International Space Environment Service

RWC Australia (Sydney), RWC Austria (Graz) RWC Belgium (Brussels), RWC Brazil (São José dos Campos),
RWC Canada (Ottawa), RWC China (Beijing), RWC Czech Republic (Prague), RWC India (New Delhi), RWC Japan (Tokyo),
RWC Korea (Jeju), RWC Poland (Warsaw), RWC Russia (Moscow), RWC South Africa (Hermanus),
RWC Sweden (Lund), RWC UK (Exeter), WWA USA (Boulder)

International Space Environment Service – 2015 Annual Meeting Agenda

David Skaggs Research Center, Room 2c406
325 Broadway
Boulder, Colorado, USA
April 9-11, 2015

April 9, 2015 – 09:00 – 17:30
09:00 Welcome, Logistical Issues, and Introductions
09:15 Director’s Report
09:30 1. Regional Warning Center Reports Since written and oral reports were given by most Centers last August during the 2014 annual meeting, Centers are not required to give reports. Centers may give full reports if they did not attend the 2014 meeting, or they may give brief updates.
Topics covered in the 2014 reports included:
10:45 Break
11:00 1. Regional Warning Center Reports (continued)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 2. Statements from Observer Organizations
14:45 3. ISES Web Site
15:30 Break
16:00 4. Discussion of updated ISES Constitution (2014 Action 5)
17:00 5. Summary of decisions and actions
17:30 Adjourn for the day

April 10, 2015 – 9:00 – 17:30
09:00 6. WMO Information System (WIS) Pilot Project (2014 Actions 3 and 4)
  • Review of product definition
  • Metadata example
  • Australia experience with registering products in WIS
10:45 Break
11:15 7. Describing RWC Products and Regions of Applicability (2014 Action 6)
  • Initial thoughts provided by RWC Australia will be distributed for this discussion
  • Review of the motivation for this action
  • Recommended approach for describing products and regions of applicability
  • Draft product descriptions for inclusion on the ISES web site
12:30 Lunch
14:00 7. Describing RWC Products and Regions of Applicability (continued)
15:00 8. Products and Information to be Exchanged in Machine-Readable Format (Action 7)
15:30 Break
16:00 8. Products and Information to be Exchanged in Machine-Readable Format (continued)
17:00 9. Summary of decisions and actions
17:30 Adjourn for the day

ISES Forecast Verification Workshop Agenda

Saturday 11th April 2015

Millennium Harvest House, 1345 28th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA
Century Room

09:00 – 09:15 Summary of European Space Weather Week verification session. Overview of space weather verification plans at the Met Office.
Suzy Bingham, Met Office, UK.
09:15 – 09:30 Introduction to NICT’s evaluation of the space weather forecasts provided by Japan, US, Belgium, Australia and China.
Mamoru Ishii, NICT, Japan.
09:30 – 09:45 Verification at RWC Belgium.
Jesse Andries & Andy Devos.
09:45 – 10:00 The verification of solar proton event probability forecasts at SEPC.
China SEPC.
10:00 – 10:30 State-of-the-art in weather forecast verification, and available tools and resources in the weather community.
Barbara Brown, NCAR, USA.
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break.
10:45 – 12:15 Discussion focus 1. Global product: flare forecasts.
Facilitators: Jesse Andries & Andy Devos.
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch.
13:15 – 13:30 Gathering GNSS data for making TEC maps and the effort of spreading GTEX format for easy exchange of GNSS data.
Mamoru Ishii, NICT, Japan.
13:30 – 13:45 TEC maps over Canada.
Robyn Fiori, Canada.
13:45 – 15:00 Discussion focus 2. Regional product: TEC nowcasts.
Facilitators: TBC.
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break.
15:15 – 16:30 Discussion on other verification topics.

Discussion topics
  • Product information & current verification by different centres.
  • Relevant quantities/values for verification.
  • Exact interpretation of communicated values.
  • Standardisation.
  • User-driven metrics.
  • ‘Truth’, true measurements to verify against.
  • Verification techniques to allow consistency & best-practices in order to compare verification of local products.
  • Coordination & collaboration.
  • Alignment with WIS Pilot Project.
  • Common products & exact descriptions of each so that verification results are comparable.
  • Future milestones/targets of verification.

Discussion on other verification topics (15:15 – 16:00)
  • Operational Enlil output composite plot.