Artificial Intelligence (AI) Approaches for scientific discovery in Solar Wind-Earth Interactions

Session ID#: 281203

Session Description:
This session highlights the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in advancing scientific discovery within the heliophysics community. We focus on recent progress in AI methodologies that enable new insights and complement traditional research approaches. Contributions are invited that apply AI across heliophysical domains, including the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and mesosphere.

We encourage studies that integrate AI techniques, such as data-driven deep learning, interpretable machine-learning, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), and PDE-based approaches, with established methods, including theory, first-principles simulations, empirical modeling, and statistical analyses. Such integrative approaches are essential for improving our understanding of complex Sun-Earth system dynamics.

This session is organized in collaboration with the ML-based Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) resource group, which focuses on advancing data-driven heliophysics modeling. Our goal is to bring together current AI-driven efforts and promote collaboration across the heliophysics community to accelerate progress in understanding solar wind-Earth interactions.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Index Terms:

0555 Neural networks, fuzzy logic, machine learning [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Dr. Xiangning Chu, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Sai Gowtam Valluri, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dr. Banafsheh Ferdousi, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Matthew R Argall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States