SH003-0008
Reducing Barriers in Space Weather Research and Operations with Next-Generation Simulation Services at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)
Monday, 7 December 2020
Poster
Maksym Petrenko1, Chinwe C. Didigu1, Mark M. Moussa1, Chiu Wiegand2, Lutz Rastaetter2, Anna Chulaki2, Katherine Garcia-Sage3, Maria M Kuznetsova4, Peter J MacNeice5, Polymnia Manessis6, Anne Michelle M Mendoza2, Tyler Schiewe7, Aleksandre Taktakishvili7, Tina Tsui8, Jia Yue1 and Yihua Zheng4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center,, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Abstract:
Space weather forecasting capabilities are becoming increasingly important to the health of advanced technological infrastructure. The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC, https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov) serves as a key liaison in the US space weather program between the research and operations communities by providing a wide range of tools and capabilities that help to evaluate, compare, exercise, and archive the results of simulations of a growing list of space weather models. With its unique toolset, CCMC supports space weather research and model development that advances our understanding of space weather phenomena and improves forecasting skill, while also facilitating development of space weather applications and deployment of operational capabilities.
Guided by experience from over 20 years of providing simulation services, feedback from its research, operational and educational users world-wide, and recommendations from CCMC Advisory Group and Programmatic Review Panel, the CCMC has begun work on the next generation system for its simulation services and model output archives. The new system has been envisioned to employ state-of-the-art technologies and standards to provide a user-oriented experience while improving ease of access, transparency, interoperability with partner systems, and enhancing reliability by incorporating advanced automation for performance monitoring and intelligent failover.
This presentation will give an overview of the current CCMC ecosystem and discuss updates to some of the key services of the system, including Runs-on-Request, Instant Runs, and Continuous Runs. It will also describe how a planned expansion and standardization of data archival activities will enhance the role of CCMC as a world-class provider of heliophysics information for the research and analysis of space weather. It is hoped that this evolution of the services can further reduce the barriers and burdens on researchers, forecasters and decision makers who rely on CCMC for their daily research and operations.
