Deployment of AIDA on the SWE Portal

The Advanced Ionospheric Data Assimilation (AIDA) model is a data assimilation model of the ionosphere which uses NeQuick as its background model along with a local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF). Deployment of AIDA on the SWE Portal (DASP) is a recently funded ESA project with the aim of enhancing the technical components of AIDA, developing a range of products and services and deploying it operationally on the ESA SWE Portal. As part of the development phase of the project, the LETKF will be replaced by a Particle Filter, new visualization routines will be designed, and a continuous validation methodology will be implemented. Once AIDA is operational on the Portal several new services will be available to the community: near real-time 3D specification of the ionosphere (ultra-rapid, rapid and final products), up to 24-hour forecasts and a runson-request system for hindcasting. As well as describing the project and showing recent developments, this poster provides links to resources and material for the community to provide feedback on the proposed new services to the DASP team. This is to ensure the final products best reflect user needs.