Topical Discussion Meeting - Current and future systems for operational space weather observations

Juha-Pekka Luntama, Elsayed Talaat, Andrew Monham, Tsutomu Nagatsuma
Thursday 8/11, 17:15-18:30
MTC 00.15, Small lecture room

Monitoring of the environment and the interaction of the Sun with the Earth, and near-Earth space weather effects has been explored and demonstrated well by current and former research (e.g., SOHO, ACE, STEREO etc.) and operational missions and instrumentation (DSCOVR, GOES, etc.). The global space weather community continues a discussion on the evolving requirements needed for operational space weather services.

In this meeting we will discuss the recent progress and developments in space weather services and observing architecture and discuss how current and planned observation capabilities will address stakeholder's needs and requirements.
Specifically, we plan to discuss an international system based on simultaneous observations positioned at both L1 and L5 Lagrangian points along with with sensors in Earth proximity and on the ground that would provide a suitable observation system capturing essential space weather conditions and related parameters in a holistic manner.

We encourage contributions that discuss aspects of future observing systems including potential instrumentation, satellite systems, or innovative observational methods.