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Met Office

Space Weather R2O Maintenance - University of Reading

ValueValue not published
Deadline
Published2 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
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The brief

'Space Weather Implementation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk' (SWIMMR), was a £19.9m UKRI SPF funded programme led by STFC from 2019, and which largely concluded in 2023.

Several of the projects were targeted at space weather scientific modelling gaps, with the aim of bringing them into operation for forecast capabilities in the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC).

The project 'S3' stood up systems and enabled collaboration between academic partners and the Met Office space weather programme, bringing a platform 'sandbox environment' and portal for monitoring outputs into use at the Met Office (MO) where our scientists worked with several academic partners to bring their models into use.

Whilst the original SWIMMR programme made this collaboration possible, there is much work remaining to bring the models into working operational use by the target date of September 202…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Space Weather CSA with the Department

The Space Weather CSA with the Department for Science and Technology (DSIT) sets out a required output for the Met Office to Support the validation, integration and exploitation of new capabilities and data delivered through the SPF SWIMMR Programme.

02

Met Office Space Weather (MOSW) has agreed

Met Office Space Weather (MOSW) has agreed with funding partner DSIT to deliver several targets for the next phase of work:.

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Source & provenance
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