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  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,780 Views
27 Pages

The Status of Space Weather Infrastructure and Research in Africa

  • Paul Baki,
  • Babatunde Rabiu,
  • Christine Amory-Mazaudier,
  • Rolland Fleury,
  • Pierre J. Cilliers,
  • Joseph Adechinan,
  • Anas Emran,
  • Aziza Bounhir,
  • Claudio Cesaroni and
  • Jean-Louis Zerbo
  • + 17 authors

5 December 2023

Space weather science has been a growing field in Africa since 2007. This growth in infrastructure and human capital development has been accompanied by the deployment of ground-based observing infrastructure, most of which was donated by foreign ins...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,477 Views
22 Pages

The CAESAR Project for the ASI Space Weather Infrastructure

  • M. Laurenza,
  • D. Del Moro,
  • T. Alberti,
  • R. Battiston,
  • S. Benella,
  • F. Benvenuto,
  • F. Berrilli,
  • I. Bertello,
  • B. Bertucci and
  • P. Zuccon
  • + 85 authors

6 January 2023

This paper presents the project Comprehensive spAce wEather Studies for the ASPIS prototype Realization (CAESAR), which aims to tackle the relevant aspects of Space Weather (SWE) science and develop a prototype of the scientific data centre for Space...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
13,408 Views
46 Pages

Physics of Space Weather Phenomena: A Review

  • Ashok Kumar Singh,
  • Asheesh Bhargawa,
  • Devendraa Siingh and
  • Ram Pal Singh

In the last few decades, solar activity has been diminishing, and so space weather studies need to be revisited with more attention. The physical processes involved in dealing with various space weather parameters have presented a challenge to the sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,503 Views
15 Pages

Space Weather Effects on Satellites

  • Rositsa Miteva,
  • Susan W. Samwel and
  • Stela Tkatchova

22 August 2023

The study presents a concise overview on the main effects on satellites due to space weather drivers compared to the well-known interplanetary, magnetospheric and ground-based consequences. The solar-activity-driven influences include specific physic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,261 Views
30 Pages

The Space and Terrestrial Weather Variations as Possible Factors for Ischemia Events in Saint Petersburg

  • Olga M. Stupishina,
  • Elena G. Golovina,
  • Sergei N. Noskov,
  • Gennady B. Eremin and
  • Sergei A. Gorbanev

21 December 2021

The Space and Terrestrial Weather (Weather Complex) impact on ischemia cases in Saint Petersburg is investigated. The results show the main feature of the Weather Complex when it was related to the days of the different ischemia situations in the dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,297 Views
14 Pages

Star Wars? Space Weather and Electricity Market: Evidence from China

  • Tong Wu,
  • Zhe You,
  • Mengqi Gong and
  • Jinhua Cheng

26 August 2021

This paper aims to investigate the impact of space weather on China’s electricity market. Based on data products provided by NOAA and the National Energy Administration in China, this paper uses solar wind velocity as a solar weather indicator and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,089 Views
13 Pages

Transmission Lines in Poland and Space Weather Effects

  • Agnieszka Gil,
  • Renata Modzelewska,
  • Szczepan Moskwa,
  • Agnieszka Siluszyk,
  • Marek Siluszyk,
  • Anna Wawrzynczak,
  • Mariusz Pozoga and
  • Sebastian Domijanski

9 May 2020

We analyze the solar influence of space weather events on Polish energy infrastructure via geomagnetic disturbances. We consider two time intervals of very different levels of solar activity (SA) in the course of the solar activity cycle 24: 2010&mda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,672 Views
11 Pages

Spitzer Resurrector Mission: Advantages for Space Weather Research and Operations

  • Shawn M. Usman,
  • Giovanni G. Fazio,
  • Christopher A. Grasso,
  • Ryan C. Hickox,
  • Cameo Lance,
  • William B. Rideout,
  • Daveanand M. Singh,
  • Howard A. Smith,
  • Angelos Vourlidas and
  • Salma Benitez
  • + 5 authors

In 1979, NASA established the Great Observatory program, which included four telescopes (Hubble, Compton, Chandra, and Spitzer) to explore the Universe. The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 into solar orbit, gradually drifting away from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,944 Views
23 Pages

21 February 2025

The technology of satellite orbit prediction (OP) is crucial in space engineering. However, it is difficult to precisely predict medium and long-term orbit for the low Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites because of time-varying space weather and inaccurate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,586 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2024

In computer vision, eliminating the effects of adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow, and fog on images is a key research challenge. Existing studies primarily focus on image restoration for single weather types, while methods addressing imag...

