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View article: The impact of Mother’s Day Storms in May 2024 on Precise Point Positioning at mid-latitudes
The impact of Mother’s Day Storms in May 2024 on Precise Point Positioning at mid-latitudes Open
Geomagnetic storms generate disturbances in the ionosphere that can significantly affect the quality of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals transmitted through the ionosphere. While many studies have investigated their impact…
View article: Chemical Characterization of Liquid Products from the Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes
Chemical Characterization of Liquid Products from the Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes Open
View article: Integrating plasmasphere, ionosphere and thermosphere observations and models into a standardised open access research environment: The PITHIA-NRF international project
Integrating plasmasphere, ionosphere and thermosphere observations and models into a standardised open access research environment: The PITHIA-NRF international project Open
The PITHIA-NRF project “Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services: a Network of Research Facilities” aims at building a European distributed network that integrates observations from space and…
View article: Assessing the ionospheric scintillations occurrence on L-band in the southern Mediterranean sector
Assessing the ionospheric scintillations occurrence on L-band in the southern Mediterranean sector Open
View article: Assessing the ionospheric scintillations occurrence on L-band in the southern Mediterranean sector
Assessing the ionospheric scintillations occurrence on L-band in the southern Mediterranean sector Open
We assess the ionospheric scintillation occurrence on Global Navigation Satellite Signals (GNSSs) over the Mediterranean sector under the rising phase of the current solar cycle. To the scope, we leverage on a network of three Ionospheric …
View article: The effects of the May 2024 Mother’s Day superstorm over the Mediterranean sector: from data to public communication
The effects of the May 2024 Mother’s Day superstorm over the Mediterranean sector: from data to public communication Open
On 8 May 2024, the solar active region AR13664 started releasing a series of intense solar flares. Those of class X released between 9 and 11 May 2024 gave rise to a chain of fast Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) that proved to be geoeffectiv…
View article: Space weather impact on radio communication and navigation
Space weather impact on radio communication and navigation Open
It is well known that space weather can cause significant disruptions to modern communications and navigation systems, leading to increased safety risks, economic losses, and reduced quality of life. Operators of critical infrastructures (…
View article: An Open Architecture for Signal Monitoring and Recording Based on SDR and Docker Containers: A GNSS Use Case
An Open Architecture for Signal Monitoring and Recording Based on SDR and Docker Containers: A GNSS Use Case Open
Signal monitoring and recording station architectures based on software-defined radio (SDR) have been proposed and implemented since several years. However, the large amount of data to be transferred, stored, and managed when high sampling…
View article: An Open Architecture for Signal Monitoring and Recording Based on SDR and Docker Containers: A GNSS Use Case
An Open Architecture for Signal Monitoring and Recording Based on SDR and Docker Containers: A GNSS Use Case Open
Signal monitoring and recording station architectures based on software-defined radio (SDR) have been proposed and implemented since several years. However, the large amount of data to be transferred, stored, and managed when high sampling…
View article: Space Weather Effects Observed in the Northern Hemisphere during November 2021 Geomagnetic Storm: The Impacts on Plasmasphere, Ionosphere and Thermosphere Systems
Space Weather Effects Observed in the Northern Hemisphere during November 2021 Geomagnetic Storm: The Impacts on Plasmasphere, Ionosphere and Thermosphere Systems Open
On 3 November 2021, an interplanetary coronal mass ejection impacted the Earth’s magnetosphere leading to a relevant geomagnetic storm (Kp = 8-), the most intense event that occurred so far during the rising phase of solar cycle 25. This w…
View article: The Socioeconomic Impacts of the Upper Atmosphere Effects on LEO Satellites, Communication and Navigation Systems
The Socioeconomic Impacts of the Upper Atmosphere Effects on LEO Satellites, Communication and Navigation Systems Open
<p>The near-Earth space environment undergoes daily changes driven by variable conditions in the Sun. Explosive eruptions of energy from the Sun causing minor solar storms on Earth are relatively common and of little consequence. On …
View article: Space Weather Services for Civil Aviation—Challenges and Solutions
Space Weather Services for Civil Aviation—Challenges and Solutions Open
This paper presents a review on the PECASUS service, which provides advisories on enhanced space weather activity for civil aviation. The advisories are tailored according to the Standards and Recommended Practices of the International Civ…
View article: Adaptive Phase Detrending for GNSS Scintillation Detection: A Case Study Over Antarctica
Adaptive Phase Detrending for GNSS Scintillation Detection: A Case Study Over Antarctica Open
We aim at contributing to the reliability of the phase scintillation index on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals at high-latitude. To the scope, we leverage on a recently introduced detrending scheme based on the signal deco…
View article: The SWIT-eSWua system: managing, preservation and sharing of the historical and near real-time ionospheric data at the INGV
The SWIT-eSWua system: managing, preservation and sharing of the historical and near real-time ionospheric data at the INGV Open
Earth and Space Science Open Archive Presented WorkOpen AccessYou are viewing the latest version by default [v1]The SWIT-eSWua system: managing, preservation and sharing of the historical and near real-time ionospheric data at the INGVAuth…
View article: On the phase detrending to disentangle refraction and diffraction on GNSS signals: a case study over Antarctica
On the phase detrending to disentangle refraction and diffraction on GNSS signals: a case study over Antarctica Open
<p>We investigate the reliability of the phase scintillation index determined by receiving Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals at ground in the high-latitudes. To the scope, we report about the capabilities of recently …
View article: A measure of ionospheric irregularities: zonal velocity and its implications for L-band scintillation at low-latitudes
A measure of ionospheric irregularities: zonal velocity and its implications for L-band scintillation at low-latitudes Open
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View article: Disentangling ionospheric refraction and diffraction effects in GNSS raw phase through fast iterative filtering technique
Disentangling ionospheric refraction and diffraction effects in GNSS raw phase through fast iterative filtering technique Open
We contribute to the debate on the identification of phase scintillation induced by the ionosphere on the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) by introducing a phase detrending method able to provide realistic values of the phase scin…
View article: The INGV Arctic Ionospheric data management system and its synergy with the Italian NADC
The INGV Arctic Ionospheric data management system and its synergy with the Italian NADC Open
<p>The Space Weather effects on the ionosphere considerably affect several modern technology infrastructures, such as telecommunication systems, power networks and in general systems relying on satellite navigation. The polar regions…
View article: PECASUS - ICAO Designated Space Weather Service Network for Aviation
PECASUS - ICAO Designated Space Weather Service Network for Aviation Open
<p>The PECASUS Consortium (European Consortium for Aviation Space weather User Services) provides targeted space weather services focusing on the dissemination of warning messages, called 'advisories', towards aviation actors. PECASU…
View article: Putting the INGV data policy into practice: considerations after the first-year experience
Putting the INGV data policy into practice: considerations after the first-year experience Open
<p>The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) has a long tradition of sharing scientific data, well before the Open Science paradigm was conceived. In the last thirty years, a great deal of geophysical data generated b…
View article: Neural network based model for global Total Electron Content forecasting
Neural network based model for global Total Electron Content forecasting Open
We introduce a novel empirical model to forecast, 24 h in advance, the Total Electron Content (TEC) at global scale. The technique leverages on the Global Ionospheric Map (GIM), provided by the International GNSS Service (IGS), and applies…
View article: Current state and perspectives of Space Weather science in Italy
Current state and perspectives of Space Weather science in Italy Open
Italian teams have been involved many times in Space Weather observational campaigns from space and from the ground, contributing in the advancing of our knowledge on the properties and evolution of the related phenomena. Numerous Space We…
View article: The ionospheric irregularities climatology over Svalbard from solar cycle 23
The ionospheric irregularities climatology over Svalbard from solar cycle 23 Open
The paper presents an unprecedented description of the climatology of ionospheric irregularities over the Arctic derived from the longest Global Navigation Satellite Systems data series ever collected for this specific aim. Two TEC and sci…
View article: User-Oriented ICT Cloud Architecture for High-Accuracy GNSS-Based Services
User-Oriented ICT Cloud Architecture for High-Accuracy GNSS-Based Services Open
We introduce a new information and communication technology (ICT) cloud-based architecture for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) high-accuracy solutions, offering also a commercial overview of GNSS downstream market to show how the…
View article: The Ionosphere Prediction Service
The Ionosphere Prediction Service Open
The Ionosphere Prediction Service (IPS), project funded by European Commission within Horizon 2020 and currently ongoing, provides a prototype for a monitoring and prediction service of potential ionosphere-related disturbances affecting G…
View article: The ionosphere prediction service prototype for GNSS users
The ionosphere prediction service prototype for GNSS users Open
The effect of the Earth’s ionosphere represents the single largest contribution to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) error budget and abnormal ionospheric conditions can impose serious degradation on GNSS system functionality, …
View article: Role of the external drivers in the occurrence of low-latitude ionospheric scintillation revealed by multi-scale analysis
Role of the external drivers in the occurrence of low-latitude ionospheric scintillation revealed by multi-scale analysis Open
We analyze the amplitude scintillation on L-band signals over San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina), focusing on the multi-scale variability and speculating on the possible relationship between forcing factors from the geospace and the ionosph…
View article: The Ionosphere Prediction Service for GNSS Users
The Ionosphere Prediction Service for GNSS Users Open
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View article: Analysis of the ionospheric scintillations during 20-21 January 2015 from SANAE by means of the DemoGRAPE scintillation receivers
Analysis of the ionospheric scintillations during 20-21 January 2015 from SANAE by means of the DemoGRAPE scintillation receivers Open
This paper presents ionospheric scintillation data recorded at SANAE in Antarctica during a moderate geomagnetic storm on 20-21 January 2016 which gives evidence of the advantages of the new generation of instrumentation for monitoring ion…
View article: The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Data Management System for the Arctic Sciences
The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Data Management System for the Arctic Sciences Open