PITHIA-NRF - Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services: a Network of Research Facilities
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PITHIA-NRF aims at building a European distributed network that integrates observing facilities, data processing tools and prediction models dedicated to ionosphere, thermosphere and plasmasphere research. For the first time, PITHIA-NRF integrates on a European scale, and opens up, to all European researchers, key national and regional research infrastructures such as EISCAT, LOFAR, Ionosondes and Digisondes, GNSS receivers, Doppler sounding systems, riometers, and VLF receivers, ensuring optimal use and joint development.
PITHIA-NRF is designed to provide organized access to experimental facilities, FAIR data, standardized data products, training and innovation services. Furthermore, PITHIA-NRF facilitates drastically research advances in the field of upper atmosphere and near-Earth space, through the integration of data collections from satellite missions (such as Cluster, DEMETER, Swarm and CHAMP) and results from key prediction models (such as IPIM-IRAP, MCM-SWAMI, SWIF and EUHFORIA) that can be accessed by scientific users for join exploitation with the data collected from the research infrastructures of the network.
PITHIA-NRF paves the way for new observing technologies, and to standard-making processes for software and highlevel data products that are tuned to meet the requirements of technologies concerned, linking best-in-class R&D facilities to provide seamless multi-technology services.
You can find more about PITHIA-NRF integration here and PITHIA e-Science Centre here.
Time Frame
2021 – 2025
Funding
The EU Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020
Principal Investigators
- Dr. Anna Belehaki (NOA) - Primary Coordinator
- Dr. Guram Kervalishvili (GFZ)
Personnel
- Dr. Jürgen Matzka (GFZ)
- Jan Rauberg (GFZ)
Cooperations
- National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece
- PITHIA-NRF brings together a wide and complementary consortium of 22 members and 2 third parties from 13 European Union Member States and the United Kingdom
