SWIFF: space weather integrated forecasting framework

Giovanni Lapenta, Viviane Pierrard, Rony Keppens, Stefano Markidis, Stefaan Poedts, Ondřej Šebek, Pavel M Trávníček, Pierre Henri, Francesco Califano, Francesco Pegoraro, Matteo Faganello, Vyacheslav Olshevsky, Anna Lisa Restante, Åke Nordlund, Jacob Trier Frederiksen, Duncan Hendry Mackay, Clare Elizabeth Parnell, Alessandro Bemporad, Roberto Susino, Kris Borremans

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Abstract

SWIFF is a project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission to study the mathematical-physics models that form the basis for space weather forecasting. The phenomena of space weather span a tremendous scale of densities and temperature with scales ranging 10 orders of magnitude in space and time. Additionally even in local regions there are concurrent processes developing at the electron, ion and global scales strongly interacting with each other. The fundamental challenge in modelling space weather is the need to address multiple physics and multiple scales. Here we present our approach to take existing expertise in fluid and kinetic models to produce an integrated mathematical approach and software infrastructure that allows fluid and kinetic processes to be modelled together. SWIFF aims also at using this new infrastructure to model specific coupled processes at the Solar Corona, in the interplanetary space and in the interaction at the Earth magnetosphere.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberA05
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Space Weather and Space Climate
Volume3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Feb 2013

Keywords

  • space weather
  • modelling
  • high performance computing

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