H3-01 and SEPVAL: SEP Model Validation�Katie Whitman, Phil Quinn, Mark Dierckxsens, Piers Jiggens
- Saturday + Sunday SEPVAL workshop with speakers representing ESA’s space weather activities and SEP model developers describing their model approaches
- Formal validation challenge with 33 SEP events and 30 non-event periods with participation from 18 models
- Building on work since 2019 and first ISWAT in 2020, have developed a generalized SEP model validation framework – SPHINX (validation) and SPHINX-VIVID (visualization)
- Spirited discussion on e.g. meaning of all clear, process of connecting a forecast to a specific SEP event, and validation approach in general