STC: Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling

STC：综合空间天气模拟中心

• 批准号: 0120950
• 负责人: W. Jeffrey Hughes
• 金额: $ 2440.76万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0120950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STC; Center; Integrated; Space; Weather

This award will establish a Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM). The overall goal of CISM is to develop advanced computer models to specify and predict space weather from the surface of the sun to the surface of Earth. "Space Weather" is a term rapidly entering the common lexicon. It describes the ways in which the Sun, acting through the intervening space encompassing the solar wind, the magnetosphere, and the upper atmosphere, adversely affects the performance and reliability of space borne and ground based technological systems, or can endanger human life or health. CISM will focus on building a comprehensive, physics-based, numerical model that describes the environment from the Sun to the Earth, and can predict arrival time, intensity and duration of space storms. The Center will achieve three complementary goals: 1) it will do fundamentally new science, increasing our understanding of the complex, but closely coupled Sun-Earth system; 2) in partnership with other groups, it will convert the results of its research into robust and operationally useful forecasting tools to be used by both civilian and military space weather forecasters; and 3) it will educate the next generation of space scientists - taking advantage of the ability of space weather to capture imaginations through models and visualization tools. The principal knowledge transfer goal of CISM is to convert research results and models into robust operationally useful forecasting tools to be used by space weather forecasters and private industry. The most important legacy of the center will be improvements in the ability to respond to potential space weather hazards, thus protecting the nation's technological systems that are increasingly susceptible to conditions in the space environment.

该合同将建立一个综合空间天气模拟中心（CISM）。CISM的总体目标是发展先进的计算机模型，以指定和预测从太阳表面到地球表面的空间天气。“太空天气”是一个迅速进入普通词汇的术语。它描述了太阳如何通过包括太阳风、磁层和高层大气在内的介入空间发挥作用，对空间载和地面技术系统的性能和可靠性产生不利影响，或可能危及人类生命或健康。CISM将专注于建立一个全面的、基于物理的数值模型，描述从太阳到地球的环境，并可以预测太空风暴的到达时间、强度和持续时间。该中心将实现三个互补的目标：1)它将从根本上开创新的科学，增加我们对复杂但紧密耦合的太阳-地球系统的理解；2)与其他小组合作，将其研究成果转化为可靠和实用的预测工具，供民用和军用空间天气预报员使用；3)它将教育下一代空间科学家——利用空间天气的能力，通过模型和可视化工具捕捉想象力。CISM的主要知识转移目标是将研究成果和模型转化为可靠、实用的预报工具，供空间天气预报员和私营企业使用。该中心最重要的遗产将是提高对潜在空间天气危害的响应能力，从而保护越来越容易受到空间环境条件影响的国家技术系统。