The space weather station at the University of Alcala

Abstract

The Space Weather station at the University of Alcala (UAH-STA) is a place for instrumentation that is able to produce useful products and services in a worst case scenario, assuring decision-makers the access to the data and consequently, increasing the confidence to take actions. The current development consists of an antenna to monitor ionospheric disturbances through the reception of very low frequency waves and a magnetometer to indicate the geomagnetic disturbances caused by sources external to the Earth. This work shows the development of both instruments and some examples of ionospheric and geomagnetic events recorded by both of them. This project serves also as a successful story of using space weather as a teaching tool due to the involvement of undergraduate students at final stage of industrial and telecommunication engineering.

Using Application Usability Levels to support tracking the health of Heliophysics

“…These new indices were developed jointly by researchers and industry users for nowcasting local geomagnetic disturbances (LDi) and for geomagnetically induced current risk (LCi). They are currently being deployed real-time on ground-based stations (Guerrero et al, 2021).…”