SM11E:
Assessment of Space Environment Models and Data: Validation Metrics, Frameworks, and Applications I

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Session ID#: 24743

Session Description:
The assessment of both scientific understanding and its application to societal needs can drive progress through providing direction, and constructive feedback into the research efforts of a field. The tools needed to assess and track this progress include metrics, validation techniques, and framework designs. Advances in computation and instrumentation, and the resulting large data sets, provide new potential for system-wide assessment. However, they also provide a challenge for the relevant frameworks. Many of the needed tools can be cross-disciplinary in their applicability, and the space physics research community can learn from, and share with the Earth and atmospheric science communities, who likewise share the goals of both scientific understanding, and applications beneficial to society. The goal of this session is to bring these research communities together to discuss current efforts, successful approaches, and lessons learned in building and applying tools for validation, metrics, and applications to societal needs.
Primary Convener:  Adam C Kellerman, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Alexa Jean Halford, PhD. , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jeff Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Adam C Kellerman, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Dr. Alexa Jean Halford, PhD. , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Katherine Garcia-Sage, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Magnetospheric Physics, and SPA-Aeronomy

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

1902 Community modeling frameworks [INFORMATICS]
1904 Community standards [INFORMATICS]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7959 Models [SPACE WEATHER]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Predicting ionospheric scintillation: Recent advancements and future challenges (Invited) (209259)
Brett A Carter1,2, Julie Louise Currie3, Michael Terkildsen4, Zahra Bouya4 and Murray L Parkinson4, (1)RMIT University, SPACE Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)RMIT University, School of Science, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (3)RMIT University, SPACE research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (4)Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Space Weather Services, Sydney, Australia
A Practitioners Perspective on Verification (Invited) (211325)
Robert A Steenburgh, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Clarksville, MD, United States
Lessons learned from recent geomagnetic disturbance model validation activities (Invited) (212078)
Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Daniel T Welling, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Assessing and Adapting Scientific Results for Space Weather Research to Operations (R2O) (Invited) (214459)
Barbara J Thompson1, Lawrence Friedl2, Dr. Alexa Jean Halford, PhD. 1, M. Leila Mays3, Antti A Pulkkinen4, Howard J Singer5, Dr. Jeffrey William Stehr, Ph.D.6 and International Forum for Space Weather Capabilities Assessment Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Booz Allen Hamilton DC, Washington, United States
Verification of space weather forecasts at the UK Met Office (Invited) (250667)
Suzy Bingham1, Michael Sharpe1, David Jackson1 and Sophie A. Murray2, (1)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Trinity College Dublin, School of Physics, Dublin, Ireland
Space Weather Forecasting at NOAA with Michigan’s Geospace Model: Results from the First Year in Real-Time Operations (253355)
Michele D Cash1, Howard J Singer2, George H Millward3, Christopher C Balch4, Gabor Toth5 and Daniel T Welling5, (1)NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CU/CIRES NOAA/SWPC, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Magnetopause Standoff Position Changes and Geosynchronous Orbit Crossings: Models and Observations (283973)
Yaireska M Collado-Vega, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David G Sibeck, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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