  • Review
  • Open Access
117 Views
33 Pages

Regulatory and Spectrum Challenges for Passive Space Weather Monitoring

  • Valeria Leite,
  • Tarcisio Bakaus,
  • Mateus Cardoso,
  • Marco Antonio Bockoski de Paula and
  • Alison Moraes

Space weather monitoring depends critically on passive sensor systems that detect and measure natural solar and geospace emissions without transmitting radio frequency energy. These include riometers, solar radio monitors, interplanetary scintillatio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
17,064 Views
28 Pages

6 March 2021

A systematic review of heliobiological studies of the last 25 years devoted to the study of the potential influence of space weather factors on human health and well-being was carried out. We proposed three criteria (coordinates), according to which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,569 Views
18 Pages

5 May 2014

This paper proposes a space weather forecasting system at geostationary orbit for high-energy electron flux (>2 MeV). The forecasting model involves multiple sensors on multiple satellites. The sensors interconnect and evaluate each other to predic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,003 Views
10 Pages

12 May 2022

Estimating and predicting space weather is important to the space industry and space missions. The driver of space weather, especially near the Earth, is solar activity, the study of which is an important task. In particular, there is a direction of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,870 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2022

A comprehensive statistical analysis on the properties and accompanied phenomena of all M-class solar flares (as measured in soft X-rays) in the last two solar cycles (1996–2019) is presented here with a focus on their space weather potential....

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,167 Views
16 Pages

On Some Challenges for National and Global Space Weather Services

  • Maria A. Sergeeva,
  • Juan Americo Gonzalez-Esparza,
  • Victor Jose Gatica-Acevedo,
  • Luis Xavier Gonzalez,
  • Pedro Corona-Romero,
  • Ernesto Aguilar-Rodriguez,
  • Angela Melgarejo-Morales,
  • Isaac David Orrala-Legorreta,
  • Julio Cesar Mejia-Ambriz and
  • Jose Juan Gonzalez-Aviles

6 October 2023

Space Weather (SW) hazards are discussed in terms of the operation of national SW services and global SW centers for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The definition of threshold values of monitored parameters which are used to id...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,910 Views
24 Pages

Space Weather Services for Civil Aviation—Challenges and Solutions

  • Kirsti Kauristie,
  • Jesse Andries,
  • Peter Beck,
  • Jens Berdermann,
  • David Berghmans,
  • Claudio Cesaroni,
  • Erwin De Donder,
  • Judith de Patoul,
  • Mark Dierckxsens and
  • Kari Österberg
  • + 25 authors

15 September 2021

This paper presents a review on the PECASUS service, which provides advisories on enhanced space weather activity for civil aviation. The advisories are tailored according to the Standards and Recommended Practices of the International Civil Aviation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,585 Views
16 Pages

8 May 2019

An ionospheric spatial decorrelation is one of the most dominant error factors that affects the availability of safety-critical differential global navigation satellite systems (DGNSS). This is because systems apply significant conservatism on the er...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,364 Views
15 Pages

Space Weather Effects from Observations by Moscow University Cubesat Constellation

  • Andrey V. Bogomolov,
  • Vitaliy V. Bogomolov,
  • Anatoly F. Iyudin,
  • Valery E. Eremeev,
  • Vladimir V. Kalegaev,
  • Irina N. Myagkova,
  • Vladislav I. Osedlo,
  • Vasiliy L. Petrov,
  • Oleg Y. Peretjat’ko and
  • Aleksandr P. Papkov
  • + 7 authors

