Description:

Beautiful to behold, the aurora also presents a risk to the operability and continuity of service of vital technological systems. Space weather effects of the aurora include geomagnetically induced currents in power grids; navigation and communications outages due to radio scintillation; impacts to satellite orbit prediction; and spacecraft surface charging. Auroral imagery can be used to identify regions where the risk of these hazards is elevated. Spectrally-resolved and radiometrically-calibrated imagery can be used to estimate energy deposition into the neutral atmosphere and ionospheric density enhancements. This session welcomes presentations by the international community on a comprehensive range of topics related to space weather applications of auroral imagery, including but not limited to:
• Agency and community requirements and user needs.
• Missions, instruments, and data - past, present and future.
• Remote sensing methods and their validation.
• Auroral images as inputs to ionospheric, thermospheric and magnetospheric models.
• Use of auroral imagery in forecasting, nowcasting and mitigating space weather hazards.