CCMC Mission Statement
The CCMC is a multi-agency partnership to enable, support and perform the research and development for next-generation space science and space weather models.
Model Additions/Updates at the CCMC
- CORHEL V4.2 supports two coronal models (MAS and a new CORHEL implementation of the Wang-Sheeley-Arge method) and two Heliospheric (MAS and ENLIL) and offers six possible model combinations. It works with synoptic magnetograms from six different observatories.
- The new Heliospheric Tomography model developed for Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI), the Air Force/NASA satellite, launched on January 6,2003, is now available. SMEI is a joint project of the University of California San Diego, Boston College, the University of Birmingham (UK), and the Air Force Research Laboratory. SMEI is recording whole sky data on each 100-minute orbit.
The previous version of the Heliospheric Tomography model, available at the CCMC since 2003, incorporated a purely kinematic model with the ground-based interplanetary scintillation (IPS) data provided by Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (STELab), Nagoya University, Japan.
In the new version the tomographic techniques used previously were redeveloped for use with SMEI. SMEI data allows the reconstruction of CMEs and other heliospheric structures such as corotating interaction regions (CIRs).
- GUMICS, a global solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling model (Pekka Janhunen et.al. at the Finnish Meteorological Institute).
CCMC Services
- We provide, to the scientific community, access to modern space research models
- We test and evaluate models
- We support Space Weather forecasters
- We support space science education
Latest Additions to the CCMC Services
- Integrated Space Weather Analysis System is a web-based dissemination system for NASA-relevant space weather information.
- LWS Supported Tools and Methods
- Kameleon software: model output from different models can now be stored uniformly in a common science data format. Users can request the CDF-formatted output for a CCMC run.
- Movies on Request: you can now request to generate a movie, images and ASCII data files for each time step of a model run.
- CCMC Space Weather on Google Earth: CCMC is now providing space weather-related Google Earth overlays.