NH43A:
Benchmarks for Extreme Space Weather Events


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Session ID#: 50565

Session Description:
The National Space Weather Action Plan identifies a number of activities to enhance national preparedness to space weather events. 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 challenges that must be addressed to improve the benchmarks; and engage the broader scientific community in the discussion. This session also is an opportunity for the developers of the next phase of benchmarks to discuss the path forward.
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
Primary Liaison:  Seth Jonas, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, 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:  Seth Jonas, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Organized with:
Natural Hazards, Public Affairs, and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]
7904 Geomagnetically induced currents [SPACE WEATHER]
7964 Policy [SPACE WEATHER]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Magnetic-storm geoelectric hazard maps and the induction of voltages on power-grids (Invited) (380919)
Jeffrey J Love, USGS Geomagnetism Program, Denver, CO, United States, Paul Bedrosian, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States, Greg Lucas, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, United States, Anna Kelbert, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Science Explorer (SciX), Cambridge, United States and Erin Joshua Rigler, USGS, Denver, CO, United States
Phase One Ionizing Radiation Benchmarks and Next Steps (Invited) (441319)
Janet Kozyra, NASA Headquarters, Washington, VA, United States; University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jeff Morrill, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and James F Spann, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Space Weather Observations Office, Lanham, United States
Solar Radio Burst Phase 1 Benchmarks and Progress Towards Phase 2 (Invited) (361041)
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 and Jeffrey J Love, USGS Geomagnetism Program, Denver, CO, United States
The Challenges of Predicting Upper Atmosphere Expansion for Extreme Events (Invited) (369355)
Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, United States
Space Weather Benchmarks: Current status and future plans (Invited) (373973)
Michael James Wiltberger, National Science Foundation, Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, Alexandria, VA, United States
Benchmarking Ionospheric Disturbances During Extreme the Space Weather Events (Invited) (433351)
Irfan Azeem, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States and Rodney A Viereck, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States

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