International Space Weather Initiative

Sharafat Gadimova and Hans Haubold

Abstract:	The International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) is a programme of international cooperation to advance space weather science by a combination of instrument deployment, analysis and interpretation of space weather data from the deployed instruments in conjunction with space data, and communicate the results to the public and students. ISWI is a follow-up activity to the International Heliophysical Year 2007 (IHY 2007), focusing exclusively on space weather (http://www.iswisecretariat. org). The further goal of the ISWI is to develop the scientific insights necessary to understand the science, and to reconstruct and forecast near-Earth space weather. This includes instrumentation, data analysis, modelling, education, training, and public outreach. Close to 1000 instruments, located in more than 100 nations, organized through 16 operating instrument arrays, consist of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, very low frequency receivers, magnetometers, solar spectrometers, and particle detectors. National coordinators for ISWI organizing international outreach, education, and research programmes have been designated in more than 100 nations. The status and results of the instrument arrays, data recording, and data analysis are being reported annually to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and its Scientific and Technical Subcommittee that mandated the organization of three workshops on ISWI in Egypt (2010), Nigeria (2011), and Ecuador (2012). In ISWI, special emphasis is placed on the use of GNSS (GPS) receivers to better understand dynamical processes in the Earth’ atmosphere due to the impact of solar-terrestrial interaction on GNSS satellites.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 2013 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 29 - 27, 2013 Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, California
Pages:	542 - 544
Cite this article:	Gadimova, Sharafat, Haubold, Hans, "International Space Weather Initiative," Proceedings of the 2013 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, California, January 2013, pp. 542-544.
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