Vision for ISWAT moving forward

GLOBAL COMMUNITY

VOICE

GLOBAL COMMUNITY

FORUM

ISWAT

Masha M. Kuznetsova

with ISWAT Moderators

ISWAT 2025 – 10 February, 2025

ISWAT Evolution

• ISWAT concept was initiated during International CCMC-LWS Forum on Space Weather Capabilities Assessment, Cape Canaveral, March 2017
• COSPAR adopted ISWAT, included in PSW Terms of References (2018)
• Credit to Herman Opgenoorth.
• Brainstorming meeting at STFC RAL, UK, August 2018 (organised by Mario Bisi)
• Original team of ISWAT Moderators:

Masha Kuznetsova, Mario Bisi, Sean Bruinsma, Hermann Opgenoorth

Manuela Temmer, Jon Linker, Anna Belehaki, Sophie Murray, Arnaud Masson, Ian Mann, Dibyendu Nandi, Bob Wimmer, Alexi Glover (now Advisors)

• Inaugural ISWAT Meeting, 2020, Florida, Cape Canaveral, Solar orbiter launch, Roadmap planning as a community–wide endeavor.
• More Moderators/Co-Moderators: Martin Reiss, Ioanna Tsagouri, Yihua Zheng, Alexei Pevtsov, Bob Robinson, Jia Jue, Shing Fung, Jingnan Guo, Insoo Jun, Christina Plainaki
• ISWAT 2022, Coimbra. Multiple mini-ISWATs (virtual and in-person)

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ISWAT Status

• Next generation of Moderators/Co-Moderators (post-Roadmap)
• Larisza Krista, Jordan Guerra, Evangelia Samara, Nishtha Sachdeva, Emma Davies, Lulu Zhao, Tom Berger
• More moderators / co-moderators are invited
• Non-bureaucratic approach
• No formal bylaws
• Following general COSPAR guidelines
• Need logo !!!

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80+ Action Teams organized into 17 Clusters,

700+ active members, 50+ countries, 400+affiliations

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https://iswat-cospar.org

Groups or individuals working on specific topic across the field of space weather can register a new Action Team team and open it for others to join.

Welcoming attitude. Active Participants and Followers

ISWAT maximises return on investments by national/regional programs

ISWAT is Hub for Self-Organized Open Collaborations

A Flexible Effort Multiplier

Teams associated with existing community initiatives or funded programs

S3-05: Understanding the Onset of CMEs/Eruptive Flares (LWS Focus Science Team) (S. Antiochos, taken over by L. Krista)

O1-02: Quantification of Uncertainties in Space Weather Forecasts (Nick Pogorelov)

H3-04: CLEAR: All Clear SEP Predictions (Lulu Zhao)

O3A-01: SWORD: Space Weather Operational Readiness Development Center (Tom Berger et al)

G2B-12: AGATA (Lucilla Alfonsi)

G2B-07: HamSCI: Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (Nathaniel Frissele et al)

O2-01: Kamodo Python Visualization

O2-07: Swarm-SWITCH, Space Weather Timeline Viewer

Teams working on their own schedule

G2B-04: Ionospheric perturbation indices and scales (Norbert Jakowski)�S2-06: Origins of the Spectral Irradiance and its Intermediate Timescale Variability (Jim Klimchuk)

Moving Forward

• Work on executing Roadmap recommendations.
• Align with recommendations from national strategic and implementation plans (including Heliophysics Decadal)
• Move fast and build awesome Community Products
• Partner with operational centers and commercial sector to align Community Products with needs of user groups
• Develop next generation of leaders
• Work across clusters and domains
• Take advantage of all tools in our toolbox to advance understanding, modeling and forecasting of flow of space environment processes from Sun to impact
• Explore opportunities for community modeling, combining various modeling approaches.
• Interconnect simulation services and portals for real time data/modeling streams
• Improve utilization of available observations and get ready for data from new missions.
• Agree on approach to Roadmap updates

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