An Assessment of the GLE Alert++ Warning System
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Authors
Mavromichalaki, H.
Paschalis, P.
Gerontidou, M.
Tezari, A.
Papailiou, M.-C.
Lingri, D.
Livada, M.
Stassinakis, A.
Crosby, N.
Dierckxsens, M.
Discipline
Physical sciences
Subject
ground level enhancements
cosmic rays
neutron monitors
GLE Alert++
Audience
Scientific
Date
2024Metadata
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Over the last years the Athens Cosmic Ray Group of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens has implemented a warning tool called GLE Alert, which is a highly credible application that issues alerts when a ground level enhancement (GLE) starts due to very high energy solar energetic particles reaching the Earth. This application warns of a high intensity solar energetic particle event up to several minutes before it reaches near the near-Earth space environment. In this work, an assessment of the latest updated version of GLE Alert, GLE Alert++, is presented. GLE Alert++ is a federated product of the ESA S2P SWE Space Radiation Expert Service Centre, which is part of the ESA Space WEather Service NETwork (SWESNET) project. The assessment of the GLE Alert++, which was finalized in October 2022, focused on: (a) the availability of the real-time data provided by the neutron monitor stations that contribute to the GLE Alert++, (b) the behaviour of each station regarding the different Alert levels status (Watch, Warning and Alert), and (c) the definition of the real-time assessment index. The results of this work are of essential importance since they ensure a reliable and trustworthy warning tool, and can be highly useful in protecting humans during extreme solar energetic events.
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Mavromichalaki, H.; Paschalis, P.; Gerontidou, M.; Tezari, A.; Papailiou, M.-C.; Lingri, D.; Livada, M.; Stassinakis, A.; Crosby, N.; Dierckxsens, M. (2024). An Assessment of the GLE Alert++ Warning System. , Atmosphere, Vol. 15, Issue 3, A345, DOI: 10.3390/atmos15030345.Identifiers
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Language
eng