The Community Coordinated Modeling Center: Supporting space weather models from research to operations
Claudio Corti, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Physics and Astronomy Department
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Abstract.
The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) is a multi-agency partnership enabling, supporting, and performing research and development for next-generation space science and space weather models. A mix of scientists and software engineers, CCMC performs multiple functions necessary to advance heliophysics modeling capabilities: hosting and maintaining a collection of space science/space weather models and modeling results; providing simulation services to the space weather community; developing tools for visualization, analysis, and dissemination of modeling results; testing, validating, and prototyping models and forecasting techniques; supporting community-wide projects; and executing real-time models and developing space weather tools for research and operational communities. After introducing CCMC activities, we will focus on the Integrated Solar Energetic Proton Alert/Warning System (ISEP) project.
The ISEP project is a partnership between CCMC, NASA Johnson Space Center's Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office (M2M SWAO). ISEP goals are to identify, transition, and evaluate new models; develop CCMC SEP Scoreboard software tailored for SRAG; and implement these capabilities within CCMC as a non-operational prototype. As part of ISEP, over 10 SEP models have been implemented from the research community and are now available on the SEP Scoreboard display in real-time. One element of the partnership is the transitioning of ISEP models/software from CCMC to M2M, who provide expert space environment analysis for SRAG console operators. Central to this project was the development of the SEP Scoreboard web application. The SEP scoreboard automatically displays and ingests forecasts of SEP onset, duration, peak flux, probability, all-clear, and overall profile. The SEP Scoreboard is part of SRAG Concept of Operations for Artemis II. ISEP is actively evaluating the SEP Scoreboard models and iterating with model developers on improvements. SRAG has developed a validation framework called SPHINX (Solar Particles in the Heliosphere validation INfrastructure for SpWx) as a generalized, automated tool that can validate any kind of forecasted quantity from any type of SEP prediction model, and the VIVID (Validation in Visually Interactive Displays) web application to explore the results. ISEP has also inspired a successful community SEP validation effort called SEPVAL.
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Created 2025-06-26 11:22:24 by Mats Holmström Last changed 2025-09-16 08:48:50 by Mats Holmström
