release-notes-3.11.0

SWE Portal 3.11.0 Release Note

The ESA Space Weather team is pleased to announce that SWE Portal 3.11.0 was released on the 17 October 2024.

In this update, the ESA SWE Services have been enhanced with the incorporation of the following new and updated products and tools:

Not sure which products are linked to which service? Find the latest Service-Product linking here: Service Application Matrix

From the Solar Weather Expert Service Centre:

  • Multi Experiment Data & Operation Center (UPSaclay/MEDOC) provides an update with a renovated menu look.
  • The product A-Effort is transferred from Expert Group providers, from Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics (AOA/RCAAM) to Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications & Remote Sensing (NOA/IAASARS). The product will be available as soon as possible.

From the Ionospheric Weather Expert Service Centre:

  • The Norwegian Mapping Authority (NMA) provides an update to the RTIM S4 and σφ maps
    • These demonstration data products are no longer being updated with new data, but the archive of earlier results - including scintillation data from the 14th of August 2016 until the 10th of October 2024 - is still available.
  • The UK Met Office (UKMO) provides an update to the Atmospheric Density Estimates of Forecast and Prior Total Density for Atmospheric Drag Calculation.
    • The update includes an updated range for the atmospheric density plots that enables an improved visualization moving towards the solar maximum.

From the ESA Space Weather Office:

  • ICARE-NG² is the third Space Weather instrument flying as part of ESA's Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S). Latest data products from the ICARE-NG² instruments onboard the Hotbird spacecraft 13F and 13G will soon be provided as part of the General Data Services. Note: Please be advised that data delivery from ICARE-NG² might not be fully stable yet and outages as well as delays might occur.

On 13 November 2024 the SWE Portal 3.11.1 was released. It is a small portal release and consists of the following changes:

  1. making the A-Effort product available again,
  2. adding historical data to the ICARE-NG² data provision.

Your feedback is important! We kindly invite you to participate in a survey to tell us your thoughts on the new SWE Portal, all feedback is welcome and will help improve the SWE Portal and better tailor our services to your needs.

Our SSCC helpdesk are here to help and can be contacted by sending us an email (helpdesk.swe@esa.int) or by filling the SWE Portal support request form. A short user satisfaction survey is accessible at the bottom of our replies upon closure of your requests, we would be grateful if you could follow the link to provide feedback on our helpdesk response and help us to improve our service.

Please contact the SSCC Helpdesk (helpdesk.swe@esa.int) for any further information.