NH44A:
Extreme Space Weather Benchmarks: Phase 1 Update and Next Steps

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Session ID#: 25778

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 process, 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
Convener:  William J Murtagh, NOAA Boulder, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Seth Jonas, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States and William J Murtagh, NOAA Boulder, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William J Murtagh, NOAA Boulder, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States
Co-Organized with:
Natural Hazards, Public Affairs, SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences, and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Overview of Goal 1 (Establish Benchmarks for Space-Weather Events) of the National Space Weather Action Plan (Invited) (291553)
Steven W Clarke, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States; Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, United States
Extreme-event geoelectric hazard maps (Invited) (207665)
Jeffrey J Love, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Paul Bedrosian, USGS, Denver, CO, United States
Space Weather Action Plan Ionizing Radiation Benchmarks: Phase 1 update and plans for Phase 2 (Invited) (207659)
Elsayed R Talaat1, Janet Kozyra2, Terrance G Onsager3, Arik Posner4, John Edward Allen Jr5, Carrie Black6, Eric R Christian7, Kyle Copeland8, Dan J Fry9, William R Johnston10, Shrikanth G Kanekal11, Christopher J Mertens12, Joseph I Minow13, James Pierson14, Robert Rutledge15, Edward Semones16, David G Sibeck17, O C St Cyr7 and Michael Xapsos17, (1)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, VA, United States, (3)NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States, (4)NASA Headquarters, SMD/Heliophysics Division, Washington, DC, United States, (5)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (6)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Federal Aviation Administration, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (9)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (10)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (11)Heliophysics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (13)NASA MSFC, Huntsville, United States, (14)FCC, Howard CO, MD, United States, (15)Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)NASA Johnson Space Center, Space Radiation Analysis Group, Houston, TX, United States, (17)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Space Weather Action Plan Solar Radio Burst Phase 1 Benchmarks and the Steps to Phase 2 (Invited) (214854)
Douglas Alan Biesecker, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Stephen M White, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Nat Gopalswamy, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, United States, Carrie Black, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, Jeffrey J Love, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Geomagnetism Program, Golden, CO, United States and James Pierson, FCC, Howard CO, MD, United States
The SWAP Upper Atmosphere Expansion Benchmark: Updates and Challenges (Invited) (206244)
Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States

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