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All Models Are Wrong but Some Are Useful: A Famous Quote from George Box—Does This Apply to Modeling the Space Environment? II Posters

Tuesday, 8 December 2020: 04:00-20:59
Poster
Primary Convener:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Convener:  Anthony J Mannucci, NASA, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Chairs:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Anthony J Mannucci, NASA, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Cheryl Y Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
A Cloud-based Testbed environment to help make models more “useful” (756733)
Greg Lucas1, Christopher K Pankratz2, James Craft2, Jenny Knuth3 and Thomas E Berger4,5, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
A Comparison of GLobal airglOW (GLOW) and MCNP-based Models Applied to the Coupled Photon-Electron Transport and Photo-Electron Heating of Ambient Electrons at Swarm Altitudes. (752082)
Alexei Kouznetsov, Levan Lomidze, Johnathan K Burchill and David J Knudsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
A Perspective of Ionosphere-Thermosphere Modeling from the Current NOAA/SWPC Operational Model (710392)
Tzu-Wei Fang, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, George H Millward, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Adam Kubaryk, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States; CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder; Space Weather Prediction Center, NCEP, NOAA, Boulder, MD, United States, Raffaele Montuoro, NOAA, ESRL/GSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Zhuxiao Li, NOAA, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States and Naomi Maruyama, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Applications of machine learning for inner magnetospheric space weather prediction (676125)
Jacob Bortnik1, Xiangning Chu1, Donglai Ma1, Qianli Ma2, Seth G Claudepierre3, Colin Wilkins4 and Enrico Camporeale5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)UCLA, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)The Aerospace Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States, (4)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Combining Eigenanalysis with Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Ionospheric Storm Drivers in Large Space Weather Data Sets (755554)
David Allen Falconer1, Linda Habash Krause2 and Craig D Fry2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Development and Evaluation of space weather forecast models in NICT (707719)
Mamoru Ishii1, Naoto Nishizuka2, Yuki Kubo2, Daikou Shiota2, Hidekatsu Jin1, Aoi Nakamizo3, Mitsue Den2, Yasubumi Kubota1, Hiroyuki Shinagawa1, Chihiro Tao1, Michi Nishioka3, Kornyanat Hozumi4, Kaori Sakaguchi1 and Shinji Saito5, (1)NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (2)National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan, (4)NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Space Environment Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, (5)National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Space Environment Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
 
Handling the complexity of the space weather system: Novel approaches through particle precipitation and ion outflow (706394)
Ryan Michael McGranaghan, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States, Téo Bloch, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Mathew James Owens, Uinversity of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Jack Ziegler, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, Spencer Hatch, University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, Kristina A Lynch, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Jesper W Gjerloev, Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Susan Skone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Pete Riley, Predictive Science, Inc., San Diego, CA, United States
 
High-Latitude Electrodynamics During Magnetic Storms (665749)
Cheryl Y Huang1, Russell Landry1, Yanshi Huang2 and Yi-Jiun Su3, (1)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
 
How wrong is the model and how can it still be useful? (695038)
Astrid I Maute, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, Brian Joseph Harding, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Roderick A Heelis, University Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, Jeffrey M M Forbes, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Thomas J Immel, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States and ICON science team
 
Investigation of Ionospheric Conductance and Joule Heating during Geomagnetic Storms using DMSP (666780)
Russell Landry1, Vince Eccles2, Cheryl Y Huang1 and Yi-Jiun Su3, (1)Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Space Dynamics Laboratory, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
 
Modelling the time-dependent ionospheric electric field (732391)
Adrian Grocott and Maria-Theresia Walach, Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom
 
Perspectives of using physics-based models for forecasting of total electron content of the ionosphere (673635)
Olga P Verkhoglyadova1, Xing Meng2, Anthony J Mannucci2, Ja-Soon Shim3 and Ryan Michael McGranaghan4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States
 
Resolving Long-Standing E-Region Data/Model Discrepancies (732645)
Emmaris Soto, Computational Physics Inc. Springfield, Springfield, VA, United States, J. Scott Evans, Computational Physics, Inc., Springfield, VA, United States, Robert Meier, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States and Brendan M McLaughlin, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
 
Substorm dynamics in MHD: Statistical validation tests and paths for improvement (730194)
John David Haiducek1, Daniel T Welling2, Steven Morley3, Agnit Mukhopadhyay4, Xiangning Chu5, Joseph Helmboldt1, Joseph D Huba6 and Natalia Y Ganushkina4, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Syntek Technologies, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
Thermosphere Ionosphere Data Assimilation (TIDA) (767159)
Mihail Codrescu, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Stefan Mihail Codrescu, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; Vector Space LLC, Boulder, CO, United States and Mariangel Fedrizzi, NOAA/SWPC-Univ. Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Total Electron Content specification of ionospheric anomalies using the coupled IDA4D/SAMI3 (674530)
Alex Chartier, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Using Ionospheric Models for Extreme Phenomena (694597)
Sophia Gloria Gloria Schwalbe, Air Force Institute of Technology, Bellbrook, OH, United States, Robert Dean Loper Jr, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dept of Engineering Physics, Wpafb, OH, United States, Omar Nava, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, United States, Charlton David Lewis, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, United States and Daniel J Emmons II, Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
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