Forum and Working Team Goals
International Forum for Space Weather Capabilities Assessment
Summary of Goals:
(1) To define metrics to assess the current state of space weather modeling capabilities from the perspective of:
○ end-users
○ science for space weather
(2) Develop a process to capture science progress in first principles models that feed into operations.
This international community-wide forum is brings together space environment experts, model and application developers, data providers, forecasters and end-users of space weather products and services to
- establish internationally recognized metrics and benchmarks that are meaningful and informative to end-users, developers, and decision makers;
- evaluate the current state of space environment models, applications and forecasting techniques;
- facilitate communications, understanding and partnerships between forecasters and researchers;
- address challenges in data-model comparison, including data quality and availability, uncertainties and sensitivities to external drivers, internal parameters and assumptions;
- identify a path for evaluation and accelerated incorporation of scientific ideas with potential to improve forecasting into space weather applications;
- quantify and track progress over time and communicate it to end-users and the community;
- facilitate further progress.