Forecast TEC Maps

Welcome to the Transionospheric Radio Link - Forecast TEC maps service

Overview

The service "Transionospheric Radio Link - Forecast TEC maps" provides maps of the forecasted Total Electron Content (TEC). Currently, these maps show TEC one hour ahead. Developments are planned to extend the lead time and also consider storm times.

Supplementary, geomagnetic indices are provided to this service. These indices indicate quiet and disturbed levels. On the one hand, this can be used to consider the accuracy of the TEC forecast. On the other hand, it can be used as input for the TEC forecast models.

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Highlights

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Products and Alerts

The following products are associated with this service:

Products

Total Electron Content Maps, Forecast
Vertical Total Electron Content Map
3D Electron Density Grids

No product available in this category yet

Total Electron Content Maps, Nowcast
Vertical Total Electron Content Map
3D Electron Density Grids
Other Ionosphere Forecasts
URSI Ionospheric Parameters
Scintillation Indices and Parameters
  • S4 and Err(S4) 6-hour forecast modelled maps
  • SigmaPhi and Err(SigmaPhi) 6-hour forecast modelled maps
  • S4 and Err(S4) 6h forecast modelled values at a given location
  • SigmaPhi and Err(SigmaPhi) 6h forecast modelled values at a given location
Forecast of Solar data
Solar Flares
Smoothed Sunspot Number (SSN, R12)
10.7cm Solar Radio Flux (F10.7)
Solar X-ray Flux

No product available in this category yet

Solar EUV Integrated Flux

No product available in this category yet

Solar UV Flux

No product available in this category yet

Forecast of Vector measurements of local geomagnetic field
Local External Magnetic Field on Ground
Local Geomagnetic Induced Geoelectric Field

No product available in this category yet

Alerts

Ionospheric Disturbance Detection

Tools

User Manual

While many applications already estimate the impact of the ionosphere, forecasts for ionospheric conditions are still relevant for mission planning. Up to now, there is only a limited number of Total Electron Content (TEC) forecasts available, because its development is challenging.

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Interruptions

❗Due to current unavailability of the SDO input data the performance of some products is affected.

TEC map (Europe), forecast

Full product
Provided by: German Aerospace Center

TEC map (Global), forecast

Full product
Provided by: German Aerospace Center