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4 Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges for Decadal Survey Applications Goals and Recommendations
4 Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges for Decadal Survey Applications Goals and Recommendations
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4.2 RECHARTER THE NATIONAL SPACE WEATHER PROGRAM The Applications Recommendation 1 from the decadal survey reads as follows: A1.0 Recharter the National Space Weather Program As part of a plan to develop and coordinate a comprehensive program in space weather and climatology the survey committee recommends that the National Space Weather Program be 91
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Two years after publication of decadal survey, both the 2015 National Space Weather Strategy (NSWS)
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NOAA, NASA, and NSF have a good understanding of the transition protocol as demonstrated in the SWxSA strategy documents and Space Weather Benchmark Reports.1 Successful forecasting depends on a deep understanding of the multitude of connections and couplings between phenomena and domains. A clear plan to gain this deep understanding -- as was described in the 2013 decadal survey -- is missing.
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NASA and NSF, in coordination with their research communities, and in consultation with NOAA, are best positioned to develop a scientific gap analysis to address the sci entific and observational challenges that currently hamper the formulation of reliable space weather forecasts for timescales from several hours to a few days. The analysis of critical gaps in our scientific understanding, modeling abilities, and essential observables is crucial as the foundation for the development of implementation plans that, in turn, form the basis for the required budget.
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A2.5 Distinct funding lines for basic space physics research and for space weather specification and forecasting should be developed and maintained. 4.3.1 Progress on Decadal Survey Applications Recommendation A2.1: Continuous Solar Wind Observations from L1 Forecasting of space weather relies on observational input of conditions on the Sun, in the inner heliosphere, and near Earth.
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spacecraft has provided solar wind measurements at L1 since 1997, and its mission has been extended well past its design life to support space weather operations. Concerns about ACE's advancing age precipitated earlier coordinated agency discussions and actions leading to the refurbishment of plasma and field instrumentation available from the unlaunched Triana spacecraft.2 Following the decadal survey, these updated instruments were launched on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)
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The selection of the PUNCH6 project as a NASA Small Explorer to be launched around 2022 will provide additional coronagraph observations, but as a research mission rather than a dedicated space weather monitoring facility.7 Finding 4.3: Currently, the combination of ACE and DISCOVR in situ particle and field measurements at L1, the GOES solar EUV imager and solar EUV and X-ray irradiance sensors at GEO, the ground based GONG network for solar magnetograms, and the SOHO LASCO coronagraph at L1 provide the primary set of space weather monitoring assets, with support from SDO solar observations at GEO and STEREO solar and in situ observations in an Earth trailing/leading orbit. NOAA has plans to continue in situ solar wind observations at L1, to establish new coronagraph observations at L1 and at GEO, and to continue their support of solar magnetograms in the GONG network.
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4.3.4 Progress on Applications Recommendations A2.4: Establish a SWx Research Program at NOAA for R2O and A2.5: Develop Distinct Programs for Space Physics Research and Space Weather Specifications and Forecasting The decadal survey provided a concise general vision for the growth of space weather activities. Most of their guidance was directed at NASA, with only limited treatment regarding the roles of NSF and NOAA, and passing mention of the Department of Defense (DoD)
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More recently, the Next Step Benchmarks study, an NSF- and NASA-funded task, was formed to re-evaluate the Phase 1 benchmarks with respect to their application to extreme space weather events. The final output of the Next Step Benchmarks task will be a public document that provides recommendations for improving benchmarks specifically for extreme space weather events.10 To address the benchmark studies and to properly support the National Space Weather program needs, the required space weather data and associated observational platforms on the ground and in space, should be identified.
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• This plan, along with an associated budget, should be available as input to the next decadal survey in solar and space physics to further develop how the research programs at the different agencies can best work together to obtain the required space weather measurements and models. • The agencies involved should have ongoing activity to guarantee a succession plan for continued acquisition of critical space weather diagnostics.
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-- .2019. National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan.
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