May 20, 2011, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
May 20, 2011, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Heliophysics Director's Seminar
Space Weather Services at Goddard
Dr. Yihua Zheng,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The Space Weather Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has developed space weather products/capabilities/services that not only serve NASA and but also address broader national needs by leveraging the latest scientific research results, data streams from NASA missions, and state-of-the-art models hosted at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center. ISWA, an innovative web-based dissemination system for space weather analysis, is the main platform for enabling our space weather services. These include 1) sending out weekly space weather reports/summaries to NASA mission operators, NASA officials and involved personnel; 2) sending out timely space weather alerts/forecasts regarding adverse conditions throughout the solar system, such as significant flare/CME events or elevated radiation levels; 3) providing assistance in spacecraft anomaly resolution by assessing whether space weather has any role in causing the observed anomaly/anomalies; 4) providing general space weather support for NASA customers. Here I will illustrate how we can use ISWA to track space weather disturbances/events, their evolution & impacts throughout the interplanetary space.
The Integrated Space Weather Analysis System
Mr. Marlo Maddox,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Access to near real-time and real-time space weather data is essential to accurately specifying and forecasting the space environmen. The Space Weather Desk at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Weather Laboratory provides vital space weather forecasting services primarily to NASA robotic mission operators, as well as external space weather stakeholders including the Air Force Weather Agency. A key component in this activity is the iNtegrated Space Weather Analysis System which is a joint development project at NASA GSFC between the Space Weather Laboratory, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Applied Engineering & Technology Directorate, and NASA HQ Office Of Chief Engineer. The iSWA system was developed to address technical challenges in acquiring and disseminating space weather environment information. A key design driver for the iSWA system was to generate and present vast amounts of space weather resources in an intuitive, user-configurable, and adaptable format - thus enabling users to respond to current and future space weather impacts as well as enabling post-impact analysis. Having access to near real-time and real-time data is essential to not only ensuring that relevant observational data is available for analysis - but also in ensuring that models can be driven with the requisite input parameters at proper and efficient temporal and spatial resolutions. The iSWA system currently manages over 300 unique near-real and real-time data feeds from various sources consisting of both observational and simulation data. A comprehensive suite of actionable space weather analysis tools and products are generated and provided utilizing a mixture of the ingested data - enabling new capabilities in quickly assessing past, present, and expected space weather effects. This presentation will highlight current and future iSWA system capabilities.
Data Analysis Tools from the Community Coordinated Modeling Center
David Berrios,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The Community Coordinated Modeling Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, have developed new tools to analyze space weather simulation data. These include a new web-based data streaming service for modeled data, the Kameleon access and interpolation library, and a Java-based 3D visualization program. We describe these tools and the technologies behind them, and talk about the future and how these tools will evolve to create exciting new services.