Royal Astronomical Society / British Geophysical Association
Discussion Meeting -
9th October 2009
The Geomagnetic Field: Preparing for the Swarm Multi-Satellite Mission
Royal Astronomical Society Lecture Theatre
Burlington House
London, UK
This meeting focused on the upcoming ESA Swarm mission, which has the
primary aims to map the near-Earth geomagnetic field, the lithospheric
surface field contributions, and the external ionospheric/magnetospheric
current systems. It brought together workers from all areas of
UK geomagnetic interest to examine the scientific opportunities and
challenges of the unique 3-satellite configuration.
The abstract book including the list of talks is available
here.
Funding Discussions
Members of the
GEOSPACE
consortium have been in discussions with the National Centre for Earth
Observation (NCEO)
concerning possible long-term funding of Swarm-related science,
and also other topics of interest related to geomagnetic Earth observation
and hazard (particularly space weather). Our
initial position document
was received positively. At the meeting (and afterwards),
discussion was broadly
(but not completely) supportative of a community application to NCEO;
the development of a bid is ongoing.
Talks
PDFs of the talks given are available through the following links:
