Workshop: Roadmap for Reliable Ensemble Forecasting of the Sun-Earth System; NJIT, March, 2018

这个为期一年的项目旨在让来自美国的太阳数据提供商、太阳现象专家模型师和计算机科学家参加将于2018年3月在新泽西理工学院举行的太阳-地球系统可靠集合预测路线图研讨会。这个专门的研讨会旨在制定一个研究路线图，目标是将太阳观测和建模与新时代的计算机研究紧密结合起来，从海量数据中发现新的基础知识，同时用新的研究挑战刺激计算机科学，这一巨大的科学挑战将是目标。讲习班将提供太阳能和计算机科学界的共识反馈，这将有助于确定科学优先事项和研究方向，并促进这两个领域未来的跨学科合作。讲习班期间确定的太阳数据挑战和先进的计算机科学数据处理和分析方法将推动旨在实施新型网络基础设施解决方案和促进跨学科研究的后续活动。讲习班的目的是促进发现和理解，同时促进教育和跨学科环境中的协作工作，这将直接影响参与者的职业生涯。这类活动将促进将创新的数据分析、数据可视化、数据驱动的建模和数据分析转移到可能受益于类似框架和解决问题方法的其他研究领域。讲习班涵盖了既基本又及时的科学专题：它们不仅涉及发现新知识的基本目标，而且还涉及实际应用这种知识以减轻太阳活动对近地空间环境的影响。此外，讲习班还直接涉及国家空间气象行动计划的目标5，即“通过增进了解和预报改善空间气象服务”，其目的是为可靠的日地系统综合预报制定路线图。路线图将在讲习班网站上公开提供。

This 1-year project is to enable the participation of solar data providers, expert modelers of solar phenomena, and computer scientists from the US at the Roadmap for Reliable Ensemble Forecasting of the Sun-Earth System workshop, which will be held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in March of 2018. This dedicated workshop is intended to lay down a research roadmap that will target the great science challenge of tightly coupling the solar observations and modeling with new-age computer research to discover new fundamental knowledge from big volumes of data, while stimulating computer science with new research challenges. The workshop will provide consensus feedback from the solar and computer science communities, which will help establish scientific priorities and research directions, and also promote future transdisciplinary collaborations between both fields.The solar data challenges and cutting-age computer science approaches to data processing and analysis identified during this workshop will drive subsequent activities aiming to implement novel cyberinfrastructure solutions and stimulate transdisciplinary research. The workshop is aimed at advancing discovery and understanding, while promoting education and collaborative work in transdisciplinary environments, which will directly impact the participants' careers. Such activities will facilitate the transfer of innovative data analysis, data visualization, data driven modeling, and data analytics to other fields of research that may benefit from similar frameworks and approaches to problems solving. The workshop covers scientific topics that are both fundamental and timely: they address not only the basic goal of discovering new knowledge, but also the practical application of that knowledge to mitigate impacts of solar activity on the near-Earth space environment.  Furthermore, it directly addresses Goal 5 of National Space Weather Action Plan, namely "improve space-weather services through advancing understanding and forecasting," by aiming to develop a roadmap for reliable ensemble forecasting of the Sun-Earth system. The roadmap will be made publicly available online on the workshop website.