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The ESA Space Weather team is pleased to announce that SWE Portal 3.15.0 was released on the 05 March 2026.
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 in the upgraded look and feel of Product to Service Component Mapping
From the Space Radiation Expert Service Centre:
- A new version of SPENVIS (4.6.14) will be released. The release includes an update of the GUI page of the DTMB78 and NeQuick atmosphere models.
In more detail:
- the 'F10.7 (previous day)' input parameter for DTMB78 has been replaced by the Kp index
- the validity range of the 'F10.7 (monthly average)' input parameter for NeQuick has been changed to [63,193] with a default value of 70.
- The Space Application & Research Consultancy (SPARC) provides
- Updated plots of the GEO multiple electron fluxes due to the change from GOES-16 to GOES-19 data.
From the Ionospheric Weather Expert Service Centre:
- Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (IMPC) provides:
- An update of the Global Scintillation Indices product with the inclusion of 7 additional stations which are operated by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV).
- An update of the Equivalent slab thickness for Juliusruh and Pruhonice products introduces a harmonized graphical user interface and an archive functionality providing access to historical data.
- A new expert group Space Environment and Radio Engineering (SERENE) associated with the University of Birmingham (UoB) provides:
- Nowcasts of global 3D reconstructions of the electron densities in the ionospheric medium and Nowcasts of global maps of vertical Total Electron Content (vTEC expressed in TECU), Maximum Useable Frequency at 3000 km (MUF3000 in MHz), the critical plasma frequency (foF2 in MHz) and its associated height (hmF2 in km). The reconstructions are generated by the 3D data assimilation model AIDA, and they are provided with different latencies, Ultra-Rapid, Rapid and Final, according to the amount and diversity of the ingested data.
- Forecasts of global 3D reconstructions of the electron densities and Forecasts of global maps of vTEC, MUF3000, foF2 and hmF2. The Forecasts are produced by the 3D data assimilation model AIDA with the following lead times 0.5, 1.5, 3, and 6 hours based on Rapid and Ultra-Rapid reconstruction.
From the Geomagnetic Expert Service Centre:
- The University of Bergen (UiB) and Imperial College London (Imperial) provides:
- A new near-real‑time space weather forecasting capability with outputs from the Bergen Imperial Global Geospace (BIGG) modelling system. BIGG Utilises the Space Weather Modelling Framework (SWMF) and Gorgon Global MHD models in tandem delivering forecasts up to 1 hour ahead. The BIGG forecast demonstration outputs are:
- dB BIGG
- Forecast of magnetic field perturbations (H, E, N components) at ground magnetometer stations (in nT).
- dB/dt BIGG
- Forecast of the rate of change of the horizontal magnetic field dBH/dt (in nT/s)
- kp BIGG
- BIGG model’s Kp‑like index forecast for global geomagnetic activity.
- SYMH BIGG
- Forecast of the BIGG model SYM‑H index (high‑resolution Dst, in nT).
- AE BIGG
- Latest forecast of auroral electrojet indices AE, AU, and AL (in nT).
- MPSD BIGG
- Forecast of the subsolar magnetopause standoff distance (in Earth radii, Re)
- SLICE BIGG
- 2D overview image of the modelled magnetosphere, a quick-look situational snapshot.
- JH BIGG
- Forecast of integrated Joule heating across the Northern Hemisphere.
- The British Geological Survey (BGS) provides:
- An update on all BGS products layout; products' functionalities, such as archive-search capabilities, remains unaltered from the previous product versions.
- The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) provides:
- The station BOR (Bornholm) has been relocated to a new site nearby with a more reliable internet connection to prevent the frequent data gaps experienced at the previous location. The Geodetic (WGS84) coordinates of the new location is: Lat: 55.06, Lon: 14.76 degrees (the corresponding coordinates at the old location: Lat: 55.18, Lon: 14.91). The move took place December 9th 2025. The last good timestamp at the old location is December 9, 2025 at 9.00 UTC, the first good timestamp on the new location is December 10, 2025 at 00.00 UTC.
From the ESA Space Weather Office:
- The L1 data from the KSEM instrument suite on GEO-KOMPSAT-2A prior to 2024 has now been included in the ESA Space Weather Database.
Changes made to product APIs in this release:
- I.169-I.174: UoB/SERENE AIDA products data is now made accessible through the product's API. See the products help page for more information.
- Due to the SSO migration some the API URLs of some of the applications will change.
On 12 March 2026 the SWE Portal 3.15.1 was released. It is a small portal release and consists of the following changes:
- Access to some of the products has been restored following the start of the SSO migration.
- The R-ESC coordinator has been changed to Mark Dierckxsens from BIRA-IASB.
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.
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