The CCMC is a multi-agency activity with two objectives. The first is to provide research support to the international science community through the provision of access to state-of-the-art space science models. The second goal is to provide to NASA, the DoD, NOAA, and other customers space environment information derived from modern space weather models. This presentation will provide an overview of the CCMC setup, hosted models, and CCMC activities.
As part of its functions, the CCMC evaluates the capability of models to correctly describe the space environment. For scientific as well as for space weather purposes the structure and evolution of the solar wind play an important role. This talk will present a brief overview of existing Sun-to-Earth (or Sun-to-planet) model chains. The second part will focus on validation studies pertaining to the quality of quiet and disturbed solar wind structure.
The geospace environment continues to attract considerable scientific interest, and it is a natural focus of space weather-related research. Consequently, assessments of the continuously evolving capabilities of geospace models are of considerable interest for scientists, space weather interests, and also for funding agencies. This presentation will describe results from a CCMC-led, community-wide, activity to quantitatively measure geospace model capabilities, including those relevant for electrical power grid operators.