The NASA Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) Next Generation Space Weather Data Warehouse

Marlo MH Maddox1, Maria M Kuznetsova2, Antti A Pulkkinen3, Yihua Zheng4, Lutz Rastaetter5, Anna Chulaki6, Asher D Pembroke7, Chiu Wiegand4, Richard Mullinix4, Justin M Boblitt8, Anne Michelle M Mendoza5, Marshall J. Swindell IV1, Sarabjit S. Bakshi9, M Leila Mays9, Ja Soon Shim10, Michael Hesse11, Yaireska M Collado-Vega12, Aleksandre Taktakishvili13, Peter J MacNeice9 and Community Coordinated Modeling Center, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Space Weather Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Community Coordinated Modeling Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (8)Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (12)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (13)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstract:
The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables, supports, and performs research and development for next generation space science and space weather models. The CCMC currently hosts a large and expanding collection of state-or-the-art, physics-based space weather models that have been developed by the international research community. There are many tools and services provided by the CCMC that are currently available world-wide, along with the ongoing development of new innovative systems and software for research, discovery, validation, visualization, and forecasting.

Over the history of the CCMC's existence, there has been one constant engineering challenge - describing, managing, and disseminating data. To address the challenges that accompany an ever-expanding number of models to support, along with a growing catalog of simulation output - the CCMC is currently developing a flexible and extensible space weather data warehouse to support both internal and external systems and applications.

This paper intends to chronicle the evolution and future of the CCMC's data infrastructure, and the current infrastructure re-engineering activities that seek to leverage existing community data model standards like SPASE and the IMPEx Simulation Data Model.

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