84th AMS Annual Meeting

Wednesday, 14 January 2004: 1:30 PM
The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modelling
Room 617
Timothy L. Killeen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. J. Hughes, C. C. Goodrich, J. G. Luhmann, M. K. Hudson, D. N. Baker, R. E. Lopez, and S. C. Solomon
Much of the complex infrastructure that supports our daily lives has become susceptible to disruption as a result of changes in the space environment. There is a growing need to ameliorate this disruption by developing forecast models of the space environment that are analogous to those developed for terrestrial weather forecasts. Several efforts are now underway to develop forecasting tools based on first principles models of the Sun-to-Earth environment. One of these efforts is an NSF Science and Technology Center, called the Center for Integrated Space weather Modelling (CISM), which involves the development of a suite of first-principles models that are being linked to provide forecasts of the entire space environment from the Sun to the bottom of the Earth’s ionosphere. Development work for CISM has continued over the last year and a half; several models have been successfully coupled in an ad hoc sense, and detailed plans have been created for the further development of this coupling, for validation and for metrics. The present status and future plans for this suite of models is described in this talk.

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