ISES April 2015 Action 6: Available products and RWC regions of applicability/capability Presentation based on sent by Mike Terkildsen Presented by Graham Steward Space Weather Service, Bureau of Meteorology

Action 6: Requested a small team of individuals to draft and recommend an approach for describing a set of products and their regions of applicability for inclusion on the ISES web site. [AWC SEPC, RWC China, RWC Australia, RWC Belgium, RWC Japan, RWC Korea; due February, 2015]"

Provide a brief overview of the ICTSW/WMO Space Weather Portal Provide a demonstration of the Space Weather Portal Initiate some alternative suggestions to get the discussion rolling Members will discuss whether we should utilise the existing capability within Space Weather Portal or modify the ISES web page to meet ISES needs related to action 6. If necessary members will discuss alternative ideas and solutions

The kind of information we are trying to convey via action 6 can already be largely, although not completely, found on the WMO Space Product Access Guide.

Set up by ICTSW/WMO guide/theme/space-weather

Space Weather Portal allows one to add Preview image Access link Organization Geographical tag Domain tag Theme tag

Search Filter Domain related tags Theme related tags Geographical tags Organization (providing the products)

Benefits Established technical capability Well thought out organization of products (most RWCs had input to this process through ICTSW) Products require approval before being added to the portal, enabling some degree of quality control

Disadvantages Is it user friendly enough for Customer? Restricted to filtering based on a defined set of regions (no ability to filter based on lat/lon or view product coverage on a global map). At this time cannot filter by Target Users (eg GNSS, power networks, satellite operations, etc). Possibly Less flexibility than custom ISES design

Regions are predefined by WMO: Antarctic Arctic Atlantic Ocean Global Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean Africa (Region I) Asia (Region II) South America (Region III) North America Central America and the Caribbean (Region IV) South-West Pacific (Region V) Europe (Region VI)

Target Users This information is required on the landing pages, but it would be nice to have a standard set of Target Users included as a filterable (sub-)field on the PAG. That way you could list, for example, all GNSS-related space weather products available for South America.

Domain/Themes Solar and Interplanetary (Domain) Geomagnetic (Domain) Ionospheric (Domain) Energetic Particles (Domain) Aviation (Theme) Broader? Impacts to critical infrastructure Impacts related to human activities Impacts on technology Specific? GNSS Power networks Satellite operations New Themes?Current

Examples Advance search allows one to filter by Domain Theme Geography i.e. Space (Domain), Space Weather (Theme), South America (Region).

Alternatively modify ISES Website Include an inventory of space weather products and links Include a mechanism for finding those products in the inventory Show spatial coverage of various products Maintain link and updates via ISES

Benefits Can be simple, and easily implemented using RWC information pages. Flexible on what information is included, and how that information is displayed (eg graphically on map or Google Earth, or organised by target user areas). Can tailor to customer needs

Disadvantages Do not have the filtering functionality of WMO PAG. If this is desired, would have to develop in-house which is difficult to envisage within the constraints of budget (unnecessary duplication?) Duplication (at least in part) of WMO product guide Manpower hours to design

Some Questions Can we add new themes relate to RWC customers to the WMO Product Access Guide? Does this satisfy ISES/RWC Action 6 requirements? Should we modify the ISES web page instead? If so, who designs it? What did you envision?