SH21F:
Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, and Missing Information II

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Session ID#: 15869

Session Description:
Society is ever-more reliant on reliable energy supplies and the technologies which they enable/run.  These are susceptible to both extreme and everyday space weather (SW); the latter in the current solar cycle has proven to be more-surprisingly influenced by solar-wind structures and not just CME events.  Such susceptibilities include power grids, aviation/maritime, communications, GNSS positioning/timing, etc...

Following the highly-successful session at Fall-AGU-2015, this session is intended to follow-up and expand/continue the assessment of the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where additional-services/improvements are necessary to advance our SW forecast/prediction capabilities.

The session solicits contributions of: the provision of suitable observations/measurements; the developments of scientific models into operational use; and ongoing developments of SW forecasting.  Contributions emphasizing science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES/DSCOVR/NOAA-2020/Carrington) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also very-much welcomed.
Primary Convener:  Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, LANCE, Instituto de Geofisica, Unidad Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico
Chairs:  Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Magnetospheric Physics, and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Current gaps in understanding and predicting space weather: An operations perspective  (196213)
William J Murtagh, NOAA Boulder, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States
Carrington Mission and Beyond – What are the Challenges to be Scientifically and Operationally Addressed? (134102)
Mark Gibbs, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
Space Weather Forecasting for Practical Applications in Africa – the SANSA Perspective (171625)
John Bosco Habarulema, Mpho Tshisaphungo, Teboho Nxele, Rendani R Nndanganeni, Stefan Lotz, Pierre J Cilliers, Michael J Kosch and Lee-Anne McKinnell, South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa
Physics-based Space Weather Forecasting in the Project for Solar-Terrestrial Environment Prediction (PSTEP) in Japan (161004)
Kanya Kusano, Nagoya University, Institute for Space and Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan
An outline of the review on space weather in Latin America: space science, research networks and space weather center (131682)
Clezio Marcos De Nardin, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Sergio Dasso, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, LANCE, Instituto de Geofisica, Unidad Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico
Overview of NASA Heliophysics and the Science of Space Weather (179523)
Steven W Clarke, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

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