Abstract
The paper aims to review recent advances regarding the observational and monitoring capabilities of the ionization conditions in the Earth's upper atmosphere. The analysis spans both ground and space-based experiments, seeking for new installations and/or missions, new or upgraded instrumentation and/or observational network establishments as means for advancing current understanding and prediction ability of the ionosphere variability. As a solid basis and a clear requirement for considerable advances in the field, progress towards the more efficient access to research facilities and data centres is also investigated. Giving the emphasis in the period from 2015 onwards, the ultimate goal of the present analysis is to assess present status with respect to the COSPAR/ILWS Space Weather roadmap's considerations/recommendations for 2015–2025 as input to the roadmap's update undertaken by the ISWAT/COSPAR action.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Advances in Space Research |
Early online date | 20 Jul 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 20 Jul 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:IT and AB acknowledge partial financial support provided by the TechTIDE Horizon 2020 project, Grant Agreement 776011 , by the PITHIA-NRF Horizon 2020, Grant Agreement 101007599 and the T-FORS Horizon Europe, Grant Agreement 101081835 of the European Commission. WJM acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC Consolidator Grant agreement No. 866357 , POLAR-4DSpace).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 COSPAR
Keywords
- Ionosphere
- Monitoring
- Observations
- Space Weather
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Aerospace Engineering
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Geophysics
- Atmospheric Science
- Space and Planetary Science
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences