EGU2020-7650
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7650
EGU General Assembly 2020
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
PECASUS - ICAO Designated Space Weather Service Network for
Aviation
Harri Haukka
1
, Ari-Matti Harri
1
, Kirsti Kauristie
1
, Jesse Andries
2
, Mark Gibbs
3
, Peter Beck
4
, Jens
Berdermann
5
, Loredana Perrone
6
, Bert van den Oord
7
, David Berghmans
8
, Nicolas Bergeot
2
, Erwin
De Donder
9
, Martin Latocha
10
, Mark Dierckxsens
9
, Haris Haralambous
11
, Iwona M Stanislawska
12
,
Volker Wilken
5
, Vincenzo Romano
13
, Martin Kriegel
5
, and Kari Österberg
1
1
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space Research and Observation Technologies, Helsinki, Finland (harri.haukka@fmi.fi)
2
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
3
Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
4
Seibersdorf Laboratories Inc, Vienna, Austria
5
German Aerospace Center Neustrelitz, Neustrelitz, Germany
6
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Palermo, Italy
7
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
8
Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence, Leuven, Belgium
9
Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aeronomie, Brussel, Belgium
10
Sebersforf Laboratories Inc., Vienna, Austria
11
Frederick University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
12
Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
13
SpacEarth Technology, Rome, Italy
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. PECASUS services corresponds to extreme space
weather events with impact on aviation GNSS systems, HF communication and radiation levels at
flight altitudes. In November 2018 ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) designated three
global space weather service centers. These centers acre operated by the European PECASUS
consortium, by United States and by the consortium of Australia, Canada, France and Japan.
PECASUS was set-up as a consortium bringing together a number of European partners with
proven space weather service capabilities. The PECASUS consortium is coordinated by FMI
(Finland) who is also the ultimate responsible for communications towards the aviation sector. The
Advisory Messages are produced by STCE (Belgium) on the basis of expert interpretation and data
streams produced by DLR (Germany), INGV (Italy), Seibersdorf Laboratories (Austria), STCE
(Belgium), SRC (Poland) and FU (Cyprus). In addition, the MetOffice (UK) will act as a resilience node
in case of a major failure in the network, while the KNMI (The Netherlands) will take care of user
liaison and monitor the PECASUS performance.
The PECASUS Consortium was audited in February 2018 by space weather and operational