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Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center

The Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (IMPC) of DLR provides a near real-time information and data service for the current state of the ionosphere, related forecasts and warnings. It benefits from the strong expertise in ionospheric science and expert knowledge on data management and archiving of two DLR institutes.

Well established ground and space based GNSS measurements offer a unique chance to permanently monitor the electron density and its structure of the ionosphere-plasmasphere system. IMPC uses of them to generate products reflecting the current state ionosphere and related forecasts, which are disseminated via the website impc.dlr.de. A subset is provided here to the ESA Space Weather Service Portal.

Near Real Time TEC	Near Real-Time TEC Map, Europe Near Real-Time TEC Map, Global
Forecast TEC	Forecast TEC Map, Europe Forecast TEC Map, Global
Scintillation Indices S₄& σ_φ	Global
Equivalent Slab Thickness	Juliusruh Pruhonice
Rate of Change of TEC Index	ROTI for Europe
Ionospheric Alarms	MUF Alarm

This web page forms part of the European Space Agency's network of space weather services and service development activities, and is supported under ESA contract number 4000134036/21/D/MRP. For further product related information or enquiries contact the helpdesk. E-mail: helpdesk.swe@esa.int

All publications and presentations using data obtained from this site should acknowledge the Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and The ESA Space Safety Programme.

For further information about space weather in the ESA Space Safety Programme see: www.esa.int/spaceweather

Access the ESA SWE Portal here: swe.ssa.esa.int