Unifying the Validation of Ambient Solar Wind Models
Abstract
Progress in space weather research and awareness needs community-wide strategies and procedures to evaluate our modeling assets. Here we present the activities of the Ambient Solar Wind Validation Team embedded in the COSPAR ISWAT initiative. We aim to bridge the gap between model developers and end-users to provide the community with an assessment of the state-of-the-art in solar wind forecasting. To this end, we develop an open online platform for validating solar wind models by comparing their solutions with in situ spacecraft measurements. The online platform will allow the space weather community to test the quality of state-of-the-art solar wind models with unified metrics providing an unbiased assessment of progress over time. In this study, we propose a metadata architecture and recommend community-wide forecasting goals and validation metrics. We conclude with a status update of the online platform and outline future perspectives.
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@article{arxiv.2201.13447,
title = {Unifying the Validation of Ambient Solar Wind Models},
author = {Martin A. Reiss and Karin Muglach and Richard Mullinix and Maria M. Kuznetsova and Chiu Wiegand and Manuela Temmer and Charles N. Arge and Sergio Dasso and Shing F. Fung and Jose Juan Gonzalez Aviles and Siegfried Gonzi and Lan Jian and Peter MacNeice and Christian Möstl and Mathew Owens and Barbara Perri and Rui F. Pinto and Lutz Rastätter and Pete Riley and Evangelia Samara and ISWAT H1-01 Team Members},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13447},
year = {2022}
}