Space Weather Service Network Preliminary Product Validation for the Period of Heightened Activity Observed in September 2017

Abstract

The European Space Agency's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Space Weather (SWE) Portal provides users with access to space weather services built upon a large variety of products, tools and alerting together with expert user support and guidance. Understanding the performance of the different service elements under a range of space weather conditions is essential to providing reliable information to end users. In the frame of SSA Period 3 activities, an initial set of 'Guidelines for common validation in the SSA SWE Network' have been developed by a working group consisting of representatives of the SWE Expert Service Centres with the aim to provide a common basis for future validation campaigns. This poster presents preliminary results from application of the suggested techniques and metrics on a sample of products available via the SWE Portal for the period of heightened space weather activity observed during September 2017. The cross-domain project demonstrates the applicability of the suggested validation techniques, whilst also identifying any ambiguities in the terminology used within the guidelines themselves. As a result of these tests, information on the performance of the analysed products during this heightened period of space weather is also provided.