Cyber-infrastructure for Solar Physics

Session ID#: 122802

Session Description:
The cyber-infrastructure for solar physics has grown exponentially in the last two decades in response to the exponential increase in solar data, led by SDO and soon DKIST. Data are made e-accessible through many portals, including the Virtual Solar Observatory, the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK), databases outside the US, and mission and institutional archives worldwide. Metadata are made available from many repositories (e.g. HEK, Harvard Dataverse, SEPServer). These metadata are often produced from automated feature recognition codes. Data analysis and simulation codes are usually made available from repositories such as GitHub and NASA CCMC.

Taking advantage of the hybrid nature of the 2021 AGU fall meeting we propose to take inventory of the elements of cyber-infrastructure worldwide and their needs, to identify opportunities for coordination and collaboration, and to discuss how the FAIR aspects (Finding-Accessibility-Interoperability-Reusability) for both datasets and analysis software could be enhanced.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AAS: American Astronomical Society -
  • EGU: European Geosciences Union -
  • JpGU: Japan Geoscience Union -
Index Terms:

1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]


Primary Convener:  Petrus C Martens, Georgia State University, Physics and Astronomy, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Veronique Delouille, Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium, Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Shinsuke Imada, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Petrus C Martens, Georgia State University, Physics and Astronomy, Atlanta, GA, United States