Contributions of the Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center to the space weather services

Abstract

The ionospheric weather products of the Space Weather Application Center- Ionosphere (SWACI) belong to the key products within the Expert Service Centre Ionospheric Weather provided on the SSA Space Weather portal. Currently, SWACI is transferred into a more robust system introduced as Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (IMPC). In the new release of the ESA Space Weather portal, IMPC provides the familiar products along with updated and new products deployed in the portal. This includes the near real-time and forecast maps of Total Electron Content (TEC), slab thickness, local scintillation data and Rate Of change of TEC Index (ROTI) maps. Here, we will present the set of IMPC products, their recent developments and properties as well as their presentation in a new web environment.