SH003-0011
Optimizing future observational capabilities: Trade studies for NOAA's Space Weather Program

Monday, 7 December 2020
Poster
Dimitris Vassiliadis1, Joanne Ostroy2, Terrance G Onsager3, Douglas Alan Biesecker4, Victor J Pizzo3, Patricia Mulligan5, Lawrence J Zanetti6, Adam Szabo7, Barbara L Giles7, Mihail Codrescu8, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell9, Shiva Anand10, Richard Ullman11 and Elsayed R Talaat1, (1)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (6)JHU-Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)MITRE Corporation Mclean, Mclean, United States, (11)National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Chevy Chase, MD, United States
Abstract:
In 2020, NOAA initiated planning for a Space Weather Program (SWP) that is currently developed in parallel to the long-standing GEO and LEO programs. SWP capabilities include solar imagery in the visible, UV, and X-ray wavelength ranges as well as solar wind plasma, particle flux, and interplanetary magnetic field measurements. The program will include magnetospheric particle and magnetic-field measurements from geostationary and off-equatorial orbits, and ionospheric/thermospheric imagery and in situ measurements. These objectives form a continuation of the agency’s Program of Record 2025 and include new objectives from studies such as the NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture (NSOSA) and the Space Weather Operations, Research and Mitigation (SWORM) working group reports. Objectives are prioritized based on user needs obtained from the Space Weather Prediction Center and linked to the cost-benefit from future space weather capabilities. The presentation will discuss the trade space of instruments, orbits, and other architectural elements considered at the first stage of the program definition. The presentation will outline the second stage that relies on numerical approaches such as sensitivity analysis and the use of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. The implications for community involvement in optimizing these operations and research capabilities will be discussed.
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