Introduction of CCMC and SWRC

1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Introduction of CCMC and SWRC • Yihua Zheng • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center • http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa,gov • http://swrc.gsfc.nasa,gov International Space Weather Winter School 21 -26 January 2013 1 NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterSoftware Engineering Division www.nasa.gov

2. Outline • Intro of CCMC and NASA Space Weather Research Center • Services and Capabilities • ISWA • Summary

3. CCMC: Community Coordinated Modeling Center “A US multi-agency partnership to enable, support, and perform the research and development for next generation space science and space weather models”

6. CCMC • Serves models to the research community • Develops advanced on-line visualization and analysis tools • Highly utilized world-wide: > 6000 runs (~ 40 per week), 100s publications/presentations • Tests models, facilitates improvements • Develops innovative space weather prediction systems ready to be used by space weather forecasters and decision makers.

7. NASA GSFC Space Weather Research Center Primary Objective: Provide the latest space weather information to NASA’s robotic mission operators and bring space weather knowledge to the public. Objectives: provide the latest space weather information to NASA’s robotic mission operators, as well as DoD partners. since March 2010

8. Space Weather Forecasting @ NASA/SWRC Space Weather Research Center Community Coordinated Modeling Center Protecting NASA’s Missions Tools for Citizen Scientists Partnering iSWA System Space Weather Related Research NASA, Other, (near) Real-time Data Streams Education & Training

9. Space Weather Research Center Community Coordinated Modeling Center CCMC SWRC (in operation since 2010) (in operation since 2000) Space Weather Services to NASA’s Robotic Missions Facilitate Community Research Support R2O Transition Test Drive RT SWx Products Knowledge to the Public ultimate test of accuracy and robustness

10. Leveraging CCMC Modeling Capabilities Comprehensive Collection Of Models Running In Real-time • CME & ambient solar wind forecasting (WSA+ENLIL+Cone, WSA+ENLIL, HELTOMO) • Flare forecasting/monitoring (ASAP) • Radiation (ions and e-) forecasting/now casting (RELeASE, RBE) • 3-D States of the magnetosphere and ionosphere (SWMF, CTIPe, Fok RC, RBE) • Scintillation, HF absorption, drag effects, Aurora, etc (PBMOD, AbbyNormal, CTIPe, OP). • Forecasting GICs (SWMF and its coupling with other models). PFSS ASAP Heliospheric Tomography PBMOD – ionospheric scintillation WSA ENLIL Fok RC/RBE CTIPe WSA+Cone+ENLIL AbbyNormal Ovation Prime RELeASE SWMF SC/IH/BATSRUS+RCM/GITM …enabling the creation of next generation prediction systems 10

11. SWRC Activities I • Monitor and analyze space environment (~16 h/day) using innovative tools (web-based, smartphone apps, +). • Daily logs and Database of space weather events. Watch for interesting/unusual features. • Sending out timely space weather notifications and forecasts of adverse conditions throughout the solar system to NASA mission operators & involved personnel. 6

12. SWRC Activities II • Weekly space weather reports and event summaries. • Assistance in spacecraft anomaly resolution. • Material for SWRC website and social media • Daily 15 min tag-ups. 7

13. SWRC Youtube videos • http://www.youtube.com/user/NASASpaceWeather

14. iSWA email website twitter Facebook Event Chains SWx Events Reports SWx Activities Space Weather Event Logging System Space Weather Event Logging System • Forecasters log space weather events and activities • Allow events/activity chains, establish cause and effect relationships • Multi user/forecaster system designed to promote community involvement • Entry point for initiating alerts, cataloging events • Knowledge management system for human generated logs, analysis

15. Innovative Dissemination: iSWA ISWA has ~300 products including modeling results and comprehensive sets of observational data. Web-based. User configurable. Available world-wide. One-stop shop for state-of-the-art information! http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov

16. Configurable Layouts

18. iSWA enables tracking space weather events in interplanetary space (throughout the solar system) and analyzing their expected impacts iSWA One iSWA layout for the 12 July 2012 space weather event http://bit.ly/July12_2012 This web link provides a dynamic (and rather comprehensive) view of this solar event

19. Forecasting Earth-Directed CME and its impact the 12 July 2012 solar eruption a minor radiation storm (SEP) But a major geomagnetic storm

20. Modeling of the 12 July 2012 CME V=1400 km/s, associated with an X1.4 class solar flare

21. Earth’s Response to the CME’s Arrival The CME seen by STEREO A Resulting in a Kp = 7- on a scale from 0 – 9, Kp: a measure of geomagnetic disturbances

22. 2 July 2012 CME heading towards STEREO B History of the same active region

23. History of the Active RegionCME Arrival at STEREO B

24. High spatial/temporal res runs can be done through CCMC run-on-request The above results are from our real-time runs in supporting SWRC functions

25. Students’ Opportunites • Research projects using CCMC/SWRC capabilities. • run-on-request services • database of interesting space weather events • CCMC Student Research Contest winners (spring semester). • Emily Hyatt, Embry-Riddle (talk at GEM workshop). • Corinna Gressl, Institude of Physics in Gratz (presentation at SHINE). • Space Weather REDI Summer Camp (June 3 - 14, 2013) • An intense 2-week training camp including teaching basic space weather knowledge and how SWRC does SWx operations

26. Solar-Helio Models

27. Summary • CCMC/SWRC: valuable tools/resources for research, education and space weather needs • Suggestions on further improvement are always welcome

28. ENLIL