MET OFFICE

Northumbria’s Solar-Terrestrial Science group is working closely with the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre on space weather forecasting. The UK Met Office is developing a system of forecasting all types of space weather. Northumbria is playing multiple roles in the £20M UKRI Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk (SWIMMR) programme which will improve the UK’s expertise for monitoring and predicting space weather. Projects as part of this include:

• N1 Satellite Radiation Risk Forecasts (Rae, Watt, Sandu)
• N4 SWIMMR Activities in Ground Effects (Rae, Watt)
• S4 Forecasting from the Sun to L1 (Bloomfield)
• Determining energy pathways for the energisation of radiation belt electrons by very low frequency waves 
• SWEEP: Space Weather Empirical Ensemble Package

Photo credit: NASA/SDO