NSF Science Support

Overview

CCMC is an NSF facility dedicated to NSF science support and transition of research models to operational capabilities.

Facilitating community coordination of CCMC activities are critical for the CCMC mission. Biennial CCMC community workshops sponsored by NSF are designed as opportunities for an in-depth exchange of experiences, opinions, and needs between model developers, science and operational users, educators, agency representatives, and the CCMC staff. CCMC is also guided through NSF GEM, CEDAR, and SHINE workshops.

CCMC has a long history of supporting GEM, CEDAR and SHINE challenge activities and historically proposes GEM-CEDAR challenge sessions. CCMC continues playing an active role in putting forward new challenge areas, such as a Penetration Electric Fields Challenge and a SAPS Challenge.

In order to support multi-point measurements from distributed arrays, CCMC designs an online validation system. This provides the means to effectively take advantage of the enormous trade space offered by expanding NSF cubesat and smallsat technologies. Simulation studies based on ground-truth data from models can also be used to optimize observations from ground-based networks, such as those supported through the NSF DASI (Distributed Arrays of Scientific Instruments) program. Such simulations can guide planning and execution of coordinated measurements involving both ground-based and space-based measurements. The models, data, and simulation tools currently resident and under development at the CCMC will be made widely available for use by the broader science community for science-driven mission planning and formulation of experimental campaign strategies.

Community Workshops and Meetings

• CCMC Community Workshops 2001 - Present
• Open Science in Modeling Workshop 2024
  • Establishing Heliophysics Open Modeling Environment (HOME)
  • Community Survey
  • Workshop Report: A link to a paper will be added pending paper submission (end of December)

SHINE/GEM/CEDAR Challenges

CCMC has a long history of supporting GEM, CEDAR and SHINE challenge activities and historically proposes GEM-CEDAR challenge sessions.

• SHINE/ISWAT/ESWW SEP Model Validation Challenge 2018 - Present
• SHINE Challenge 2011 - 2014
  • Ground Magnetic Perturbation SWPC/GEM Challenge Validation Webapp
• GEM ULF Wave Modeling Challenge 2014 - 2019
• GEM Dayside Kinetics Challenge 2016
• GEM Mid-Tail Modeling Challenge 2014 - 2016
• GEM Magnetopause Challenge 2008, 2015
• GEM Global Magnetosphere Metrics Challenge 2008 - 2010
• GEM Baseline Model Comparison Challenge 2009
• CEDAR GRAND Challenge SAPS Focus Study 2016 - 2017
• CEDAR Electrodynamics Thermosphere Ionosphere (CETI) Challenge 2009 - 2014
• CEDAR GRAND Challenge Problems Related to Ionospheric Models and Observations (2011 - 2014)
• GEM-CEDAR Modeling Challenge (2014 - 2017)
• GEM-CEDAR Ionospheric Conductance Challenge 2016