Topical Discussion Meeting - Scoreboard for the Near-Earth Spacecraft Charging Environment: Initial Discussion and Planning

Yihua Zheng (NASA/GSFC); T. Paul O'Brien (Aerospace); Yuri Shprits (GFZ/UCLA); Richard Horne (BAS); Natasha Yu. Ganushkina (Univ. of Michigan/FMI)
Tuesday 19/11, 14:00-15:15

In order to facilitate transitioning space environment/space science models into operations, it is crucial to test and validate models for historical and realtime/forecasting modes. CCMC has initiated several realtime/forecasting method validation efforts, including the CME arrival time scoreboard (running since 2013), flare scoreboard, SEP (solar energetic particle) scoreboard, and others (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/scoreboards.php). This Topic Discussion Meeting calls for communities' participation in starting a scoreboard for forecasting the near-Earth charging (surface and internal) environment. We will leverage discussion results from the ‘Space Radiation and Plasma Effects’ focus team from the “International Forum for Space Weather Modeling Capabilities Assessment” (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/) where two sets of physical quantities have been identified for assessing model performance, one from an engineering perspective and the other from a science perspective, as well as the experience from the SPACESTORM/SPACECAST (http://risk.spacestorm.eu/) and H2020 PROGRESS (https://ssg.group.shef.ac.uk/progress2/html/index.phtml) projects. Visualization/display of realtime quantities, measurements/data needed, which orbit(s) (e.g.,GEO, MEO) to start, choice of metrics, and other items will be discussed.