Session: The Application Usability Level (AUL) Framework: A Standard Measure of Progress to Benefit Heliophysics Research and the Needs of Our Society (AGU Fall Meeting 2018)

SM52B:
The Application Usability Level (AUL) Framework: A Standard Measure of Progress to Benefit Heliophysics Research and the Needs of Our Society

Session ID#: 61068

Session Description:

This session will report on the ongoing efforts from the International Forum for Space Weather Capabilities Assessment and other groups, as well as bring research communities together to discuss current efforts, successful approaches, and lessons learned in building and applying validations and metrics. We invite papers which utilize the recently developed Application Usability Level (AUL) framework to measure a project’s progress towards specific applications, including metrics, and verification processes implemented, and how they address the needs of the identified user. A panel session will be held to showcase examples of projects utilizing the AUL framework, followed by a discussion the importance of communication and having the effort directed by an user’s needs. The session will highlight efforts in research to operation and operation to research, and demonstrate how this is a two-way street which advances knowledge for research and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of efforts to directly benefit society.

Primary Convener: Adam C Kellerman, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States

Conveners: Jeff Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Dr. Alexa Jean Halford, PhD. , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Primary Liaison: Adam C Kellerman, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, 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: Jeff Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Co-Organized with:
SPA-Magnetospheric Physics, and SPA-Aeronomy

Cross-Listed:

IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
SA - SPA-Aeronomy
SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:

SA - SPA-Aeronomy

Index Terms:

1904 Community standards [INFORMATICS]
2494 Instruments and techniques [IONOSPHERE]
2794 Instruments and techniques [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Broadening the Impact of Our Field Through Validation Efforts of the Geospace Environment Modeling Workshop (Invited) (349010)

Katherine Garcia-Sage^1,2, Michael Warren Liemohn³, Lutz Rastaetter⁴, Robert J Redmon⁵, Dr. Alexa Jean Halford, PhD. ¹, Adam C Kellerman⁶, Heli Hietala^7,8, Kyle R Murphy¹, Michael Hartinger⁹, Yaireska M Collado-Vega¹⁰ and Robert M Robinson¹¹, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (9)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (10)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, United States

Tracking Progress Along CCMC's Model On-boarding Pipeline (Invited) (349021)

M. Leila Mays¹, Masha Kuznetsova², Lutz Rastaetter³, Tina Tsui⁴, Peter J MacNeice⁵, Aleksandre Taktakishvili⁶, Yihua Zheng⁷, Yaireska M Collado-Vega⁴, Ja Soon Shim⁸, Chiu Wiegand⁷, Richard Mullinix⁷, Asher D Pembroke⁹, Anna Chulaki¹⁰, Anne Michelle M Mendoza³ and Community Coordinated Modeling Center, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (7)Community Coordinated Modeling Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (9)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (10)NASA GSFC/CUA, Greenbelt, United States

The Application Usability Levels and the Operational Space Weather Modeling Framework (Invited) (459026)

Daniel T Welling¹, Gabor Toth², Tamas I Gombosi², Michele D Cash³, Howard J Singer⁴, George H Millward⁵ and Christopher C Balch⁶, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)NASA, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)CU/CIRES NOAA/SWPC, Boulder, United States, (6)NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States

Developing Applications for Satellite Anomaly Analysis (Invited) (391278)

Janet C Green¹, Richard A Quinn², Paul Whelan³, Nils Reker³, Yuri Shprits^4,5, Justin J Likar⁶ and Adam C Kellerman⁷, (1)Space Hazards Applications, LLC, Golden, United States, (2)AER, Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (5)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (6)Advanced Technologies Consultants of Princeton, LLC, Southbury, CT, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States

Predicting Equatorial Plasma Bubbles: The Rear-View Mirror on the AUL Highway (Invited) (401169)

Julie Louise Currie, RMIT University, SPACE research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Brett A Carter, RMIT University, SPACE Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Michael Terkildsen, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Space Weather Services, Sydney, Australia

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Space Weather R2O (Invited) (419870)

James Parker McCollough II, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, Michael J Starks, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, United States and Carl J Henney, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Earth Science Applications: Perspectives on AULs (Invited) (433044)

Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States