NMDB

NMDB
Budget :	661 k€
Subventions :	FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES (500 k€)
Début :	1er janvier 2008
Fin :	31 décembre 2009
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NMDB est l'acronyme du projet européen Real-time database for high resolution neutron monitor measurements, qui a pour référence sur le service CORDIS 213007.

English description

Note : Les objectifs suivants sont repris de la fiche du projet sur Cordis

Objective

We propose to set up a European digital repository for cosmic ray data by pooling existing data archives and by developing a real-time database with the data of as many European neutron monitor stations as possible. The data will be available through internet. Cosmic rays provide a diagnostic tool to analyze processes in interplanetary space and at the Sun. Cosmic rays also directly affect the terrestrial environment and serve as indicators of solar variability and non-anthropogenic climate changes on Earth.

In the fifties of the last century a worldwide network of standardized neutron monitors was developed to examine temporal and spatial variations in our space environment. Despite decades of tradition, neutron monitors remain the state-of-the-art instrumentation for measuring GeV cosmic rays that cannot be measured by space experiments. Therefore the worldwide network, which presently consists of about 50 stations, ideally complements cosmic ray observations in space. Since the beginning of the coordinated neutron monitor measurements the data have been collected in world data centres. A big shortcoming of these data centres for today's demands is the fact that the data are not available in real-time and only with a time resolution of one hour. Cosmic ray applications, e.g. space weather warnings (geomagnetic storms, solar energetic particle events) need access to neutron monitor measurements in real-time and with high time resolution.

Reliable forecasts of geomagnetic storms are important in many technical areas (radio communication, electric power lines, etc.). Confident alert prediction of solar energetic particle events is highly important for manned space missions and for airline crews and passengers. The proposal unifies for the first time the cosmic ray community of the European neutron monitor network in a coordinated effort to advance the use of cosmic ray data in cutting-edge applications, as e.g. space weather.

 

Les partenaires du projet

Coordinateur du projet

• Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel - Kiel (Allemagne)

Partenaires

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Athènes (Grèce)
• Yerevan Physics Institute after A. I. Alikhanyan - Erevan (Arménie)
• Institut d'aéronomie spatiale de Belgique - Bruxelles (Belgique)
• Tel Aviv University - Tel Aviv (Israël)
• Universita degli Studi Roma Tre - Rome (Italie)
• Institute of Ionosphere - Ministry of Education and Science - Almaty (Kazakhstan)
• Oulun Yliopisto - Oulu (Finlande)
• Ustav Experimentalnej Fyziky Slovenskej Akademie Vied - Kosice (Slovénie)
• Universitaet Bern - Berne (Suisse)
• Observatoire de Paris - Paris (France)
• Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation - Russian Academy of Sciences - Troitsk (Russie)

Financement

• Coût total du projet : 661 334 €
• Subvention de la Commission européenne (programme FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES) : 500 000 €

Dates importantes

• Date de début : 1^er janvier 2008
• Date de fin : 31 décembre 2009