From Predicting Solar Activity to Forecasting Space Weather: Practical Examples of Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research

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• 作者：R. A. Steenburgh (1)
  D. A. Biesecker (1)
  G. H. Millward (1) (2)
  
• 关键词：Coronal mass ejections ; Magnetohydrodynamics
• 刊名：Solar Physics
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：February 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：289
• 期：2
• 页码：675-690
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• 作者单位：R. A. Steenburgh (1)
  D. A. Biesecker (1)
  G. H. Millward (1) (2)
  
  1. NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, USA
  2. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
  
• ISSN：1573-093X

文摘

The successful transition of research to operations (R2O) and operations to research (O2R) requires, above all, interaction between the two communities. We explore the role that close interaction and ongoing communication played in the successful fielding of three separate developments: an observation platform, a numerical model, and a visualization and specification tool. Additionally, we will examine how these three pieces came together to revolutionize interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) arrival forecasts. A?discussion of the importance of education and training in ensuring a positive outcome from R2O activity follows. We describe efforts by the meteorological community to make research results more accessible to forecasters and the applicability of these efforts to the transfer of space-weather research. We end with a forecaster ?ish list?for R2O transitions. Ongoing, two-way communication between the research and operations communities is the thread connecting it all.