PA13E:
The National Space Weather Action Plan: Five Benchmarks for Extreme Space Weather Events

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Session ID#: 13125

Session Description:
The National Space Weather Action Plan identifies approximately 100 distinct activities across six strategic goals. Many of these activities depend on the identification of a series of benchmarks that describe the physical characteristics of space weather events on or near Earth: (1) induced geo-electric fields, (2) ionizing radiation, (3) ionospheric disturbances, (4) solar radio bursts, and (5) upper atmospheric expansion. These benchmarks are intended to provide a description of space weather events based on current scientific understanding and the historical record. This session provides an opportunity for the benchmark developers to present their initial approaches, methodologies, and models for these benchmarks; discuss some of the challenges that must be addressed to improve the benchmarks; and engage the broader scientific community in the discussion.
Primary Convener:  Seth Jonas, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Thomas E Berger, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States and Bill Murtagh, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Seth Jonas, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Bill Murtagh, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bill Murtagh, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics, and SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7954 Magnetic storms [SPACE WEATHER]
7964 Policy [SPACE WEATHER]
7974 Solar effects [SPACE WEATHER]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The solar eruptive event in July 2012: Examining extreme space weather scenarios (Invited) (131732)
Daniel N Baker, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Geoelectric hazard maps for the continental United States (142549)
Jeffrey J Love, USGS Geomagnetism Program, Denver, CO, United States
DEVELOPING BENCHMARKS FOR IONIZING RADIATION (151982)
Elsayed R Talaat1, Terrance G Onsager2, Arik Posner3, John Edward Allen Jr4, Eric R Christian5, Kyle Copeland6, Dan J Fry7, William R Johnston8, Shrikanth G Kanekal9, Janet U Kozyra10, Christopher J Mertens11, Joseph I Minow12, James Pierson13, Robert Rutledge14, Edward Semones15, David G Sibeck16, O C St Cyr5 and Michael Xapsos9, (1)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, SMD/Heliophysics Division, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Federal Aviation Administration, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (7)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (8)Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (11)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (12)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (13)FCC, Howard CO, MD, United States, (14)Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)NASA Johnson Space Center, Space Radiation Analysis Group, Houston, TX, United States, (16)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Ionosphere Response to Extreme Space Weather (160156)
Rodney A Viereck, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States
Developing Benchmarks for Solar Radio Bursts (136603)
Douglas Alan Biesecker, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Stephen M White, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, Nat Gopalswamy, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, United States, Carrie Black, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, Paul Domm, USAF, 2nd Weather Squadron, Omaha, NE, United States, Jeffrey J Love, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States and James Pierson, FCC, Howard CO, MD, United States
The SWAP Upper Atmosphere Expansion Benchmark (168603)
Timothy J Fuller-Rowell1, Eftyhia Zesta2, Sunanda Basu3, Carrie Black4, John T Emmert5, Eric K Sutton6, Jeffrey P Thayer7, Mihail Codrescu8, Mariangel Fedrizzi9, W Kent Tobiska10, Geoff Crowley11, Marcin Pilinski11, Bruce R Bowman12, Thomas N Woods13 and Phillip C Chamberlin2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (4)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (8)Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Space Environment Technologies, Space Systems Division, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States, (11)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States, (13)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States

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