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ST17-A012

Space Weather Monitoring andForecasting Activities in NICTT. Nagatsuma, S. Watari,and K. T. Murata
Space Weather and Environment Informatics
Laboratory
Applied Electromagnetic Research InstituteNational Institute of Information andCommunications Technology

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About NICT
• Location：Koganei, Tokyo + several branches inJapan• Number of staff: ~800 including 300 ofpermanent researchers and 300 of Post Doc.
(~20 staffs in space environment group)• The Only national institute in Japan forInformation Technology (basically researchorganization)• The originality of our institute was inionospheric observations for monitoring shortwave propagations• Our study fields expand not only narrowmeaning of IT, but also wide areas.

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ISES / Regional Warning Center Tokyo, Japan

Every afternoon, we make a daily forecast (solar flare,geomagnetic activity, proton event, condition of radio wavepropagation) by the meeting.

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WDC for Ionosphere• Established on IGY year 1957
• Archiving mainly ionospheric verticalsoundings of four Japanese and 141
worldwide stations.
• Items of ionospheric data– Ionospheric vertical soundings– Todside soudings– Oblique Incidence Soundings– Absorption– Ionospheric drifts and backscatter– Whistlers and VLF– Atmospheric Radio NoiseNational Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Broadcasting of SWx informationon the Web, e-mail, etc.
http://www.nict.go.jp

NICT Space Weather Portal
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/sw_portal/sw_portal.html

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New product for publicity and education- Weekly Space Weather News (trial version)-

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NICT Space Weather Monitoring Networks(NICT-SWM)
Magnetometer
HF radar(SuperDARN)

Magnetometer & HF radarobservations in Far East SiberiaSouth-East Asia low latitude
IOnospheric Network(SEALION)

Domestic Ionosonde
Network & Hiraiso
Solar Observatory

BiakIonosonde

Hiraiso Solar Observatory(Under National / International collaborations）

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Collaborating Institutes(International)
 University of Alaska, Fiarbanks （UAF) Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radio-wave Propagation,
Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (IKIR) King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL),Thailand
 Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Indonesia
 Hanoi Institute of Geophysics (HIG), Vietnamese Academy of Scienceand Technology, Vietnam
 Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR), Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China
 University of San Carlos, Philippine

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AOSWA: Asia-Oceania Space Weather Alliance

The main objective of the AOSWA is to make a regional
linkage of information of space weather for operations andresearches.
http://aoswa.nict.go.jp/

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NICT Real-Time Space Weather Simulator
Magnetic Field data
The Sun and Solar Wind Model
ACE Satellite(MDI/SOHO)(Solar Wind Data)
The Sun

Input

Visualize

The EarthSuper Computer

Input

Input

Visualize

Magnetosphere Model

Ionosphere and Thermosphere
ModelAntenna
Web Page

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Space Weather User’s Forum (2009/12/21)
Topics:•Tutorials from Space Environment Group•Geomagnetic survey on the sea ground(JAMSTEC)•SAR interferences due to plasma bubble(JAXA)•Satellite charging (JAXA)•Airplane navigation (MSAS:ENRI)•Astronauts radiation effect (NIRS)•Usage of space weather forecast by radio
amateur (JARL)•Solar power satellite and ionosphere(RISH)
Participants: more than 70

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Space Weather User’s Forum (2011/06/29)
Topics:•New space weather information service•Introduction of recent space weatheractivities•How to user space weather information•Aviation•Geomagnetic survey•HF communication•Navigation•Satellite operation•Usage of real-time simulation•Local meeting for each sector

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User / Customer’s needs
Major request• Nowcast / Forecast of solar/geomagnetic
activity.
• Nowcast / Forecast of space environment
around GEO and LEO.
• Nowcast / Forecast of inosospheric scintillation
and TEC map over Japan.
• Collecting practical needs of users / customers witheducating space weather effect.
• Now we start building a close relationship with JAXA, andJMA, etc.

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Questions?