risks of putting humans back in space. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_dangers_040120.html
Extractions: There is no "biggest danger" in setting up a permanent lunar presence or sending people to Mars, says John Charles, an enthusiastic proponent of both ideas and a NASA analyst of the costs and risks of human space flight: "There are several." Launch, landing and re-entry are perhaps the riskiest moments of any space venture, history shows. But on long missions, what would otherwise be minor threats could become at best serious limitations or at worst deadly disasters. Basking in the glow of President Bush's call for sending humans back to the Moon as early as 2015 and then eventually to the red planet, Charles, who works at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, offered up his danger list yesterday: Lack of a medical facility could turn a mundane injury into a life-threatening situation; "Psychosocial" pressure will be high in a small group isolated for months or years; Zero or reduced gravity causes bone and muscle loss;
