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Asia‐Oceania Space Weather Alliance: AOSWA

Ken T. MURATA, Shinichi WATARI, Tsutomu NAGATSUMA, andMotokazu SHIKATANINational Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Applied Electromagnetic Research InstituteSpace Weather and Environment Informatics Laboratory
4‐2‐1 Nukui‐kita, Koganei 184‐8795 JAPANSpace Weather Regional Warning Centers ofInternational Space Environment Service (ISES)Space Research Center(Warsaw, Poland)
Lund Space Weather Center(Lund , Sweden)

Hydrometeorological Service

Natural Resource Canada(Moscow, Russia)(Ottawa, Canada)

Royal Observatory of Belgium(Brussels, Belgium)

NICT (Tokyo, Japan)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics

Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BeijingChina)(Plague, Czech)

NOAA/SWPC(Boulder , U.S.A.)

National Physical Laboratory
INPE (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil)(New Deli, India)
Hermanus Geomagnetic Observatory(Herumanus, South Africa)
IPS Radio and Space Services(Sydney, Australia)

Space Weather
Workshop @USA

Space Weather
Week @Europe
3The 1st AOSWA Kick-off meeting
12/03/2010 Bandung – Indonesia

Japan, Indonesia, Australia, India, and Malaysia

The main objective of the AOSWA is to make a regional linkage ofinformation of space weather for operations and researches.
4AOSWA Kick‐off meetings (so far)2010.12 ‐ LAPAN workshop• Kick‐off meeting between Japan, Indonesia, Australia, India, and Malaysia
2010.01.2 ‐ SEALION workshop@Thailand• Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, USA, Brazil, Thailand, Laos, Philippine , China and Japan• 2nd Kick‐off meeting of the AOSWA
2011.04 @NOAA, USA• Space Weather Workshop @NOAA, USA & ISES meeting 2011
• Local meeting between A‐O ISES countries
2011.08 ‐ AOGS@Taiwan

Today!

• AOGS; “Collaborative Researches and Operations of Space Weather Forecasting inAsia‐Oceania region”• 3rd kick‐off meeting of the AOSWA

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Associates (so far)
http://aoswa.nict.go.jp/associates.html

AOSWA mailing list
<AOSWA@ml.nict.go.jp>

13 organizations
8 countries

Join Us!
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AOSWA office @NICT/Japan• NICT Space Weather
Office– Director• Ken T. Murata– Administrative Officer• Shinichi Watari– Programme Officer• Tsutomu Nagatsuma– Secretariat• Motokazu Shikatani• Mail Address– sw‐project‐office@ml.nict.go.jp• その他– NICT is in charge of “temporal”
office– 4(5) organizations fromISEC/RWC will be the round‐robin office?

Data Preservation,
Stewardship and Application

Workshop/Collaboration/
Data Exchange

Industrial Use/
Practical Use

Research Works

Four functions

InternationalActivities
Information Exchange(Web site/News Letter)

Education/
Capacity Building
Space Weather School/
Text book & Contents

International Activities
COPUOSUN (United Nations)

Committee on thePeaceful Uses of Outer
SpaceWMO（World Meteorological Organization)

ISWI (International Space
Weather Initiative) WG
2009~2011
Long‐Term Sustainability WG
2011~2014

ICTSW (International
Coordinate Team for Space
Weather) 2009~

Space Weather Workshop
NOAA

Regional Space Weather Week/Workshop

9European Space WeatherWeek

Asia‐Oceania Space Weather
Alliance Workshop

Asia‐Oceania Space Weather Alliance Web Site
http://aoswa.nict.go.jp

Application Web Application

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STARS (Windows Application)“Solar”, “Geo‐space”, “Ionosphere”
and “Simulation” event list selectedby NICT SW researchers
Users manual

Click any event, and a data plotshows up with event
information

Event information

SW board (Web Application)
Make your original “Space Weather board” on your PC!

Data plot automatically updated(as original updated)
Data list(thumbnail)
Drop dataWeekly Space Weather News (Contents)
Weekly Space Weather News: A 5 min.
movie provided by NICT everyday.

Editor (to createEnglish caption)

Weekly Space Weather
News with English Captions

Concept of theSpacecraftSpace Weather Cloud@NICT
Ground‐based
Asia‐Oceania
Countries

Visualization(L3)

Provision(L2)
Web ServerAnalysis(L1)

Huge Storage
System (1PB)
A variety ofObservation Data

Supercomputers
Long‐term preservation(L0)

Large-Scale
Simulation Data

Discussion: next step?
• Office– Who in charge? (2011‐2012: NICT)• Workshop– When (How often) do we have the AOSWA workshop?
– What session? (Research? Business? Forum?)– Who organizes?

• Data/DB– How to exchange data? (How to “steward” data?)• Application– What kind of (web) application available/useful forpractical use and education?

• Information– Mailing List? Web? News Letter? Who is Editor?
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AOSWA Workshop (plan)
First AOSWA
Workshop• Schedule: Jan.‐Mar, 2011
• Venue: in an south‐east Asian country???
• organized by Japan (NICT)

Second AOSWA
Workshop• Schedule: Sep., 2011 ???
• Venue: South Korea (RRA) ???
• organized by South Korea (RRA) ???

Third AOSWA
Workshop

• TBD

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We have a local meeting after this session.
Anyone can join us. Stay here.

Weekly Space Weather News
http ://www.seg.nict.go.jp/wsw

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Ionospheric Disturbance via High-Resolution GPS-TEC

Region# of GPS Rec.

~1,200 receivers~1,600 receivers~830 receivers

GPSReceivers

TEC depletion due
to solar eclipse

Nighttime MSTID

Detrended
TEC Map(30sec,0.15x0.15)Asia‐Oceania GPS‐TEC map…

TEC variation due toAurora

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GPS-TEC at Sumatra island

Dense and wide‐coverage GPS receiver
network can reveal their spatial structures,propagation directions, and temporal
evolutions.

GPS receivers all over the world 5000 receiver data available online

CurrentNear Future Plan & Vision

TID?
EIA?

TID
EAI

Plasma Bubble?

EIA?
TID?

Plasma Bubble

EAITID

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Asia‐Oceania Region

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Observatories‐LAPAN‐ITB‐NICT network
via TEIN/APAN/JGN
Indonesia
BANDUNG2km
5.8GHｚObservatory(KOTOTABANG)

LAPAN

Cloud VPN

ITB

TEIN/APAN/JGN

Observatory(TANJUNGSARI)

Observatory(PONTIANAK)

Observatory(PAMEUNGPEUK)NICT23

Proposal“international” weekly space
weather news
NICT
Indonesian

Draft

ChineseKoreanRecording ‐> Edition

日本語字幕(Japanese Caption)

AOSWA

English