# Presentation: 684407

## End User Task GroupStatus Report and Plans for 2008

**Glover, E. Daly**
**ESA Space Environments and Effects Section, ESTEC, Noordwijk**
**On behalf of the End Users TG**

## The Group

- ILWS “End users” refers to domains affected by space weather
- Including but not limited to: spacecraft operations, communications, navigation, manned spaceflight, power transmission...
- SC recognises that although ILWS is targeted at the science of “governing processes”, end users views are important
- This talk will:
- Review the charter, composition and workplan
- Present report on preliminary discussions and data collection activities
- Propose (slight) modifications to workplan
- Report on NOAA/SWPC draft white paper
- Report on plans for 2008

## Some Recent Developments in Space Weather Applications

- WMO
- Exec Council will discuss a resolution this month to assess possible support of ISES,
- brings RWCs into a meteorological framework
- NOAA/SWPC reorganisation and refocusing
- to concentrate on transition of research to operational services and products
- part of the US weather service
- ESA is investigating a possible new optional programme on Space Situational Awareness
- would include an element of operational space weather
- decision expected at ESA Council at Ministerial Level, Nov. 2008

## End Users TG Membership

- Current Members =
- Eamonn Daly (ESA, chair); Alexi Glover (ESA); David Boteler (ISES); Terry Onsager (NOAA/SWPC); Maki Akioka (Japan);  Mike Hapgood (ESA SWWT)
- Proposed new members =
- Neil Zapp (NASA/SRAG), Michael Hesse (CCMC)

## Charter: some updates

- Review current understanding of end-user needs
- Identify measurement, modeling and knowledge requirements supporting these needs
- Evaluate how current and future ILWS missions and associated modeling activities support end user needs
- From 1, 2 & 3 determine user needs that are not addressed by the present set of existing or planned missions and associated modeling activities
- Make recommendations for ILWS members to address:
- key areas to be targeted by ILWS members in order to fill gaps identified in (4).
- Candidate areas for mission and/or modelling initiative coordination
- New initiatives perhaps  not yet considered by ILWS member and partner agencies
- Improved data exploitation and modeling serving end-users (ref point 3), in the context of ILWS.
- Coordination with other groups a requirement e.g. ISES, COSPAR PSW

## Workplan: Key Tasks

- Recommend improved data & resource exploitation in terms of end user needs

- Education
- & outreach?

## End User Requirements: Initial Survey

- Resources consulted & to be consulted
- ESA Space Weather Applications Initiative:
- Feasibility Study of a European Space Weather Programme (1999-2001) user requirements assessment
- Pilot Project Service Development Activities user requirements
- ESA Nanosatellite beacons for space weather monitoring synthesis of measurement requirements built on user requirements
- ISES Regional Warning Centres: service provision in response to user requirements
- Including NOAA/SWPC User Requirements and Service Priorities
- NSWP assessment (2006)
**Other...?**

## Example User Requirements

- Preliminary

## SWPC White Paper(in preparation)

- The mission of ILWS is to “Stimulate, strengthen, and coordinate space research to understand the governing processes of the connected Sun-Earth System as an integrated entity.”
- As a task within this mission, propose that effort be initiated **to cultivate heliophysics research activities focused on coordinated worldwide needs for space weather information**.
- Determine the international needs for space weather information.
-  Identify the current and planned data sources.
- Determine the ability of current models to provide the needed space weather information (not necessarily in real time).
- Work toward the development of coordinated international space weather modeling capabilities.

## Workplan 2008

- First task to complete group membership
- Complete review of user needs and service priorities
- Compare with complete ILWS mission list and (ideally) list of measurements being made/to be made
- Solicit inputs & feedback from ILWS modelling community
- Formulate preliminary recommendations
- Propose to increase visibility of group via website for information exchange:
- _[http://esa-spaceweather.net/ilws-endusers](http://esa-spaceweather.net/ilws-endusers)_
- Progress will be presented and inputs solicited during next ISES meeting, COSPAR PSW business meeting this summer (both Jul/08) & next SWWT meeting (Nov ’08).
- Expected that a TG report will be produced  late 2008 with ~completed tables and preliminary recommendations