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SWIFF : S pace W eather I ntegrated F orecasting F ramework

Coordinator: Giovanni Lapenta Centrum voor Plasma- Astrofysica Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BELGIUM. SWIFF : S pace W eather I ntegrated F orecasting F ramework. Swiff.eu. New FP7 project on space weather modelling.

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SWIFF : S pace W eather I ntegrated F orecasting F ramework

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  1. Coordinator: Giovanni Lapenta Centrum voor Plasma-Astrofysica KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven BELGIUM SWIFF: Space Weather Integrated Forecasting Framework Swiff.eu

  2. New FP7 project on space weather modelling

  3. Fundamental challenge of space weather modelling: multiple phyiscs ionosphere solar environment magnetotail interplanetary plasmas, dust... magnetosphere sun-to-earth sun-effect propagation polar cusps 3 TRACE September 2005 LASCO September 2002 IMAGE July 2000

  4. High performance computer simulation of space weather KU Leuven

  5. New FP7 project on space weather modelling

  6. OUR APPROACH Goal of Swiff State of the Art hours 106 km FLUID SYSTEM scales 1 m 105 km 1 s 103 km ION scales 10-3 s 102 km 10-4 s 100 km ELECTRON scales KINETIC 10-5 s 10-1 km SWIFF allows to bridge the micro-macro gap by using new methods to couple fluid and kinetic physics

  7. Fundamental challenge of space weather modeling: multiple physics 7

  8. INTEL ExaScience Lab in Leuven • June 8, 2010New Lab to Develop Solar Flare Prediction as Driver for Intel’s Future Exascale Supercomputers • Intel, imec and Five Flemish Universities Open Flanders ExaScience Lab exascience.com Positionavailablerelative to spaceweather

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