NSF Support of Space Weather Research

NSF's primary role in developing space weather readiness for the nation is in the support of basic research that advances fundamental understanding of space weather and related processes, specifically, the generation of solar storms, their propagation through the interplanetary medium, and the generation of disturbances in the near-Earth space environment and atmosphere. NSF supports the development of models for space weather processes, observations of the space weather system from a variety of ground and space-based platforms ranging from advance ionospheric radars to CubeSats. The goal of these research activities is further refining our understanding of the space weather system. These research activities are to benefit because they contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes, such asimproving space weather predictive capability.