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Prediction and warning system of SEP events and solar flares 4 for risk estimation in space launch operations

Garcia-Rigo, A.
Nunez, M.
Qahwaji, Rami S.R.
Ashamari, Omar
Jiggens, P.
Perez, G.
Hernández-Pajares, M.
Hilgers, A.
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2016-07
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© The Authors. Published by EDP Sciences 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A web-based prototype system for predicting solar energetic particle (SEP) events and solar flares for use by space launch operators is presented. The system has been developed as a result of the European Space Agency (ESA) project SEPsFLAREs (Solar Events Prediction system For space LAunch Risk Estimation). The system consists of several modules covering the prediction of solar flares and early SEP Warnings (labeled Warning tool), the prediction of SEP event occurrence and onset, and the prediction of SEP event peak and duration. In addition, the system acquires data for solar flare nowcasting from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-based techniques (GNSS Solar Flare Detector, GSFLAD and the Sunlit Ionosphere Sudden Total Electron Content Enhancement Detector, SISTED) as additional independent products that may also prove useful for space launch operators.
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Garcia-Rigo A, Nunez M, Qahwaji R et al. (2016) Prediction and warning system of SEP events and solar flares for risk estimation in space launch operations. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate. 6(A28).
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