Moscow State University is developing a project for a multi-satellite constellation intended for the monitoring of space radiation. A number of small satellites of CubeSat format were launched into selected orbits crossing the wide range of magnetic...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,346 Views
10 Pages

Enhancing Solar Radiation Storm Forecasting with Machine Learning and Physics Models at Korea Space Weather Center

  • Ji-Hoon Ha,
  • Jae-Hyung Lee,
  • JaeHun Kim,
  • Jong-Yeon Yun,
  • Sang Cheol Han and
  • Wonhyeong Yi

Solar radiation storms, caused by high-energy solar energetic particles (SEPs) released during solar flares or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), have a substantial impact on the Earth’s environment. These storms can disrupt satellite operations, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,495 Views
14 Pages

3 December 2021

Since their discovery, cosmic rays have been an integral part of the development of fundamental physics, from the discovery of radiation coming to the Earth from outer space and the identification of high-energy particles in it, as well as new fundam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,832 Views
17 Pages

Space Weather Effects on Heart Rate Variations: Sex Dependence

  • Maria-Christina Papailiou and
  • Helen Mavromichalaki

The effects of solar activity and the accompanying space weather events on human pathological conditions, physiological parameters and other psycho-physiological disturbances have been analyzed in numerous recent investigations. Moreover, many of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,443 Views
25 Pages

Geomagnetic Activity at Lampedusa Island: Characterization and Comparison with the Other Italian Observatories, Also in Response to Space Weather Events

  • Domenico Di Mauro,
  • Mauro Regi,
  • Stefania Lepidi,
  • Alfredo Del Corpo,
  • Guido Dominici,
  • Paolo Bagiacchi,
  • Giovanni Benedetti and
  • Lili Cafarella

6 August 2021

Regular automatic recordings of the time series of the magnetic field, together with routine manual absolute measurements for establishing dynamic baselines at Lampedusa Island—south of Sicily—Italy (geographic coordinates 35°31′N; 12°32′E, altitude...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,091 Views
11 Pages

The Spectrum of Global Electron Content: A New Potential Indicator of Space Weather Activity

  • Josep Maria Aroca-Farrerons,
  • Manuel Hernández-Pajares,
  • Haixia Lyu,
  • David Roma-Dollase,
  • Raul Orus-Perez,
  • Alberto García-Rigo,
  • Victoria Graffigna,
  • Germán Olivares-Pulido,
  • Enric Monte-Moreno and
  • Qi Liu
  • + 1 author

9 January 2024

The time evolution of the total number of free electrons in the Earth’s ionosphere, i.e., the Global Electron Content (GEC), during more than two solar cycles is analyzed in this work. The GEC time series has been extracted from the Global Iono...

  • Article
  • Open Access
780 Views
28 Pages

21 October 2025

We propose State-DynAttn, a hybrid architecture for robust air traffic flow prediction under weather disruptions, which integrates state-space models (SSMs) with dynamic graph attention to address the challenges of long-range dependency modeling and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,655 Views
14 Pages

Raman–Infrared Spectral Correlation of an Artificially Space-Weathered Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorite

  • Ildiko Gyollai,
  • Sándor Biri,
  • Zoltán Juhász,
  • Csilla Király,
  • Richárd Rácz,
  • Dániel Rezes,
  • Béla Sulik,
  • Máté Szabó,
  • Zoltán Szalai and
  • Ákos Kereszturi
  • + 2 authors

9 March 2024

Raman and infrared measurements of the same locations were conducted on a northwest African (NWA) 10580 CO3 meteorite sample, before and after three proton irradiations (1 keV ion energy using 1011, 1014, and 1017 ion/cm2 fluent values), to simulate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,061 Views
26 Pages

Signatures of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles and Ionospheric Scintillations from Magnetometer and GNSS Observations in the Indian Longitudes during the Space Weather Events of Early September 2017

