SWENET Developers Forum 5th European Space Weather Week – Splinter Session 1

Date (edit footer line)Presentation title (edit footer line in menu "View / Head and Footer line") 2 Agenda Presentation and discussion –Review of the minutes and actions from the last meeting. –Outlook and perspectives (A.Glover) –Current status of the SWENET Infrastructure (etamax) –Presentation of index quality statistics functions (etamax/D.Heynderickx) –Overview of the status of the SDAs (etamax/all) –Presentation of new SDAs Discussion items –New ideas and developments for 2009 –Needs and expectations of the SWENET infrastructure for 2009 –Needed Features For scientific users For service developers –Data Requirements

Date (edit footer line)Presentation title (edit footer line in menu "View / Head and Footer line") 3 Objectives Review the status and perspectives of the Space Weather European Network (SWENET) and the SDAs –SWENET is being maintained and will continue being developed with new data and functionalities in the future Index quality statistics comparing predictions to actual data for the SDAs was implemented –25 SDAs are still operational 15 are providing data to the SWENET database Short status report was provided by various SDAs –GIFINT, SWACI, BINCAST, SWIMMIC, AurorasNow. GICNow! 3 new SDAs are planned – ASAP provides Automated Prediction of Significant Solar Flares –Discussion ongoing with DIAS (NOA) and SEP Prediction (University of Malaga)

Date (edit footer line)Presentation title (edit footer line in menu "View / Head and Footer line") 4 Discussion Index quality statistics was welcomed as tool to analyse the quality of predictions –Currently only last month and annual trend are provided. It would be interesting to archive the plots for reference Need for more detailed information on how indices and data is generated –Facilitate comparison and statistics A classification of the data by categories (currently by source only) would improve accessibility to the database –An example of such a reorganisation was presented SDAs are interested in information on the users –Statistics are provided on the accesses to the SDAs via SWENET portal Users are often reluctant to pay for the services

Date (edit footer line)Presentation title (edit footer line in menu "View / Head and Footer line") 5 etamax space GmbH Richard-Wagner-Str. 1 D Braunschweig Tel +49 (0) Fax +49 (0)