Heliophysics Modeling & Simulation Project (HMS)

Living With a Star Heliophysics Science Technical Interchange Meeting 2014

Final Program and Presentations
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
08:00am - 09:00am Registration
09:00am - 09:10am Opening - Pete Worden
09:10am – 09:25am LWS Overview and Objectives – Madhulika “Lika” Guhathakurta
09:25am – 09:40am Working group TIM logistics
Session 1: Space Missions and Ground-Based Observatories - Pete Worden
09:40am – 10:00am IRIS – Alan Title
10:00am – 10:20am SDO – Karel Shrijver
10:20am – 10:40am Large Solar Telescopes – Alexander Kosovichev
10:40am – 11:00am Coffee break
Session 2: Magnetic Flux Emergence and Transport - Nagi Mansour (PDF-154KB)
11:00am – 11:30am Helioseismic Study on Emerging Active Regions and Large-Scale Flows - Junwei Zhao & Alexander Kosovichev (PDF-8MB)
11:30am – 12:00pm Modeling the Solar Dynamo and Emerging Flux and Integration into the SWMF - Yuhong Fan (PDF-21MB)
12:00am – 12:30am Air Force Data Assimilation Photospheric Flux Transport (ADAPT) Model Effort for the Integrated Global‐Sun Model - Nick Arge (PDF-5MB)
12:30pm - 02:00pm Lunch break
Session 3: Coronal Global Evolutionary Models - George Fisher
02:00pm - 02:30pm Overview of Coronal Global Evolutionary Models - George Fisher (PDF-9MB)
02:30pm - 03:00pm MHD Modeling of the Convection Zone-to-Corona System and Collaborations Between CGEM and Other Strategic Capability Projects - Bill Abbett (PDF-22MB)
03:00pm - 03:30pm The Use of Flux Transport Models in CGEM and Collaborations with Other Related Projects - Marc DeRosa (PDF-46MB)
03:30pm – 04:00pm Coffee break
Session 4: Breakout Sessions
04:00pm – 05:30pm TBD by Scientific Organizing Committee
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Session 5: A Modular Capability for Community Modeling of Flares, CMEs and Their Interplanetary Impacts - Spiro Antiochos
09:00am – 09:30am Understanding the Physical Process Underlying Solar Eruptions - Spiro Antiochos & Rick DeVore (PDF-9MB)
09:30am – 09:50am Modeling the Global-Kinetic Coupling - Gabor Toth (PDF-13MB)
09:50am – 10:10am Modeling the Background Environment of CMEs/Flares - Bart van der Holst (PDF-20MB)
10:10am – 10:30am Modeling Self-Consistent Eruptions - Chip Manchester (PDF-11MB)
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee break
Session 6: Integrated Real-Time Modeling System for Heliospheric Space Weather Forecasting - Dusan Odstrcil
11:00am – 11:30am Helio Weather – Modeling of the Evolving Background Solar Wind - Dusan Odstrcil
11:30am – 12:00pm Helio Weather – Detection of the Interplanetary Shock Parameters - Dusan Odstrcil
12:00pm – 12:30pm Helio Weather – Synthetic White-Light Imaging of Heliospheric Disturbances - Dusan Odstrcil
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch break
Session 7: Corona-Solar Wind Energetic Particle Acceleration - Nathan Schwadron
2:00pm - 2:30pm Energetic Particles and Impacts Throughout the Heliosphere - Harlan Spence (PDF-58MB)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Modeling and Related Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) - Tibor Torok (PDF-18MB)
3:00pm - 3:30pm Current Theoretical Understanding of Solar Energetic Particles - Joe Giacalone (PDF-2MB)
3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee break
Session 8: Breakout Sessions
4:00pm – 5:30pm TBD by Scientific Organizing Committee
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Session 9: MHD and Kinetic Effects in Magnetosphere Models - Amitava Bhattacharjee
09:00am – 09:10am Setup
09:10am – 09:40am Progress Towards the Integration of Kinetic Effects into Global Magnetosphere Models - Amitava Bhattacharjee (PDF-6MB)
09:40am – 10:10am A Next-Generation OpenGGCM - Kai Germaschewski (PDF-11MB)
10:10am – 10:40am Assessment of the Importance of Electron and Ion Kinetic Effects in Collisionless Plasmas - Homa Karimabadi (PDF-21MB)
10:40am – 11:00am Coffee break
Session 10: Medium Range Thermosphere Ionosphere Storm Forecasts - Anthony Mannucci
11:00am – 11:40am Medium Range Thermosphere-Ionosphere Forecasts - Anthony Mannucci, Xing Meng & Olga Verkhoglyadova (PDF-25MB)
11:40am – 11:50am Forecasts of High Speed Solar Wind Streams - Chip Manchester (PDF-5MB)
11:50pm - 12:05pm Statistical Characterization of Model Forecast and Uncertainties - Chunming Wang (PDF-2MB)
12:05pm - 12:30pm Prediction of Ionospheric Activity from the AL Index Time Series Using the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter - Erin Lynch (PDF-9MB)
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch break
Session 11: A First-Principles-Based Data Assimilation System for the Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Electrodynamics - Robert Schunk
2:00pm - 2:30pm Overview and status of the “Multimodel Ensemble Prediction System (MEPS)” Collaboration Program – Robert Schunk (PDF-23MB)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Effect of Different Data Distributions on MEPS Ionospheric Reconstructions – Ludger Scherliess
3:00pm - 3:30pm Effect of Different Data Assimilation Techniques on MEPS Ionospheric Reconstructions – Xiaoqing Pi
3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee break
Session 12: General Discussion, Collaborations, and Future Goals
4:00pm – 5:30pm TBD by Scientific Organizing Committee

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