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ISWI - Germany NEWS: AEF e.V. is supporting Mr. Carsten Baumanns' (IAP) participation at the 2011 ISWI-European Summer School in Space Science with a grant of 300 Euro for participation fee and accomodation costs. Mr. Baumann is Master-Degree student studying extraterrestrial debris in Earth's atmosphere utilizing radar techniques and is AEF's newest memeber. He was awarded with this student grant after answering a recent call for a student grant to the 2011 ISWI-European Summer School in Space Science .
From the report of the United Nations General Assembly on December 28th, 2010:
Committee on the Peaceful; Uses of Outer Space
Reports on national and regional activities related to the International Space Weather Initiative, p.4 ff
[4 November 2010]
Solar and space weather research is performed in Germany at several universities and research institutes. The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University of Goettingen, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) and the University of Kiel make essential contributions to solar research. Data analysis is based on satellite missions such as STEREO, ACE, SOHO and Proba 2. AIP contributes to the European LOFAR project by studying solar radio emissions. Besides measurements of solar radiation, monitoring of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) is an important issue. Measurements by various particle detectors have shown that the intensity varies on different time scales because the Sun’s activity and geomagnetic variation. The role of interplanetary coronal mass ejections in causing Forbush decreases, and corotating interaction regions causing recurrent decreases in the GCR intensity observed on Earth, has been well-established for the last 20 years. In order to get a better understanding of the geomagnetic filter over the solar cycle, the Christian-Albrechts-Universität of Kiel, DESY Zeuthen and the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa, agreed on a regular monitoring of the GCR intensity as a function of latitude, by developing a portable device that is planned to be installed on a research ship. The German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is ideally suited for the research campaign because it covers extensive geomagnetic latitudes (i.e. goes from the Arctic to the Antarctic) at least once per year. The University of Greifswald currently operates a muon detector for monitoring space weather effects. At the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft specific payloads capable of measuring solar radiation and plasma parameters are under development. Extreme ultraviolet fluxes are being measured by the ISSESA-SolACES experiment. New payloads and missions are discussed closely with the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company Astrium Friedrichshafen. The Swarm satellite mission of ESA is under preparation at the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is currently establishing the Space Weather Application Center-Ionosphere (SWACI) at its site in Neustrelitz (http://swaciweb.dlr.de). The project is essentially supported by the state government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. SWACI results contribute to the Space Weather European Network and are integrated in a number of projects of ESA and the seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. In particular, considerable efforts are made to contribute with a SWACI-based ionospheric data and information service to the space weather element of the Space Situational Awareness programme of ESA.
SWACI contributes directly to the International Space Weather Initiative through the Solar and Ionosphere Monitoring Network (SIMONE) by hosting a web platform for uploading, downloading, visualizing, analysing and archiving observation data. SIMONE consists of a network of very low frequency (VLF) receivers operated at various schools in the northern part of Germany. The VLF receivers, provided partly by Stanford University and developed partly under the leadership of the DLR School-Lab, are capable of monitoring sudden ionospheric disturbances caused by solar flares. Thus, SIMONE directly supports the International Space Weather Initiative activities initiated by Stanford University as part of the International Heliophysical Year.
SWACI also contributes to the establishment of an African dual frequency global positioning system (GPS) network. DLR is installing a high rate global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver capable of measuring radio scintillations at Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
Participation in conferences and meetings on the International Space Weather Initiative
N. Jakowski of DLR made a scientific and technical presentation entitled Space weather impact on radio systems to the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its forty-seventh session, in 2010.
C. Koch of DLR gave one lectures on Introduction to occultation techniques at the 1st International Space Weather Initiative summer school, in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, on 28 October till 4 November 2010.
Useful ISWI and related links
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DLR SWACI Service
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SIMONE Portal at DLR
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