The Worldwide Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) Stations (WIPSS) Network: A Ground-Based Heliospheric Observatory for Science and Space Weather

Mario Mark Bisi1, Bernard V Jackson2, Americo Gonzalez-Esparza3, Ernesto Aguilar-Rodriguez4, Munetoshi Tokumaru5, Richard Andrew Fallows6, Oyuki Chang7, Alessandra Abe Pacini8, I. V. Chashei9, S. A. Tyul'bashev9, Yihua Yan10, Kazumasa Iwai11, Choi Jangsuk12, Ken\'ichi Fujiki11, Periasamy K Manoharan13 and David Barnes14, (1)United Kingdom Research and Innovation – Science & Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, (2)Univ California San Diego, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, LANCE, Instituto de Geofisica, Unidad Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico, (4)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Morelia, MH, Mexico, (5)Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (6)ASTRON, The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, Netherlands, (7)UKRI STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom, (8)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Puerto Rico, United States, (9)Lebedev Physical Institute, Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory, Moscow, Russia, (10)National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (11)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (12)Korean Space Weather Center, Jeju-Si, Korea, Republic of (South), (13)National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India, (14)Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11, United Kingdom