SPACE WEATHER OPERATIONAL
READINESS DEVELOPMENT
TRACK 1
U-MICHIGAN

Our consortium

SWORD Track 1 brings together universities and the ESMF group, co-developing with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center to transition research products to operational forecasting.

TEAM MEMBERS
CU Boulder Lead institution
University of Colorado Boulder
Hosts the SWORD Center. Director's office and overall program leadership.
UMich Core partner
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Track 1 lead: development and coupling of the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) Geospace model with WAM-IPE.
ESMF Core partner
Earth Systems Modeling Framework (ESMF) group
NUOPC mediator development connecting SWMF/Geospace with WAM and IPE under the operational NOAA framework.
UAF GI Core partner
University of Alaska Fairbanks -Geophysical Institute
High-latitude electrodynamics and auroral observations.
U-Iowa Core partner
University of Iowa
Plasma physics and inner-magnetosphere observations heritage.
RESEARCH TO OPERATIONS SUPPORT
NOAA SWPC Operational partner
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
SWORD's operational co-development partner. New models that are validated in research environment are then transitioned to the SWPC testbed environment for further development to meet operational requirements.
NASA GSFC · CCMC Collaborator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CCMC
Community Coordinated Modeling Center supports the transition of research models to operations through collaborative modeling, simulation, and validation efforts. Research models can be submitted to the center's model base for community use and validation.
EXTERNAL PARTNERS
CLEAR CoE Sister Center
CLEAR Center for All-Clear SEP Forecast
NASA Space Weather Center of Excellence (PI: Lulu Zhao, University of Michigan) is developing a comprehensive prediction framework for solar energetic particles (SEP) to protect ARTEMIS and other Lunar missions. Collaboration between the two centers will benefit both the accuracy of the SEP prediction in the cis-lunar space and help increase lead time of the SWORD predictions in the near-Earth space.
SPARTA CoE Sister Center
SPARTA Center for Space Weather Research and Technology Applications
NASA Space Weather Center of Excellence (PI: Keith Groves, Boston College Institute for Scientific Research) aims to reduce society's vulnerabilities to space weather events, particularly the effects of ionospheric scintillation, or irregularities in the atmosphere caused by high solar activity, on communication, navigation, and timing systems.