HR: 14:55h
AN: SA43B-06    [Abstracts]
TI: Realtime magnetosphere simulation at CCMC
AU: Narock, A
EM: ayris.a.narock@nasa.gov
AF: Community-Coordinated Modeling Center, Code 696, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: * Rastaetter, L
EM: lr@waipio.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Community-Coordinated Modeling Center, Code 696, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Kuznetsova, M
EM: masha@elbrus.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Community-Coordinated Modeling Center, Code 696, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hesse, M
EM: Michael.Hesse@nasa.gov
AF: Community-Coordinated Modeling Center, Code 696, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: The 24/7 realtime simulations running at the CCMC have been implemented three years ago and have seen many challenges during the development. Improvements during the years include the addition of data postprocessing steps such as the computation of the polar cap boundary, the current conditions at various satellite positions, and the provision of overwiev plots of recent ionospheric potentials. A major milestone was the addition of the Fok ring current model using the MHD results to the simulation. This paper describes the challenges encountered during the setup of the real time run system and outlines the benefits to operational space weather forecasting today and in the future.
DE: 7855 Spacecraft sheaths, wakes, charging
DE: 2447 Modeling and forecasting
DE: 2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions
DE: 2753 Numerical modeling
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting