Presentations at Fall 2002 AGU Special Session
Invited Oral Talks
Planning for the Future: The Decadal Survey as an Expression of Community Data Needs
The State of the Solar-Terrestrial Data Environment
The Roles and Needs of Models in the Future Solar-Terrestrial Data Environment
The Living with a Star Data Environment
Next Steps Toward an Integrated Solar-Terrestrial Data Environment: A Summary View
Community Comments and Discussions
Related Links
15:40h
SH52C-02 INVITED
The State of the Solar Terrestrial Data
Environment
Walker, R J
rwalker@igpp.ucla.edu
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 United States
Walker, R J
rwalker@igpp.ucla.edu
Department of Earth and Space Science, University of California, Los
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 United States
Joy, S P
sjoy@igpp.ucla.edu
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 United States
King, T A
tking@igpp.ucla.edu
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 United States
The data from space missions are national treasures. Many of these data
are irreplaceable. In solar terrestrial physics data from current
missions provide us with state of the art observations with which to
address the complex problems of space plasma physics while data from
older missions help us place current observations in perspective by
providing continuity through time. Data that are prepared so that
outside scientists can readily use them have a better chance of being
useful years from now than data prepared just for the investigation
team. In this talk we will evaluate the state of space physics data
activities from the perspective of scientists who were not involved with
the data collection. We have asked whether the data meet the needs of
scientists today and whether they meet the requirement to provide a long
lasting archive. We have evaluated the data from solar terrestrial
missions against 4 criteria: 1.) Accessibility- is it easy for
scientists to identify and locate the data needed for a given study?
Once the data have been located are they readily available to the
scientific community? Are they available online or on distributable
media? Is needed calibration data readily available? 2.) Documentation-
are the data documented so that knowledgeable scientists who are not
instrument experts can use them? Does the documentation adhere to
recognized standards? Does the documentation explain how the data were
collected, and how they were processed as well as the format of the
data? Is data quality including sources of contamination carefully
documented? 3.) Preservation- is a system in place to assure that the
data are not lost? Are the data archived to long lasting media? Are
there copies of the data? Is there a program to test and refresh media?
4.) Scaleability- are the technologies being used meeting the demands of
today`s users? Are the current data system technologies scaleable to
planned data rates from future missions? How are the data systems
addressing anticipated data demands?
2194 Instruments and techniques
2494 Instruments and techniques
2794 Instruments and techniques
7594 Instruments and techniques
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15:55h
SH52C-03 INVITED
The Right Amount of Glue: Technologies and Standards Relevant to a
Future Solar-Terrestrial Data Environment
Gurman, J B
gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lab. for Astronomy and Solar Physics
Code 682.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
Dimitoglou, G
george@esa.nascom.nasa.gov
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lab. for Astronomy and Solar Physics
Code 682.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
Bogart, R S
rbogart@spd.aas.org
Stanford University, Ctr. for Space Science and Astrophysics, Stanford,
CA 94305-4805 United States
Tian, K Q
ktian@stanfordalumni.org
Stanford University, Ctr. for Space Science and Astrophysics, Stanford,
CA 94305-4805 United States
Hill, F
fhill@noao.edu
National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726-6732
United States
Wampler, S
swampler@noao.edu
National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726-6732
United States
Martens, P C
martens@solar.physics.montana.edu
Montana State University, Physics Dept. P.O. Box 172840, Bozeman, MT
59717-3840 United States
Davey, A
ard@solar.physics.montana.edu
Montana State University, Physics Dept. P.O. Box 172840, Bozeman, MT
59717-3840 United States
In order to meet the challenge of developing a new system science, we
will need to employ technology that enables researchers to access data
from fields with which they are at least initially unfamiliar as well as
from sources they use more regularly. At the same time, the quantity of
data to be obtained by missions such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory
demands ease and simplicity of data access. These competing demands must
in turn fit within severely constrained funding for data analysis in
such projects. \p Based on experience in only a single discipline but
with a diversity of data types and sources, we will give examples of
technology that have made a significant difference in the way people do
science. Similarly, we will show how adoption of a well-dcoumented data
format has made it easier for one community to search, reduce, and
analyze data. We will also describe a community-supported data reduction
and analysis software tree with useful features.\p We will attempt to
generalize the lessons learned in these instances to features the
broader, solar-terrestrial community might find compelling, while
avoiding overdesign of a common data environment.
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/
2194 Instruments and techniques
2494 Instruments and techniques
2794 Instruments and techniques
7594 Instruments and techniques
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16:10h
SH52C-04 INVITED
The Roles and Needs of Models in the Future Solar-Terrestrial Data
Environment
Goodrich, C C
ccg@bu.edu
Department of Astronomy, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Ave,
Boston, MA 02215 United States
Lyon, J
lyon@tinman.dartmouth.edu
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, 6127 Wilder Lab
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 United States
Wiltberger, M
wiltbemj@tinman.dartmouth.edu
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, 6127 Wilder Lab
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 United States
We have recently embarked on two projects to model the Solar
Terrestrial environment through linking the regional codes together. We
discuss here, from the perspective of our projects, the characteristics
of the individual codes. These are well known and respected in the SPA
community: the SAIC corona code, the NCAR solar wind code, the LFM
magnetosphere code, the Rice RCM, and NCAR ITM code (TING). We further
discuss the issues important for coupling of these codes, and explore
briefly the methods from the computational and computer sciences that
may help address them.
2199 General or miscellaneous
2447 Modeling and forecasting
2722 Forecasting
7509 Corona
7843 Numerical simulation studies
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16:25h
SH52C-05 INVITED
The Living with a Star Data
Environment
Kucera, T A
terry.kucera@gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA/ GSFC, Code 682 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
Living with a Star (LWS) is a program of applied scientific research
geared towards understanding and predicting the effects of the Sun on
human society. The LWS data environment is key to the success of the
program. We will have to combine diverse data sets from a wide array of
sources, including ones beyond the formal LWS missions. Data must be
integrated with models and across disciplines. The size of some of the
data sets will be unprecedented in our field, requiring innovations in
data searching and selection techniques. We will have to work together
as a community to develop easy data access, metadata standards,
community software trees, and other essentials to the free sharing of
data needed to attain LWS goals.
2400 IONOSPHERE
2700 MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS
7500 SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY
7800 SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS
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16:55h
SH52C-06 INVITED
Next Steps Toward an Integrated Solar-Terrestrial Data Environment: A
Summary View
Baker, D N
daniel.baker@lasp.colorado.edu
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, U. of Colorado, 1234
InnovationDrive, Boulder, CO 80303 United States
The goal of solar-terrestrial research is to obtain information about
the connected Sun-Earth system. However, the key to scientific success
is to convert this information (data) into knowledge and, ultimately, to
transform knowledge into wisdom. It has rightly been noted that research
and development agencies such as NASA (as well as NSF, NOAA, and DOD)
with new missions and new data collection platforms have been
transformed into knowledge agencies. In order to make major new advances
in solar-terrestrial research, it will be necessary to couple physical
models from the Sun to the Earth and to assimilate vast data sets in a
rapid and efficient way. As a summary of the preceding panel discussion
and this session overall, this talk will attempt to identify our best
consensus understanding of the next steps that should be taken to
achieve a modern, well-integrated solar-terrestrial data environment.
2194 Instruments and techniques
2494 Instruments and techniques
2794 Instruments and techniques
7594 Instruments and techniques
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