[G06-3] Ionosphere and space weather I

[G06-3-05] Contributions to real time and near real time Ionosphere Monitoring by IAG's RTIM-WG

^○Alberto Garcia-Rigo¹, David Roma-Dollase², Manuel Hernandez-Pajares¹, Zishen Li³, Michael Terkildsen⁴, German Olivares⁴, Reza Ghoddousi-Fard⁵, Denise Dettmering⁶, Eren Erdogan⁶, Haris Haralambous⁷, Yannick Beniguel⁸, Jens Berdermann⁹, Martin Kriegel⁹, Anna Krypiak-Gregorczyk¹⁰, Tamara Gulyaeva¹¹, Attila Komjathy¹², Panagiotis Vergados¹², Joachim Feltens¹⁹, Rene Zandbergen¹³, Tim Fuller-Rowell¹⁴, David Altadill¹⁵, Nicolas Bergeot¹⁶, Andrzej Krankowski¹⁷, Loukis Agrotis¹⁸, Ivan Galkin²⁰, Raul Orus-Perez²¹, Estefania Blanch¹⁵ (1.UPC-IonSAT research group, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 2.Department of Engineering: Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Spain, 3.Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, 4.Bureau of Meteorology, Space Weather Services, Australia, 5.Canadian Geodetic Survey, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) / Government of Canada, Canada, 6.Deutsches Geodatisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universitat Munchen (DGFI-TUM), Germany, 7.Frederick University Cyprus, Cyprus, 8.IEEA, France, 9.Institute of Communications and Navigation, DLR, Germany, 10.Institute of Geodesy, UWM, Poland, 11. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, 12. NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, USA, 13. Navigation Support Office, ESA-ESOC, Germany, 14. NOAA affiliate, USA, 15. Observatori de l'Ebre (OE), CSIC - Universitat Ramon Llull, 43520 Roquetes, Spain, 16. Planetology and Reference Systems, Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), Belgium, 17. Space Radio-Diagnostics Research Centre, UWM (SRRC/UWM), Poland, 18. SYMBAN Limited c/o Navigation Support Office, ESA-ESOC, Germany, 19. Telespazio VEGA Deutschland GmbH c/o Navigation Support Office, ESA-ESOC, Germany, 20. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Space Science Lab, USA)

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The status and the research carried out within the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Real Time Ionosphere Monitoring Working Group (RTIM-WG), which is part of IAG's Sub-Commission 4.3 Atmosphere Remote Sensing, will be presented.
Of particular interest within the research community is the analysis of St. Patrick's Day 2015 geomagnetic storm, which will be extended to account for correlations among the multiple independent real time and near real time (global or regional) ionospheric approaches. In this regard, ionospheric parameters, such as Total Electron Content (TEC), foF2, hmF2, B0, B1 and the ionospheric disturbance W-index, will be considered thanks to the complementary expertise of the WG members.
In addition, the analysis of real time and near real time VTEC Global Ionospheric Maps (GIMs) is another major goal within the team. In this context, the comprehensive study carried out in Roma-Dollase 2016 (D. Roma-Dollase, M. Hernandez-Pajares, A. Garcia-Rigo, D. Laurichesse, M. Schmidt, E. Erdogan, Y. Yuan, Zishen Li, J. Ma. Gomez-Cama and A. Krankowski, Real Time Global Ionospheric Maps: a low latency alternative to traditional GIMs. Beacon Satellite Symposium 2016, June 27 2016, Trieste, Italy) will be extended based on existing real time and near real time ionospheric VTEC models within the WG, supporting the IONEX format. In this context, validation based on external data from JASON dual-frequency altimeter will be performed.
Last but not least, experiences within the WG on dissemination and format of GIMs in order to properly support real time usage will be outlined to promote discussion on this open topic.