Explore Space Weather with the Community Coordinated Modeling Center's hands-on Tools

The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) supports heliophysics educational endeavors such as space weather summer schools, contests, research visits and exchanges. The CCMC has developed new resources for the public to engage with the Sun's influence on Earth and the entire solar system during the year leading to a solar maximum. Learn about the new resources available on the CCMC’s website to engage with the Heliophysics Big Year (HBY), the global celebration of solar science. The CCMC has enhanced their Integrated Space Weather Analysis (ISWA) system with several key features to enable the community to analyze dynamic time periods including great storms. The improved ISWA system now supports global synchronization of images and timelines to enable easy illustration of the onset and evolution of storms to a broader audience. It has improved support allowing users to design layouts focusing on specific physical phenomena, like solar flares, along the Sun-to-Earth path to make it easier to communicate to a larger variety of audiences. This flexibility enables the educator to tailor the display to tell the story of the storms, describe key physical processes, and communicate this complex chain of space environment phenomena in a targeted fashion. The CCMC has partnered with various Citizen Science efforts in the past and is excited to help support others in the future.