SH12A-06
Presenting DSCOVR: The First NOAA Mission to Leave Earth Orbit
Monday, 14 December 2015: 11:50
2011 (Moscone West)
Douglas Alan Biesecker1, Alysha Reinard1, Michele D Cash2, Jeff Johnson1,2, Michael Burek1,2, Curt A de Koning3, Adam Szabo4, Andriy Koval4, Justin Christophe Kasper5, Michael Louis Stevens6, Anthony W Case6, Kevin Berberich7 and Patricia Mulligan7, (1)NOAA Boulder, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)NOAA, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Abstract:
On February 11, 2015 the NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite was launched and is now in a Lissajous Orbit about the L1 Lagrange point. DSCOVR replaces the NASA Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) as the operational Real-Time Solar Wind (RTSW) monitor at the L1 Lagrange point. This is the first NOAA operational satellite to perform this function and represents the first of many expected satellites from NOAA to maintain this essential space weather monitoring capability. In this talk, we will review basic details of the DSCOVR mission as well as the real-time space weather data being provided, including comparisons to ACE. This will include a discussion of the robust averaging algorithms (Maximum Likelihood and Hodges-Lehmann) being applied to the data to ignore outliers and noisy data. We will also show the way users can access real-time DSCOVR data from the NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) website. Finally, we will present the baseline NOAA mission for the DSCOVR replacement and detail the path forward.
