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International Space Weather Action Teams

  • ISWAT is community-driven initiative
    • hub for global space weather community to facilitate topical collaborations
    • global community voice
  • ISWAT goal: advance space weather predictive capabilities based on best science currently available
  • ISWAT is effort multiplier. The sum is worth more than its parts.
    • Expose your project to the wider community and bring-in more expertise and ideas;
    • Make a good use of your data to challenge models;
    • Test models on certified data sets and internationally agreed metrics;
    • Participate in community-wide campaigns
  • ISWAT enables exchanges of interdisciplinary knowledge across all domains
  • ISWAT is inclusive and open to all individual and groups committed to active participation.
  • ISWAT provides opportunities for up-coming generation of leads.

ISWAT

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ISWAT Website: https://iswat-cospar.org, Twitter: @IswatCosparOrg

Maintained jointly by Team Leads and Cluster Moderators via Content Management System.

Secure website hosting is funded by COSPAR. Portal to ISWAT activities

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ISWAT Status in Numbers

as of Sep 2021

    • 55 Action Teams
    • 15 Clusters
    • 395 Active Members*
    • 130 Followers

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ISWAT

*To list ISWAT members go to “Join ISWAT” tab and click on “View ISWAT Members”

(can be filtered by cluster or role)

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Call for Nominations for

S3 and G2B Moderators

    • S3 Moderator
      • Sophie Murray is stepping down
      • Manolis Georgoulis will lead Roadmap S3 review

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    • G2B Moderator and Roadmap G2B review lead
      • Anna Belehaki is stepping down

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ISWAT

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ISWAT

ISWAT Working Meetings

Outcome-Focused Meetings Self-Organized by Participants with Live Agenda

  • ISWAT Precursor: International Forum on SW Capabilities Assessment Workshop, Florida, April 2017
    • AGU Space Weather Journal Special Issue: 30+ papers
  • ISWAT Inaugural Working Meeting, Florida, February 10-14, 2020
  • ISWAT Open Virtual Mini Meeting Series, Feb-Jun 2021
  • Teams/clusters continue working virtually
  • ISWAT Virtual Meeting, Sep 13-17, Sep 27 –Oct 1, 2021
  • ISWAT 3nd Working Meeting, Coimbra University, Portugal, March 28 – April 1, 2022 (in-person)

Call for Feedback

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ISWAT

ISWAT2021 Part 2

  • Sep 27-28: Splinter Session
  • Sep 29, Discussion Panel (organized by COSPAR PSW)
  • Sep 30, Source-to-impact pathways sessions
  • Oct 1, Status updates. Action plans. Preparation to ISWA2022.

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ISWAT

Panel Discussion on Sep 29th, 12:00-14:00 UT

  • How and where roadmaps are used, space-weather funding, national/international and organisational strategies, etc…
  • Tentative topics:
    • Progress since the last Roadmap;
    • Opportunities for the upcoming five years based on current understanding, available modelling and observational capabilities, and on-going/near-term missions;
    • Outlook beyond five years (where we want to be and how to get there?); 
    • How to coordinate/align national/regional programmes effectively;
    • How to connect space weather research programs with users’ needs.

�The confirmed invited panelists representing different parts of the world/different organisations

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Origin-to-Impact Pathways

Sun

Heliosphere

Coupled

Geospace

System

Impacts

To build space weather predictive capabilities based on science we need to

  • assemble parts of the source-to-impact puzzle by identifying gaps and solving problems focused on specific physical domains (Sun, Heliopshere, Geospace)
  • identify essential space environment quantities (ESEQs, ) passed between domains and linked to impacts
  • connect all validated solutions from space weather origins on the sun to impacts on critical infrastructure and humans