Space Radiation and Plasma Effects on Satellites and Aviation: Quantities and Metrics for Tracking Performance of Space Weather Environment Models

The Community Coordinated Modeling Center has been leading communitywide space science and space weather model validation projects for many years. These efforts have been broadened and extended via the newly launched International Forum for Space Weather Modeling Capabilities Assessment (https://ccm...

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Published in:Space weather 2019-10, Vol.17 (10), p.1384-1403
Main Authors: Zheng, Yihua, Ganushkina, Natalia Yu, Jiggens, Pier, Jun, Insoo, Meier, Matthias, Minow, Joseph I., O'Brien, T. Paul, Pitchford, Dave, Shprits, Yuri, Tobiska, W. Kent, Xapsos, Michael A., Guild, Timothy B., Mazur, Joseph E., Kuznetsova, Maria M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerospace environments
Aviation
Charging
Communities
Cosmic rays
Electrons
Energetic particles
Engineering
Environment models
Environmental effects
Extraterrestrial radiation
Forecasting
Galactic cosmic rays
Impacts on Technological Systems
Informatics
Magnetospheric Physics
Monitoring, Forecasting, Prediction
Natural Hazards
Particle physics
Plasma
Policy
Policy Sciences
Radiation
Radiation effects
radiation effects at aviation altitudes
Review
Satellite tracking
Satellites
single‐event effects
Solar energetic particles
space radiation and plasma effects on space assets
Space Radiation Environment
Space science
Space Sciences (General)
Space Weather
Space Weather Capabilities Assessment
space weather environment models
surface and internal charging
validation and metrics
Weather
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Summary:The Community Coordinated Modeling Center has been leading communitywide space science and space weather model validation projects for many years. These efforts have been broadened and extended via the newly launched International Forum for Space Weather Modeling Capabilities Assessment (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/). Its objective is to track space weather models' progress and performance over time, a capability that is critically needed in space weather operations and different user communities in general. The Space Radiation and Plasma Effects Working Team of the afore mentioned International Forum works on one of the many focused evaluation topics and deals with five different subtopics (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/topics/radiationall.php) and varieties of particle populations: Surface Charging from tens of eV to 50keV electrons and internal charging due to energetic electrons from hundreds keV to several MeVs. Single event effects from solar energetic particles and galactic cosmic rays (several MeV to TeV), total dose due to accumulation of doses from electrons (>100 keV) and protons (>1 MeV) in a broad energy range, and radiation effects from solar energetic particles and galactic cosmic rays at aviation altitudes. A unique aspect of the Space Radiation and Plasma Effects focus area is that it bridges the space environments, engineering, and user communities. The intent of the paper is to provide an overview of the current status and to suggest a guide for how to best validate space environment models for operational/engineering use, which includes selection of essential space environment and effect quantities and appropriate metrics.
ISSN:1539-4956
1542-7390
1539-4964
1542-7390
DOI:10.1029/2018sw002042