Rubén Mauricio Romero Ramírez

aireica.com — Real-time environmental monitoring

Full-stack design and deployment. Sensors: PG, PM1/2.5/10, wind, and RTSP video. Paracas alerts and interactive data exploration (Plotly). Private VPS (Linux), automated ingestion, and public visualization.

GOES X-ray Viewer — XRS flux plotter (1995–Present)

Interactive viewer for historical GOES-08 - GOES-16 solar X-ray flux (XRS A/B). Features dynamic data loading, log-scale plotting, and flare class visualization.

GOES Flare Explorer — Historical flare database (1975–Present)

Historical solar flare (GOES) data explorer since 1975. Allows filtering, sorting, and visualizing the complete NOAA event catalog (Classes A, B, C, M, X) in a fast and lightweight web interface.

AFINSA — Electric-field network (2018–Present)

PG processing and analysis in Ica (PER), Atibaia and São Paulo (BRA), and Casleo (ARG). GLM integration to assess lightning distributions and their influence on PG; neural-network modeling.

Additional Web Projects

fumigacionesica.com · dinacocina.com · mutsunica.space

Regime-dependent sensitivity of the atmospheric potential gradient to anthropogenic air pollution in São Paulo, Brazil

Romero Ramirez, R. M., Tacza, J., Vara-Vela, A. L., Szpigel, S., Raulin, J.-P. (2026). In SSRN (Preprint). doi:10.2139/ssrn.6248504

Evaluating the lead-time advantage of atmospheric potential gradient measurements for extreme dust storm nowcasting in Ica, Peru

Romero, R. M., Loayza, R., Orosco, G., Calderon, D., Buleje, Y., Arroyo, J., Tacza, J. C., Szpigel, S., Raulin, J.-P. (In preparation, 2026).

Space weather impact of three solar flares observed by POEMAS

Valio, A., López, K., Gamonal, J., Romero, R., da Silva, D. (2025). In Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. doi:10.1029/2025JA034611

First results of the potential gradient variation in a tropical station in South America (Ica, Peru)

Romero, R., Tacza, J., Arroyo, J., Prieto, F., Macotela, L., Buleje, Y., Loayza, R., Fernandez, U., Raulin, J.-P. (2024). In Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2024.106198

AGU Fall Meeting 2025 – Online (New Orleans, USA)

“Advancing the EGATEC Model: Improving Generator Schemes and Validation with Ground-Based Electric Field Observations”.

XI International Congress and XIII National Congress of Research – CONINTI 2025 (Ica, Peru)

“Integrated Climate Monitoring in Ica: Air Quality Analysis and Early Warning of Dust Storms Using Atmospheric Electric Field Measurements and Meteorological Parameters”.

XIII International Congress on Technology and Innovation & XVI International Congress on Competencies and Multidisciplinarity – CITICI / COINCOM 2025 (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)

“Integrated climate monitoring and early warning of dust storms in Ica - Peru”.

1st National Congress of Pure and Applied Sciences – CONACIPA 2025 (Ica - Peru)

"Monitoring of the Atmospheric Electric Field in South America: Advances and Applications".

Academic Week of Space Geophysics (INPE - Brazil)

"Atmospheric Electricity Research at CRAAM: Toward Regional and Global Applications".

IAGA/IASPEI Joint Scientific Assembly 2025 (Lisbon, Portugal)

Symposium A11: AC–DC Global Circuit for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

“Potential gradient as a proxy for anthropogenic air pollution in São Paulo, Brazil”.

Keynote Lecture - Faculty of Science, UNICA (Peru)

“Global Electric Circuit and Academic Perspectives in Geospatial Sciences”.

Scientific Seminar – UNMSM (Lima, Peru)

“Air quality analysis for early warning of dust storms through climate monitoring in Ica”.

Workshop “Atmospheric Discharges in Dynamic Environments” (Bath, UK)

Odzimek A., Tacza J., Romero R., et al. “The thunderstorm generator in the EGATEC model of the GEC”.

Academic Week of Space Geophysics (INPE – Brazil)

“The Global Atmospheric Electric Circuit: An overview from the AFINSA network”.

São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Solar Activity (CRAAM – Brazil)

“Modeling the impact of space weather and local effects on the Global Atmospheric Electric Circuit”.

PolGEC Workshop 2024 (IG PAS – Poland)

“Neural Network-Based Prediction of the Potential Gradient: Insights from Peru, Argentina, and Brazil”.

International Scientific Meeting – ECI 2023 (Peru)

“Analysis of local and global effects in the variation of the atmospheric electric field in Ica – Peru”.

XII Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics – COLAGE (Chile)

“Status of Activities on Space Weather Research in Ica – Peru”.

XXVIII Peruvian Physics Symposium – Trujillo (Peru)

“Preliminary Results of Atmospheric Electric Field Study and its Variation in the City of Ica”.

International Space Weather Initiative Workshop (Italy)

“Recent activities for space weather research in Ica – Peru”.