Judith Palacios, Ms. - PhD
Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Madrid, Spain
       
       
Session 2 - Speaker

Solar eruptive events as seen by the Spanish Space Weather Service SeNMEs

J. Palacios and the SeNMEs team, Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Madrid, Spain
       

The Spanish Space Weather Service SeNMEs (http://www.senmes.es/index.php) is a portal created by the SRG-SW of the University of Alcalá, Spain, to meet societal needs of near real-time space weather services. This webpage-portal is divided in different sections to fulfill users' needs about space weather effects: radio blackouts, solar energetic particle events, geomagnetic storms and presence of geomagnetically induced currents.
In less than one year of activity, this service has released a daily report concerning the solar current status and interplanetary medium, informing about the chances of a solar perturbation to hit the Earth's environment. There are also two different forecasting tools for geomagnetic storms, and a daily ionospheric map. These tools allow us to nowcast a variety of solar eruptive events and forecast geomagnetic storms and their recovery, including a new local geomagnetic index, LDiñ, along with some specific new scaling.
In this communication we emphasize some eruptive events that were actually missed or mistaken by other space weather services. Using different high resolution and cadence data from space-borne solar telescopes SDO, SOHO and GOES, we are achieving the goal of nowcasting solar events.