Ground and space data products provided by GFZ to the ESA Space Weather Service Network

The Space Weather (SWE) Service Network of the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Space Safety Programme provides timely and reliable space weather information to end users allowing the mitigation and prevention of the impact of hazards from space on the communication and navigation systems, power grids, and aviation, etc. The SWE Service Network consists of 5 Expert Service Centres (ESCs), Solar Weather, Space Radiation, Ionospheric Weather, Geomagnetic Conditions, and Heliospheric Weather, which are distributed and established across Europe providing coverage of space weather phenomena and impacts on ground and space-based infrastructure. Note that a free registration at the ESA's SWE portal is necessary to get access to the protected applications or products.

Here, we give an overview of 18 products that currently are provided by GFZ in the Ionospheric Weather ESC (I-ESC) and Geomagnetic Conditions ESC (G-ESC). These products are derived from the Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite and ground-based observations. In I-ESC, the following Swarm mission products are provided: Rate Of the change of TEC (ROT), Total Electron Content (TEC), in-situ electron density (Ne), Ionospheric Bubble Index (IBI), Rate Of the change of TEC Index (ROTI). And in G-ESC: the location and intensity level of the Polar Electrojet (PEJ), Field-Aligned Currents (FACs), and Vector Magnetic Field (MAG) components. The following global geomagnetic indices are provided in G-ESC, nowcast Kp (three-hourly), Hp60 (one-hourly and open-ended), Hp30 (half-hourly and open-ended) indices, most recent definitive Kp index, Kp, Ap, Hp60, ap60, Hp30, ap30 indices on tabular form, Kp and Ap (since 1932), Hp60, ap60, Hp30 and ap30 (since 1995) indices archive.