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STEREO Space Weather and the Space Weather Beacon

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The STEREO Mission

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The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is primarily a solar and interplanetary research mission, with one of the natural applications being in the area of space weather. The obvious potential for space weather applications is so great that NOAA has worked to incorporate the real-time data into their forecast center as much as possible. A subset of the STEREO data will be continuously downlinked in a real-time broadcast mode, called the Space Weather Beacon. Within the research community there has been considerable interest in conducting space weather related research with STEREO. Some of this research is geared towards making an immediate impact while other work is still very much in the research domain. There are many areas where STEREO might contribute and we cannot predict where all the successes will come. Here we discuss how STEREO will contribute to space weather and many of the specific research projects proposed to address STEREO space weather issues. The data which will be telemetered down in the Space Weather Beacon is also summarized here. Some of the lessons learned from integrating other NASA missions into the forecast center are presented. We also discuss some specific uses of the STEREO data in the NOAA Space Environment Center.

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  1. NOAA/Space Environment Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA

    D. A. Biesecker

  2. Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA

    D. F. Webb

  3. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    O. C. St. Cyr

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Biesecker, D.A., Webb, D.F., St. Cyr, O.C. (2008). STEREO Space Weather and the Space Weather Beacon. In: Russell, C.T. (eds) The STEREO Mission. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09649-0_4

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