Topical Discussion Meeting - The SAWS-ASPECS tool: A Web-based Tool for Forecasting Solar Particle Events and Flares

Anastasios Anastasiadis (National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote); Athanasios Papaioannou (National Observatory of Athans); Rami Vainio (University of Turku); Angels Aran (Universitat de Barcelona); Miikaa Paassilta (University of Turku); Ingmar Sandberg (SPARC); Antonis Tsigkanos (SPARC); Sigiava Aminalragia-Giamini (SPARC); Evagelos Paouris (National Observatory of Athens); George Vasalos (National Observatory of Athens); Mark Dierckxsens (BIRA-IASB); Piers Jiggens(ESTEC/ESA)
Thursday 21/11, 14:00-15:15

The ASPECS (Advanced Solar Particle Event Casting System) is a web-based tool that is being released to the scientific community. The ASPECS tool collates and combines outputs from different modules providing forecasts of solar phenomena, the occurrence of solar proton events and their corresponding expected characteristics; tailored to the needs of spacecraft and launch operators, as well as, to the aviation sector. Predictions start with the forecasting of solar flares and evolve through updates based on near-real time inputs (e.g. solar flare and coronal mass ejections data/characteristics) received by the system. For the first time the complete time profile of the SEP event at respective energies of interest is provided in near real-time, utilizing both simulations and observations. Furthermore, users get access to the underlying ASPECS database and are able to run on demand the different modules. Thereby, a hands-on demo event, will also take place where users can get familiar with the tool under guidance of the consortium members.

Acknowledgement. The ASPECS tool was developed, receiving funding through the ESA activity “Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Advanced Warning System (SAWS)”. ESA Contract No. 4000120480/NL/LF/hh.