Space Weather Prediction Center

Space Weather Prediction Center

Forecasters inside the SWPC.
Agency overview
Preceding agency
  • Space Environment Center
Headquarters
39°59′30″N 105°15′40″W / 39.991618°N 105.261188°W / 39.991618; -105.261188
Parent agencyNational Centers for Environmental Prediction
Websitewww.swpc.noaa.gov

The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), named the Space Environment Center (SEC) until 2007,[1] is a laboratory and service center of the US National Weather Service (NWS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), located in Boulder, Colorado.[2] SWPC continually monitors and forecasts Earth's space environment, providing solar-terrestrial information. SWPC is the official source of space weather alerts and warnings for the United States.

  1. ^ "2009 Community Review of the NCEP Space Weather Prediction Center" (PDF document). December 2009. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference vastag2012wp was invoked but never defined (see the help page).