Developing New Tools for Space Weather Science and Applications

NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program provides small companies a unique opportunity to develop innovative tools for the advancement of space weather science and applications. In this presentation, we introduce and discuss two projects that are currently funded by the SBIR program at our company, Predictive Science Incorporated. The first project, entitled "Interactive Tool for Modeling Multiple Solar Eruptions" (PI Tibor Torok), aims at developing an interactive and highly automated tool that will allow non-expert users to routinely model multiple coronal mass ejections in a realistic coronal and heliospheric environment. The main objective of the second project, entitled "An Extensible Tool for Estimating Space Weather Benchmarks" (PI Pete Riley), is to develop an open-source tool that combines the most robust techniques, together with a wide range of data from the Heliophysics System Observatory, and the option to upload user-supplied data, to produce the most accurate estimates of space weather benchmarks, including their uncertainties.