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Conclusions
Our ISSI
International Team of experts worked on the following tasks:
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Development
of models to predict solar activity as driver of Space Weather |
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Modelling
and prediction of the radiation environment |
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Development
of a more comprehensive solar-terrestrial model |
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Cartography
of scientific expertise in Europe in terms of monitoring instruments, active
experiments, space missions, databases, and study of the European potential
to feed with observations real-time models |
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Development
of a prototype system for the on-line implementation of models
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Assessment
of the needs of the scientific and industrial community for space weather
services and evaluation of the users� satisfaction regarding the services
available through the prototype ESWWS |
The scientific outputs came
from the synthesis of the tasks described above. ISSI offered a perfectly quiet,
isolated and organized environment that allowed reaching the following results:
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Finalization
of the COST724 topical papers, including 51 scientific papers, presenting
the scientific progress achieved by the research teams from 28 countries.
The papers will be published by OPOCE and are currently available at http://cost724.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/.
Some selected papers will be published in a special issue of Acta
Geophysica (edited by Springer). The special issue is expected to be
appearing at the beginning of 2009. |
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Compilation
of the scientific results achieved by the COST724 participating teams in
four review papers that have been invited to be submitted to the Space
Science Reviews for publication. In each of these papers we present the
overview of recent advances in each domain (solar activity, the Earth�s
radiation environment, the coupled solar wind-magnetosphere system, space
weather effects on ionosphere and thermosphere) taking into account:
physical achievements, models and codes, monitoring systems and data bases. |
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The
prototype European Space Weather Portal (currently available at http://www.spaceweather.eu/)
demonstrating the on-line operation of the models and hosting information of
the catalogues of all European models, computer codes, databases and web
sites related to space weather. |
The major
output of our ISSI Team that should be highlighted is the coordination of
extensive discussions concerning the specification of future actions that could
lead to a more effective coordination of space weather activities at European
level. Following these discussions, the leader of the ISSI team (Anna Belehaki)
coordinated a new proposal submitted to COST �Developing Space Weather
Products and Services in Europe� and successfully evaluated. The new project
is expected to be inaugurated in Brussels in November 2008, in
conjunction with the Fifth European Space Weather Week.
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