ИСТИНА

National Central University in Jongli, Taiwan has several research centers conducting space weather studies: Institute of Space Science (ISS), Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research (CSRSR), GPS Science and Application Research Center (GPS ARC). They cover a wide area of research topics on ground based and spaceborne observations, computer simulations and modeling. In the presentation, I focus on a complex technique of the ionospheric and magnetospheric observations, which is based on ground based networks of various instruments and fleets of satellites such as COSMIC, NOAA and modern space missions Van Allen, ERG, Swarm etc. The ground based facilities include GPS receivers, ionozondes (vertical and oblique), magnetometers etc. The technique allows monitoring of the space weather conditions at low altitudes of the thermosphere and ionosphere from equatorial to auroral latitudes in various longitudinal and LT sectors. It makes possible to determine key space weather parameters such as the energy input into the polar and auroral ionosphere and atmosphere by means of detecting of auroral oval and measuring the power and effects of particle precipitations at high and middle latitudes. The increasing role of the groundbased networks in the space weather monitoring with participation of scientists from Korea, Japan and China will be discussed. Perspectives of future cooperation and joint studies will be considered.