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Data Assimilative Ensemble Forecast of the near Earth Radiation Belts

Data Product of WP6

Data Assimilative Forecast of the near Earth Radiation Belts

Two-day ensemble radiation belt forecast of 1 MeV electrons using the data-assimilative VERB code, real-time ARASE, ACE, GOES and POES data. Kp index for the previous 7 days is obtained from GFZ recent and previous month nowcast. 3-day ensemble Kp forecast is obtained from PAGER Work Package 3. Forecasts are conducted automatically every hour on spacepager processing server at GFZ. The code computes the nowcast and forecast fluxes from reanalysis directly using the T89 magnetic field model.

Real Time Radiation Belt Forecast

Two-day radiation belt ensemble forecast of 1 MeV electrons and 50 degree pitch angle using the data-assimilative VERB code, real-time ARASE, ACE, GOES and POES data. The 3-day ensemble Kp forecast is obtained from PAGER Work Package 3 for up to 20 ensembles. Forecasts are conducted automatically every hour on spacepager processing server at GFZ based on the latest reanalysis. The figures shows the mean of up to 20 ensemble forecasts (top panel) and the corresponding standard deviation (bottom panel).

Real Time Ensemble Radiation Belt Forecast