CEDAR email: SM002 - Advancing Space Weather Research and Mission Development: OSSEs, OSEs and Related Methods

[Terry Onsager - NOAA Federal]

Dear Editors:

Could you forward this email to the CEDAR email distribution list?

Thank you,

Terry
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Dear Colleagues:

Please consider submitting an abstract to: SM002 - Advancing Space Weather
Research and Mission Development: OSSEs, OSEs and Related Methods. We look
forward to your contributions on improving data utilization for space
weather.

Sincerely,
Dimitrios Vassiliadis
Terry Onsager
Katherine Garcia-Sage
Yuri Shprits

SM002 - Advancing Space Weather Research and Mission Development: OSSEs,
OSEs and Related Methods

The effective utilization of data in space weather models is essential for
advancing our scientific understanding, for developing and validating
specification and forecast models, and for prioritizing future observing
system procurements. In recent years, new powerful numerical simulation
methods that leverage high-resolution observations have been increasingly
used in atmospheric and oceanic research, as well as for space physics. The
most sophisticated of these rely on data assimilation: numerical
simulations are increasingly being applied to conduct Observing System
Experiments (OSEs), which quantify the impact of existing observing systems
on model accuracy, and Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs),
which assess the potential value of a new observing system when actual
observational data are not available. More basic alternatives to OSSEs/OSEs
include sensitivity studies used to measure the response of a model to
perturbations and evaluate the forecast-error growth. All of these methods
are accelerating the integration of in-situ and remote-sensing data in
numerical models and the improvement of boundary conditions. They are also
becoming an important tool in mission planning, since they can be used to
optimize orbital and instrument options that parameterize the synthetic
data used in assimilation. Such studies have been initiated recently for
ionospheric/thermospheric and radiation-belt models. They are also being
developed for other regions of the terrestrial and space environment. We
invite abstracts that discuss the development of OSSEs/OSEs and related
methods in ionospheric/thermospheric, magnetospheric, and heliospheric
systems.

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Terrance Onsager
NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction Center
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO  USA 80305
1-303-497-5713
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*Safeguarding society with actionable space weather information*
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