1. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS NICT space weather activities Presented to CGMS-42 ad-hoc meeting on space weather, agenda item [3] Tsutomu NAGATSUMA Space Weather and Environment Informatics Laboratory, NICT

2. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Overview – NICT space weather activities  Introduction & Operation of space weather forecast  Space weather monitoring network (NICT-SWM)  Network of ground-based observations  Satellite data reception  Data acquisition of Himawari/SEDA data  Space weather modelling and simulation  Empirical modelling  Numerical modelling

3. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) 3 3 Field of Space Weather Satellite Anomaly due to space disturbances Ionospheric Disturbances GEO Sat. (More than 300) 3 GIC due to geomag. disturbances

4. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) IPS Radio and Space Services (Sydney, Australia) NOAA/SWPC (Boulder, U.S.A.) Natural Resource Canada (Ottawa, Canada) NICT (Tokyo, Japan) Beijing Astronomical Observatory (Beijing, China) National Physical Laboratory (New Deli, India) Hydrometeorological Service (Moscow, Russia) Space Research Center (Warsaw, Poland) Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Plague, Czech) Royal Observatory of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium) Lund Space Weather Center (Lund, Sweden) Hermanus Geomagnetic Observatory (Herumanus, South Africa) INPE (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil) RRA (Jeju, Korea) Space Weather Regional Warning Centers of International Space Environment Service (ISES)

5. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Real-time space weather monitoring Simulation results Flare forecast Magnetic field forecast High-energy particle forecast HF propagation forecast NICT Space Weather Forecast Center Web access : 158.057/month (May, 2013) No. of e-mail address : 9,271 5 Forecast information and data exchange and sharing among ISES SW forecast center Domestic users: satellite operator, aviation office and companies, power plant companies, HF telecommunicator / broadcaster, resource survey, Univ. and research institutes, amateur radio NICT Space Weather Forecast Center Solar activity and spaceenvironment are provided withWeb, email RSS and FAX. Pressrelease for significant event.

6. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Magnetometer & HF radar observations in Far East Siberia Domestic Ionosonde Network & Hiraiso Solar Observatory HF radar Hiraiso Solar Observatory Ionosonde South-East Asia low latitude IOnospheric Network (SEALION ) Magnetometer Ionospheric observation at Syowa Station Biak NICT Space Weather Monitoring Networks (Under National / International Collaborations)

7. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) New Space Environment monitoring system Monitoring vehicle (ACE, DSCOVR) Solar radio Solar wind Data telemetry Parabolic antenna with 8m of diameter inside Radome Parabolic antenna with 11m of diameter receiver Wideband Solar radio telescope ・ Monitoring solar eruption event and estimating arrival time of the shock toward the Earth. ・ Longer lead-time ・ Hiraiso Observatory => Yamagawa Observatory Wideband Solar radio telescope ・ Monitoring solar eruption event and estimating arrival time of the shock toward the Earth. ・ Longer lead-time ・ Hiraiso Observatory => Yamagawa Observatory Solar wind data reception system ・ Receiving the solar wind observation data obtained from ACE/DISCOVR ・ About one hour lead-time with precise information of solar wind can be obtained ・ Koganei headquarters Solar wind data reception system ・ Receiving the solar wind observation data obtained from ACE/DISCOVR ・ About one hour lead-time with precise information of solar wind can be obtained ・ Koganei headquarters Data Analyzing Provide space weather information via web and email

8. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Proton Sensor (8 Units) Electron Sensor Longitude: ~140 deg. Himawari-8 Launch: 2014 Himawari-9 Launch; 2016 - High-energy particle environment over Japanese sector will be monitored by SEDA. - Near-real time SEDA data will be provided from JMA to NICT. We will provide SEDA data as part of space weather information. Space Environment Data Acquisition Monitor (SEDA) will be on board Himawari-8,9 ItemsDescription Number of ChannelsProtons : 8 (individual 8 sensor elements) Electrons : 8 (8 stacked plates in one elements) Energy RangeProtons : 15 MeV – 100 MeV Electrons : 0.2 MeV – 5 MeV Time Resolution10 sec. Field of ViewProtons : ± 39.35 deg. Electrons : ± 78.3 deg.

9. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Radiation Belt Electron Flux Forecast Based on Empirical Model http://seg-web.nict.go.jp/radi/en/

10. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Numerical Modelling (Simulations) [Nagatasuma, 2014] Global Magnetospheric MHD Simulation The Ground-to-Topside Model of Atmosphere and Ionosphere for Aeronomy (GAIA)

11. Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Thank you for your attention