Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-9-53-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-9-53-2018
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04 May 2018
Review article |  | 04 May 2018

The development of the Australian Space Forecast Centre (ASFC)

Phil Wilkinson, John A. Kennewell, and David Cole

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The Australian Space Forecast Centre (ASFC) had its origins in the International Geophysical Year (IGY), 1957–58, when a need arose for short-term forecasts of the near-space environment to support the IGY scientific programmes. Skills developed during the IGY provided the platform for building the current space weather services, which take advantage of internet communications, a wide range of space-based imagery and our significantly enhanced scientific knowledge of the space environment.