EGU24-7574, updated on 08 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-7574
EGU General Assembly 2024
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An Open Platform for Validating Ambient Solar Wind Models

Barbara Perri1, Martin Reiss2, Karin Muglach3, Evangelia Samara3, Richard Mullinix2, Chiu Wiegand2, and the ISWAT Ambient Solar Wind Validation Team*
Barbara Perri et al.
  • 1Université Paris-Saclay, AIM, Department of Astrophysics, France (barbara.perri@kuleuven.be)
  • 2NASA CCMC
  • 3NASA GSFC
  • *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract

To drive innovation in space weather research and prediction, we need to seek out promising strategies for unifying the validation of our modeling assets. Here we present the activities of the Ambient Solar Wind Validation Team embedded in the COSPAR ISWAT initiative. Our team's mission is to create an open online platform for validating ambient solar wind models at NASA's Community Coordinated Modeling Center. This open platform will allow the community to easily assess the accuracy of state-of-the-art solar wind model solutions in terms of unified metrics, and will thereby provide an unbiased assessment of progress over time. In this presentation, we will introduce the online platform, highlight our progress in developing unified metrics for both historical and near real-time validation, and discuss the current status and future perspectives of this community effort.

ISWAT Ambient Solar Wind Validation Team:

Eric Adamson (CIRES CU Boulder / NOAA SPWC, USA) Rachel Bailey (Space Research Institute - SRI, Graz, AUSTRIA) Sergio Dasso (IAFE/DCAO-FCEN, UBA-CONICET, Argentina) José Juan González (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Laboratorio Nacional de Clima Espacial, Mexico) Siegfried Gonzi (Met Office, UK) Dinesha Vasanta Hegde (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA) Stephan Heinemann (University of Helsinki, FINLAND) Stefan Hofmeister (Polar Geophysical Institute, Apatity, Russia) Jia Huang (University of Michigan, USA) Zhenguang Huang (University of Michigan, USA) Padmanabhan Janardhan (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India) Lan Jian (NASA/GSFC, USA) Sandeep Kumar (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India) Masha Kuznetsova (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA) Paul Lotoaniu (TBD) Peter MacNeice (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA) Mark Miesch (CIRES CU Boulder / NOAA SPWC, USA) Christian Möstl , (Space Research Institute - SRI, Graz, AUSTRIA) Karin Muglach (NASA/GSFC, USA) Richard Mullinix (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA) Onyinye Nwankwo (University of Michigan, USA) Mathew Owens (University of Reading, UK) Barbara Perri (CEA Saclay, France) Gilbert Pi (Charles University, Czech) Rui Pinto (IRAP, University of Toulouse, FRANCE) Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama, USA) Martin Reiss (Space Research Institute - SRI, Graz, AUSTRIA) Victor Réville (IRAP, University of Toulouse, FRANCE) Pete Riley (Predictive Science Inc., USA) Nishtha Sachdeva (University of Michigan, USA) Evangelia Samara (NASA/GSFC, USA) Camilla Scolini (University of New Hampshire, USA) Nandita Srivastava (Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, India) Dibyendu Sur (University of Colorado / SWx TREC, USA) Manuela Temmer (University of Graz, AUSTRIA) Christine Verbeke (KU Leuven, BELGIUM) Chiu Wiegand (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA) Yihua Zheng (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)

How to cite: Perri, B., Reiss, M., Muglach, K., Samara, E., Mullinix, R., and Wiegand, C. and the ISWAT Ambient Solar Wind Validation Team: An Open Platform for Validating Ambient Solar Wind Models, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-7574, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-7574, 2024.