French Space Weather Initiatives

Working Group on Space Weather:

In January 1998 the director General of  CNES, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales set up a working group on "Space Weather", with individuals coming from the scientific community, CERT-ONERA, and CNES. The purpose of this working group was to establish the need for new initiatives to meet specific European requirements for independent information on "Space Weather" forecast and restitution. Four principle subjects were thought key areas for an independent capability in Europe:

• Monitoring airline crew radiation exposure.
• Satellite-aided navigation.
• Orbit prediction and determination.
• Environmental conditions for satellites.

A final report was produced by the working team in October, 1998. For more information, see a presentation by J. Breton at the 1998 ESA Space Weather Workshop.

Departement d'Astronomie Solaire de l'Observatoire de  Paris a Meudon Laboratoire de Physique du Soleil et de l'Heliospere Observatoire de Paris & URL 2080 du CNRS  Centre de Prevision de l'Activite Solaire & Geomagnetique The Meudon Forecast Center is a regional center of  ISES. (Note: the Meudon Forecast Centre has moved to the Solar Influences Data Centre, Belgium)

CEPHAG Centre d'Étude des Phénomènes Aléatoires et Géophysiques (CEPHAG) Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble Unité de Recherche Associée CNRS.  

CETP-IPSL Centre d'étude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires (CETP) Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) des Sciences d'Environnement Global, France.    

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