Imagine the Sun as a giant battery that occasionally releases massive bursts of energy and particles. This project is like building a high-tech weather map and a set of tools to understand exactly how these bursts happen and where they go. By connecting the dots between different solar events, it helps us predict when a 'solar storm' might hit Earth's neighborhood.
Satellite and power grid operators suffer from unpredictable solar eruptions that cause hardware failure and signal loss. There is a lack of integrated, easy-to-use tools that link different types of solar events to predict their impact on Earth.
Three interlinked catalogues of flares, CMEs, and SEP events, along with open-access data analysis and visualization tools.
If you are a satellite operator dealing with unpredictable signal outages caused by solar particles — this project developed interlinked catalogues and analysis tools that help predict the impact of solar energetic particle events. This allows for better shielding and operational planning to avoid hardware damage.
If you are a flight operations center dealing with radiation risks for polar flights — this project developed high-level multi-instrument datasets that clarify how solar eruptions release high energy particles. This data helps in optimizing flight paths to avoid high-radiation zones during solar events.
If you are a grid manager dealing with geomagnetically induced currents that can blow transformers — this project developed tools for visualizing solar eruption datasets. This enables better early warning systems for coronal mass ejections that trigger grid instability.
Based on available project data, the analysis and visualisation tools and datasets will be distributed openly to the scientific community, suggesting no direct purchase price.
The project focuses on providing data products and tools for the wider scientific community. Based on available project data, it is currently a research-driven effort rather than an industrial-scale product.
The project explicitly states that tools and datasets will be openly distributed, implying an open-access or open-source licensing model.
The project runs from 2024-01-01 to 2027-02-28, with deliverables being produced throughout this period.
Based on available project data, the tools are designed to analyze data from ESA's Solar Orbiter and NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which are standard sources for space weather monitoring.
The consortium is purely academic and research-oriented, consisting of 4 universities and 1 research organization across 4 countries. With an industry ratio of 0%, the project is driven by scientific discovery rather than commercial application, meaning the output will likely be open-source tools rather than proprietary software.
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