  • Ram Kumar Vankadara,
  • Sampad Kumar Panda,
  • Christine Amory-Mazaudier,
  • Rolland Fleury,
  • Venkata Ratnam Devanaboyina,
  • Tarun Kumar Pant,
  • Punyawi Jamjareegulgarn,
  • Mohd Anul Haq,
  • Daniel Okoh and
  • Gopi Krishna Seemala

29 January 2022

Scintillation due to ionospheric plasma irregularities remains a challenging task for the space science community as it can severely threaten the dynamic systems relying on space-based navigation services. In the present paper, we probe the ionospher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,517 Views
21 Pages

Low-Latitude Ionospheric Responses and Coupling to the February 2014 Multiphase Geomagnetic Storm from GNSS, Magnetometers, and Space Weather Data

  • Andres Calabia,
  • Chukwuma Anoruo,
  • Munawar Shah,
  • Christine Amory-Mazaudier,
  • Yury Yasyukevich,
  • Charles Owolabi and
  • Shuanggen Jin

24 March 2022

The ionospheric response and the associated mechanisms to geomagnetic storms are very complex, particularly during the February 2014 multiphase geomagnetic storm. In this paper, the low-latitude ionosphere responses and their coupling mechanisms, dur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,562 Views
23 Pages

Formation of Lunar Swirls: Implication from Derived Nanophase Iron Abundance

  • Wanqi Zhao,
  • Xin Ren,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Yao Xiao and
  • Dawei Liu

8 April 2025

Lunar swirls are enigmatic features on the Moon’s surface, and their formation remains debated. Previous studies suggest that the distinctive spectral characteristics of lunar swirls result from the asymmetric space weathering between their bri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,055 Views
15 Pages

3 November 2023

We report ground-based measurements of the atmospheric electric field (Ez = −potential gradient (PG)) and current density (Jz) that were conducted at two locations in Israel. One is at the Emilio Segre cosmic ray station located on Mt. Hermon (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,809 Views
24 Pages

11 July 2020

The impact of inclement weather on traffic flow has been extensively studied in the literature. However, little research has unveiled how local weather conditions affect real-time traffic flows both spatially and temporally. By analysing the real-tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,048 Views
20 Pages

Total Electron Content PCA-NN Prediction Model for South-European Middle Latitudes

  • Anna Morozova,
  • Teresa Barata,
  • Tatiana Barlyaeva and
  • Ricardo Gafeira

21 June 2023

A regression-based model was previously developed to forecast total electron content (TEC) at middle latitudes. We present a more sophisticated model using neural networks (NN) instead of linear regression. This regional model prototype simulates and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,292 Views
19 Pages

PCA-MRM Model to Forecast TEC at Middle Latitudes

  • Anna L. Morozova,
  • Teresa Barata and
  • Tatiana Barlyaeva

15 February 2022

The total electron content (TEC) over the Iberian Peninsula was modelled using PCA-MRM models based on decomposition of the observed TEC series using the principal component analysis (PCA) and reconstruction of the daily modes’ amplitudes by a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,080 Views
17 Pages

16 December 2020

At some locations, especially in the auroral regions, the ionization of the E layer can dominate over that of the F2 layer, which is called the E layer dominated ionosphere (ELDI). In the present work we investigate the spatiotemporal variation of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,663 Views
16 Pages

27 August 2022

Accurate forecasts of the properties of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) prior to their arrival at Earth are unquestionably a key goal for space weather. Currently, there are several promising techniques for accomplishing this, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,836 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2022

Cosmic rays were discovered by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess in 1912 in a series of balloon experiments performed between 1911 and 1912. Cosmic rays are an integral part of fundamental and applied research in the field of solar–terrestrial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Citations
13,226 Views
34 Pages

24 July 2022

Space weather describes varying conditions between the Sun and Earth that can degrade Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) operations. Thus, these effects should be precisely and timely corrected for accurate and reliable GNSS applications. Tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,068 Views
23 Pages

22 December 2024

Recent advancements have led to a growing prevalence of studies examining ionospheric and atmospheric anomalies as potential precursors to earthquakes. In this context, the study involved analyzing variations in ionospheric total electron content (TE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,943 Views
24 Pages

14 October 2020

The Moon has a large potential for space exploration and mining valuable resources. In particular, 3He provides rich sources of non-radioactive fusion fuel to fulfill cislunar and Earth’s energy demands, if found economically feasible. The pres...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
16,689 Views
31 Pages

Radiation in the Atmosphere—A Hazard to Aviation Safety?

