Conferences

SEPVAL 2023

Please see details about the upcoming SEPVAL conference, which will be a dedicated effort on this topic. One will be held in San Antonio, TX from September 5 - 7, 2023 and the second in Toulouse, France prior to ESWW on November 18 & 19, 2023. Visit the SEPVAL website.

European Space Weather Week October 25 - 29, 2021

Talks related to this validation effort are presented in the following sessions and TDMs:

Monday Oct. 25, session cd01 Advances in Space Weather Forecasting and in assessment of cosmical radiation impact on astronauts during space missions, 14:30 - 15:45 BST

Wednesday Oct. 27, TDM t17, Solar Energetic Particle Model Validation, 11:15 - 12:30 BST

• Advertising slide
• SEP Scoreboard and SEP models in Ops (Phil Quinn), Slides, SEP Scoreboard video
• Overview of SEP model validation community effort (Katie Whitman), Slides
• Validation of ASPECS time profile (Mark Dierckxsens), Slides
• SWPC SEP proton forecast verification (Hazel Bain), Contact Hazel for slides

Thursday Oct. 28, session cd04, Community effort towards unifying validation and verification activities, 13:45 - 15:00 BST

• Community Effort towards Solar Energetic Particle Model Validation Motivated by Space Radiation Operations (poster, K. Whitman)

Thursday Oct. 28, session cd05, Research and Operations Interoperability, 15:30 - 16:30 BST

Thursday Oct. 28, TDM t03, Towards coordinated validation activities within the space weather community, 16:45 - 17:45 BST

ISWAT Virtual Conference Sep 27 - Oct 1, 2021

H3-01 Section SEP Model Validation held two sessions on Sep 27 & 28 to update on progress of the validation framework, discuss model statuses, metrics and validation approaches, and next steps. These sessions were highly successful, with 13 SEP models providing predictions of 1 or more of the challenge SEP events to build and test the validation framework. Graham Barnes (NWRA) gave an excellent talk on selecting appropriate metrics and approaches to validation.

Video Recordings:

• Sep 27: Validation framework update and modeler presentations (video [MP4], chat [TXT])
• Sep 28: Metrics talk and data set discussion (video [MP4], chat [TXT])

Session Agenda

• Update on validation framework progress (Katie Whitman)
  • View an example validation report for UMASEP-10 produced for the ISWAT session (reports were produced for all participating models)
• Validation Methods: Some Lessons Learned from Solar Flare Forecasting (Graham Barnes)
• NOAA SWPC Proton Forecast Performance and Skill (Hazel Bain)
• iPATH presentation on suprathermal seed spectra and results for challenge (Junxiang Hu)
• SEPMOD multipoint study simulating CMEs and SEPs within the whole inner heliosphere (Erika Palmiero)
• REleASE advance warning times for Mars round trip travel from Earth-Sun and Mars-Sun L1 Lagrange points (Arik Posner)
• The Solar Radiation Hemisphere: Filling a critical gap for protons, UMASEP, ESPERTA, pps, and REleASE (Arik Posner)
• Trouble with the sensor. Why there is a need for accurate energetic proton measurements for model validation. (Arik Posner) Slides Paper
• Work to address unphysical SEP event onsets in GOES measurements(Piers Jiggens)

Roadmap Papers: ISWAT is encouraging all sections to write papers to support the ISWAT-COSPAR Heliophysics Roadmap. Section H3-01 will prepare two papers:

• Paper summarizing SEP models currently developed in the research community
  (Outline)
• Paper summarizing previous validation of SEP models as reported in the literature (current state-of-the-art) + overview of this ongoing community SEP model validation effort (Outline)
• General ISWAT roadmap papers page

COSPAR 2021 Virtual Conference

Katie Whitman's COSPAR 2021 talk and SEP model use in human exploration operations and description of validation effort: https://youtu.be/f29u25gtpiI