Space Weather Services for Civil Aviation—Challenges and Solutions

Remote Sensing

Haris Haralambous¹  Ari-Matti Harri²  Kirsti Kauristie²  Tiera Laitinen²  Kari Österberg²  Volker Wilken³  Martin Kriegel³  Jens Berdermann³  Dario Sabbagh⁴  Emanuele Pica⁴  Loredana Perrone⁴  Luca Spogli⁴  Vincenzo Romano⁴  Claudio Cesaroni⁴  Andriy Zalizovski⁵  Lukasz Tomasik⁵  Iwona Stanislawska⁵  Bert van den Oord⁶  Eelco Doornbos⁶  Kasper van Dam⁶  Marcin Latocha⁷  Peter Beck⁷  Petra Vanlommel⁸  Luciano Rodriguez⁸  Jesse Andries⁸  Mark Dierckxsens⁸  Judith de Patoul⁸  Yana Maneva⁸  Erwin De Donder⁸  David Berghmans⁸  Tobias Verhulst⁸  Mpho Tshisaphungo⁹  Mark Gibbs^1,10  Krista Hammond^1,10  Edmund Henley^1,10 

[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Frederick University, 7, Y. Frederickou Str., Pallouriotisa, Nicosia 1036, Cyprus;Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Erik Palmènin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland;German Aerospace Center, Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Woldegker Chaussee 35, 17235 Neustrelitz, Germany;Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy;Polish Academy of Sciences, Space Research Center, Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland;Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Utrechtseweg 297, 3731 GA De Bilt, The Netherlands;Seibersdorf Labor GmbH, Campus Seibersdorf, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria;Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium;South African National Space Agency, Space Science, Hospital Street, Hermanus 7200, South Africa;UK Met Office (UKMO), FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK;

关键词: space weather;    aviation;    radiation;    global navigation satellite systems;    HF communication;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs13183685

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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 Organization (ICAO). Advisories are disseminated in three impact areas: radiation levels at flight altitudes, GNSS-based navigation and positioning, and HF communication. The review, which is based on the experiences of the authors from two years of running pilot ICAO services, describes empirical models behind PECASUS products and lists ground- and space-based sensors, providing inputs for the models and 24/7 manual monitoring activities. As a concrete example of PECASUS performance, its products for a post-storm ionospheric F2-layer depression event are analyzed in more detail. As PECASUS models are particularly tailored to describe F2-layer thinning, they reproduce observations more accurately than the International Reference Ionosphere model (IRI(STORM)), but, on the other hand, it is recognized that the service performance is much affected by the coverage of its input data. Therefore, more efforts will be directed toward systematic measuring of the availability, timeliness and quality of the data provision in the next steps of the service development.

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