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Annales Geophysicae

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10.5194/angeo-26-345-2008

The electronic Space Weather upper atmosphere (eSWua) project at INGV: advancements and state of the art

Romano

¹ Pau

¹ Pezzopane

¹ Zuccheretti

¹ Zolesi

¹ De Franceschi

¹ Locatelli

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy

Volanet Srl, Rome, Italy

26 02 2008

26 2 345 351

2008

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The eSWua project is based on measurements performed by all the instruments installed by the upper atmosphere physics group of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy and on all the related studies. The aim is the realization of a hardware-software system to standardize historical and real-time observations for different instruments. <br><br> An interactive Web site, supported by a well organized database, can be a powerful tool for the scientific and technological community in the field of telecommunications and space weather. The most common and useful database type for our purposes is the relational one, in which data are organized in tables for petabytes data archiving and the complete flexibility in data retrieving. <br><br> The project started in June 2005 and will last till August 2007. In the first phase the major effort has been focused on the design of hardware and database architecture. The first two databases related to the DPS4 digisonde and GISTM measurements are complete concerning populating, tests and output procedures. Details on the structure and Web tools concerning these two databases are presented, as well as the general description of the project and technical features.

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