STC: Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling

该奖项将建立一个综合空间气象建模中心（CISM）。CISM的总体目标是开发先进的计算机模型，以确定和预测从太阳表面到地球表面的空间天气。“空间天气”是一个迅速进入通用词汇的术语。它描述了太阳通过包括太阳风、磁层和高层大气在内的中间空间的作用方式，对空间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将致力于建立一个全面的、基于物理的数值模型，描述从太阳到地球的环境，并预测空间风暴的到达时间、强度和持续时间。该中心将实现三个相辅相成的目标：（1）它将开展全新的科学研究，增进我们对复杂但密切相关的日地系统的了解;（2）与其他团体合作，将其研究成果转化为可供民用和军用空间气象预报员使用的强大和实用的预报工具; 3）它将教育下一代空间科学家--利用空间气象的能力，通过模型和可视化工具捕捉想象力。国际空间气象学委员会的主要知识转让目标是将研究成果和模型转化为可供空间气象预报员和私营企业使用的实用有力的预报工具。该中心最重要的遗产将是提高应对潜在空间天气危害的能力，从而保护国家越来越容易受到空间环境条件影响的技术系统。

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.