Team title: GION - Global Ionosonde Observation Network 
Team ID: O2-09
Team Leads:
Ivan Galkin University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, Ivan_Galkin@uml.edu
Team Co-Lead:
Tobias Verhulst Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium tobias.verhulst@oma.be
Team POC:
Tobias Verhulst Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium tobias.verhulst@oma.be
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Data Utilization
Introduction:
In 2022, the recommendations from the final report of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) Expert Group on Space Weather: Towards improved international coordination for space weather services.
The resulting invitation from the secretariat of the UN COPUOS to the WMO, ISES and COSPAR to take a leadership role in advancing international cooperation and coordination for improved international space weather capabilities. The formal agreement from each of the WMO, ISES and COSPAR to accept this invitation and take an active role in advancing international coordination towards the goal of improved international space weather capabilities by endorsing and signing the “Coimbra Declaration” and set WMO-ISES-COSPAR Coordination Team (WICCT).
The first meeting named International Space Weather Coordination Forum (ISWCF) was held on Nov 17, 2023 in Geneva to bring together representatives from major organizations and activities in space weather. Initial Discussion about the coordination in Space Based Observation, Ground Based Observation and User Engagements.
Objectives:
The goal of the GION team is to integrate ionosonde observatories and data into the existing data sharing system of the WMO. This team is acting as a pilot group, and if successful in integrating ionosonde data in this way, other space weather data sets can be included through a similar process. Currently we are working towards integrating meta-data for current and historic ionosonde observatories into OSCAR/SURFACE.
Action Topics:
Cluster with overlapping topics:
G2B: Ionosphere variability
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