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4 Agency Activities and Related Recommendations
4 Agency Activities and Related Recommendations
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With this network, researchers cart probe processes deep within the Sun that generate the magnetic field, observe the emergence of that magnetic field through the Sun's surface layers, determine the origins and fonns of the associated solar activity, trace the interplanetary propagation and consequences of solar transients, and characterize the resulting impacts on geospace. Assessment of NASA Activities for the Solar Maximum NASA is not currently committed to funding Mission Operations arid Data Analysis for the ISTP program (including SOHO, Wind, Polar, and Geotai]
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; and The ability to predict the effects of solar events on Earth arid its space environment (GGS Wind for interplanetary inputs and boundary conditions on the magnetosphere; Polar for polar region response; Geotai} for magnetosphenc response in the magnetotai! region, where 2 Space Studies Board, National Research Council,Research and Data Analysis Programs: Engines for Innovation and Synthesis, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1998, in preparation.
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. Users look to the NOAA SEC for products and services ranging from educational and research 3 Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research,~e National Space Weather Program: Me Implementation Plan, FCM-P31-1997, Washington, D.C., January 1997.
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NOAA's internal research efforts are focused mainly on problems relating to improved user services. Assessment of NOAA Activities for the Solar Maximum NOAA SEC and NGDC expect to provide the following regular services and products dunng the increases in solar activity and associated solar-terrestnal/geophysical disturbances that occur throughout an approximately 7-year period surrounding solar maximum: · Forecasts of specific solar events such as solar flares, CMEs, and solar proton events; Forecasts of space environment and terrestrial perturbations such as ionospheric and geomagnetic disturbances; · Updates and reports on the status of solar-terrestrial phenomena and disturbances, including publication of solar geophysical data bulletins and WWW site space weather reports; 28
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Conclusions and Recommendations for NOAA NOAA is the leader of the nation's space environment mon~tonng program arid is central to the interagency NSWP. NOAA has the unique responsibilities of distributing high-quality geophysical data to a broad-based national and international community arid providing reliable 4 See Chapter 5, "Technology Transition and Data Management," file I1ational Space Weather Program: The Implementation Plan, FCM-P3 1-1997, Office of Me Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, Washington, D.C., January 1997.
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The committees recommend that NOAA, through its Space Environment Center, develop and execute a plan to fulfill its responsibilities within the National Space Weather Program during the coming period of enhanced demand for space environment forecasting services. The committees also recommend that NOAA ensure the certification and prompt dissemination of space environment and geophysical databases through its National Geophysical Data Center.
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These programs, which focus on upper atmosphere, magnetosphere, and solar radiative variability aspects of the solar-terrestrial system, include both sponsored research and open workshops. The SHINE working group, which represents a counterpart of the above-mentioned programs for solar/heliospheric space weather discussions, is also supplemented by the Upper Atmosphere Research Section, although it is not specifically an NSF activity.
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· The committees recommend that NSF continue its leadership role in the National Space Weather Program and champion stronger interagency involvement in the NSWP to maximize the nation's benefit from the program dunng the solar maximum. · The committees also recommend that NSF consider initiating interagency discussion of a specific solar maximum campaign similar to that developed for the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 event.
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Both the Aerospace Corporation and the Phillips Laboratory's Geophysics Directorates provide for routine space environment measurements on DOD spacecraft. The impact of space weather on DOD missions exceeds $0.5 billion per year.
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9 On January 21, 1998, the Real-Time Solar Wind (RTSW) system developed by NOAA's Space Environment Center (SEC)
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Another activity is solar irradiance modeling to develop ground-based proxies for solar W-EW radiation that are important to the Navy upper-atmosphere program descnbed below. In upper-atmosphere space observations, NRL is supplying operational space weather sensors for the DMSP weather satellites that will fly between 2000 and 2010.
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The committees recommend that this participation be strengthened through joint endeavors such as the development of rapid prototyp~ng systems for space environment forecasting. the following: Specific recommendations for the Air Force programs during the solar maximum include Further integrate the Air Force efforts with the National Space Weather Program, both to take advantage of the NSWP products and to provide insight on tools useful to the NSWP.
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Data from this experiment will be supplied to NOAA in real time for space weather predictions and will also be used for a van ety of scientific studies during the solar maximum. Assessment of DOE Activities for the Solar Maximum Although DOE does not have a particular program targeted for the solar maximum, it has committed to continuing to field space environmental sensors as a part of its ongoing space programs and to support ongoing and expeditious analysis and distnbution of those data.
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Conclusions and Recommendations for DOE t Although DOE has reasons for its highly targeted commitment to the space environment endeavor, the committees believe that with minimal disruption ofthe status quo, DOE's contribution to the solar maximum activities described herein can be enhanced. · The committees recommend that DOE participate in the dialogue of the interagency coordinating committee for the National Space Weather Program and reassess its own role in that activity (e.g., in the area of power transmissions.
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