NH018
Extreme Space Weather Benchmarks: The Next Steps
Session ID#: 80937
Session Description:
The National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan (2019) identifies a set of high-level actions to enhance national preparedness to extreme space weather effects. It highlights the importance of space weather benchmarks, which describe the physical characteristics of extreme events for five phenomena: induced geo-electric fields, ionizing radiation, ionospheric disturbances, solar radio bursts, and upper atmospheric expansion. The strategy also calls for refinement of the Phase 1 Benchmarks released by the National Science and Technology Council in 2018.
Toward this end, NSF and NASA have sponsored a community-led effort to assess the Phase 1 benchmark values and methodologies, identify gaps in data or methods preventing the creation of high-fidelity benchmark values, and suggest research activities to close the gaps. This session provides an opportunity for researchers who are actively engaged in this benchmark refinement effort to discuss their findings and to engage the broader scientific community in the discussion.
Co-Organized:
Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7914 Engineering for hazard mitigation [SPACE WEATHER]
7964 Policy [SPACE WEATHER]
Primary Convener: Tom Colvin, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Convener: Michael Wiltberger, NSF, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison: Tom Colvin, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Space Weather Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios, USA Benchmarks, and National/International Preparedness and Collaborations: The UK Perspective (Invited) (597501)
Mario Mark Bisi, United Kingdom Research and Innovation – Science & Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Mark Gibbs, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom and Michael A Hapgood, UKRI STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Harwell Campus, Didcot, United Kingdom
Next Steps for Induced Geo-Electric Fields Benchmarks (Invited) (604061)
Pete Riley, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, Emanuel Bernabeu, PJM Interconnection, Audubon, PA, United States, Jeffrey J Love, USGS Geomagnetism Program, Denver, CO, United States, Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Adam Schultz, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Alan W P Thomson, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Estimating Extreme Geoelectric Field Values for the Australian Region (623709)
Jeanne Young1, Richard A Marshall1, Léna Dziura2 and L Wang3, (1)Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Space Weather Services, Sydney, Australia, (2)Météo-France, Toulouse, France, (3)Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Next Step Space Weather Benchmarks for Ionospheric Disturbances (631293)
Susan Skone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Keith M Groves, Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Ethan S Miller, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States and Roger H Varney, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Next Steps in Establishing Benchmarks for Extreme Space Weather (Invited) (508378)
Geoffrey D Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Christina Cohen, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Dale E Gary, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, David Jackson, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Pete Riley, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, Susan Skone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and The Next Steps Space Weather Benchmarks Committee
The Upper Atmosphere Expansion Benchmark Study (Invited) (531667)
Sean Bruinsma, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, David Jackson, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, John T Emmert, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States and Eric K Sutton, University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Next Steps in Determining Space Weather Benchmarks for Ionizing Radiation Hazards (Invited) (566763)
Christina Cohen, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Joe Giacalone, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Timothy B Guild, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA, United States, Delores J Knipp, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Therese Moretto, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Juan V Rodriguez, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Upcoming grand solar minimum induced by double solar dynamo and other solar effects on the Earth (583535)
Valentina V Zharkova, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, Simon Shepherd, University of Bradford, School of Engineering, Bradford, United Kingdom and Elena Popova, National Research University,, Higher School of Economics,, Moscow, Russia
The Solar Radio Burst Benchmarks (585104)
Tim Bastian, Natl Radio Astron Observ, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Gregory D Fleishman, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States, Dale E Gary, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, Jasmina Magdalenic, SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Angelos Vourlidas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Stephen M White, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States
