Remote Sensing (Sep 2021)
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,
- Eelco Doornbos,
- Mark Gibbs,
- Krista Hammond,
- Haris Haralambous,
- Ari-Matti Harri,
- Edmund Henley,
- Martin Kriegel,
- Tiera Laitinen,
- Marcin Latocha,
- Yana Maneva,
- Loredana Perrone,
- Emanuele Pica,
- Luciano Rodriguez,
- Vincenzo Romano,
- Dario Sabbagh,
- Luca Spogli,
- Iwona Stanislawska,
- Lukasz Tomasik,
- Mpho Tshisaphungo,
- Kasper van Dam,
- Bert van den Oord,
- Petra Vanlommel,
- Tobias Verhulst,
- Volker Wilken,
- Andriy Zalizovski,
- Kari Österberg
Affiliations
- Kirsti Kauristie
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Erik Palmènin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
- Jesse Andries
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Peter Beck
- Seibersdorf Labor GmbH, Campus Seibersdorf, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria
- Jens Berdermann
- German Aerospace Center, Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Woldegker Chaussee 35, 17235 Neustrelitz, Germany
- David Berghmans
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Claudio Cesaroni
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
- Erwin De Donder
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Judith de Patoul
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Mark Dierckxsens
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Eelco Doornbos
- Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Utrechtseweg 297, 3731 GA De Bilt, The Netherlands
- Mark Gibbs
- UK Met Office (UKMO), FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK
- Krista Hammond
- UK Met Office (UKMO), FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK
- Haris Haralambous
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Frederick University, 7, Y. Frederickou Str., Pallouriotisa, Nicosia 1036, Cyprus
- Ari-Matti Harri
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Erik Palmènin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
- Edmund Henley
- UK Met Office (UKMO), FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK
- Martin Kriegel
- German Aerospace Center, Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Woldegker Chaussee 35, 17235 Neustrelitz, Germany
- Tiera Laitinen
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Erik Palmènin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
- Marcin Latocha
- Seibersdorf Labor GmbH, Campus Seibersdorf, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria
- Yana Maneva
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Loredana Perrone
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
- Emanuele Pica
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
- Luciano Rodriguez
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Vincenzo Romano
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
- Dario Sabbagh
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
- Luca Spogli
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
- Iwona Stanislawska
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Space Research Center, Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
- Lukasz Tomasik
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Space Research Center, Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
- Mpho Tshisaphungo
- South African National Space Agency, Space Science, Hospital Street, Hermanus 7200, South Africa
- Kasper van Dam
- Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Utrechtseweg 297, 3731 GA De Bilt, The Netherlands
- Bert van den Oord
- Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Utrechtseweg 297, 3731 GA De Bilt, The Netherlands
- Petra Vanlommel
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Tobias Verhulst
- Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE), Ringlaan-Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
- Volker Wilken
- German Aerospace Center, Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Woldegker Chaussee 35, 17235 Neustrelitz, Germany
- Andriy Zalizovski
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Space Research Center, Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
- Kari Österberg
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Erik Palmènin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183685
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 18
p. 3685
Abstract
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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