  • Matthias M. Meier,
  • Kyle Copeland,
  • Klara E. J. Klöble,
  • Daniel Matthiä,
  • Mona C. Plettenberg,
  • Kai Schennetten,
  • Michael Wirtz and
  • Christine E. Hellweg

14 December 2020

Exposure of aircrew to cosmic radiation has been recognized as an occupational health risk for several decades. Based on the recommendations by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), many countries and their aviation authorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
235 Views
23 Pages

13 February 2026

To address coverage gaps in high-latitude space weather monitoring caused by constraints in energy, bandwidth, and labeled samples, this study presents a systematic solution deployed in Hailar, China. We constructed a Cloud–Edge–Terminal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,782 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2024

In urban areas prone to extreme weather, it has become crucial to implement effective strategies to improve living conditions for residents reliant on medical and educational facilities. This research highlighted the importance of urban green spaces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,843 Views
18 Pages

Concurrent Effects between Geomagnetic Storms and Magnetospheric Substorms

  • Tommaso Alberti,
  • Davide Faranda,
  • Giuseppe Consolini,
  • Paola De Michelis,
  • Reik V. Donner and
  • Vincenzo Carbone

An accurate understanding of dissimilarities in geomagnetic variability between quiet and disturbed periods has the potential to vastly improve space weather diagnosis. In this work, we exploit some recently developed methods of dynamical system theo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,005 Views
24 Pages

A Potential Link between Space Weather and Atmospheric Parameters Variations: A Case Study of November 2021 Geomagnetic Storm

  • Mauro Regi,
  • Alessandro Piscini,
  • Patrizia Francia,
  • Marcello De Lauretis,
  • Gianluca Redaelli and
  • Giuseppina Carnevale

7 September 2024

On 4 November 2021, during the rising phase of solar cycle 25, an intense geomagnetic storm (Kp = 8−) occurred. The effects of this storm on the outer magnetospheric region up to the ionospheric heights have already been examined in previous in...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,273 Views
12 Pages

The Payload Design of the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP), for Space Weather and Solar Flares X-Ray Polarimetry

  • Giovanni Lombardi,
  • Sergio Fabiani,
  • Ettore Del Monte,
  • Emanuele Di Meo,
  • Andrea Lopez,
  • Marco Camponeschi,
  • Marco E. Biancolini,
  • Daniele Brienza,
  • Immacolata Donnarumma and
  • Emanuele Zaccagnino
  • + 2 authors

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a CubeSat mission orbiting the Earth aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP is a project in the framework of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,320 Views
8 Pages

This study investigates the aurora australis event of 19 March 1950, which was reported across multiple locations in Australia, including Hobart, Sydney, and as far north as Goondiwindi. Despite its significance as a historical space weather event, t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,883 Views
15 Pages

Dynamical Complexity in Geomagnetically Induced Current Activity Indices Using Block Entropy

  • Adamantia Zoe Boutsi,
  • Constantinos Papadimitriou,
  • Georgios Balasis,
  • Christina Brinou,
  • Emmeleia Zampa and
  • Omiros Giannakis

6 February 2025

Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) are a manifestation of space weather events at ground level. GICs have the potential to cause power failures in electric grids. The GIC index is a proxy of the ground geoelectric field derived solely from geoma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,341 Views
13 Pages

18 February 2022

During geomagnetic storm events, the highly variable solar wind energy input in the magnetosphere significantly alters the structure of the Earth’s upper atmosphere through the interaction of the ionospheric plasma with atmospheric neutrals. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,651 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2022

Prediction of ionospheric parameters, such as ionospheric F2 layer critical frequency (foF2) at low latitude regions is of significant interest in understanding ionospheric variation effects on high-frequency communication and global navigation satel...

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