Abstract
Abstract. The Ionospheric Prediction Service (IPS) was formed in 1947 to provide
monthly prediction services for high frequency (HF) radio, in particular to
support HF communications with the United Kingdom. It was quickly recognized
that to be effective such a service also had to provide advice when
ionospheric storms prevented HF communications from taking place. With the
advent of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), short-term forecasts were
also required for research programmes and the task of supplying the Australian
input to these was given to Frank Cook, of the IPS, while Jack Turner, also of the IPS, supervised the generation of ionospheric maps to support high latitude
HF communications. These two important IGY activities formed the platform on
which all future IPS services would be built. This paper reviews the
development of the Australian Space Forecast Centre (ASFC), which
arose from these early origins.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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