Activities of the Japanese Space Weather Forecast Center at Communications Research Laboratory
Author(s) -
Shinichi Watari,
Fumihiko Tomita
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of radiation research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1349-9157
pISSN - 0449-3060
DOI - 10.1269/jrr.43.s53
Subject(s) - space weather , meteorology , space science , space (punctuation) , space environment , international space station , center (category theory) , latitude , service (business) , geography , environmental science , telecommunications , computer science , aeronautics , engineering , business , aerospace engineering , physics , geodesy , marketing , geophysics , crystallography , operating system , chemistry
The International Space Environment Service (ISES) is an international organization for space weather forecasts and belongs to the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). There are eleven ISES forecast centers in the world, and Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) runs the Japanese one. We make forecasts on the space environment and deliver them over the phones and through the Internet. Our forecasts could be useful for human activities in space. Currently solar activity is near maximum phase of the solar cycle 23. We report the several large disturbances of space environment occurred in 2001, during which low-latitude auroras were observed several times in Japan.
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