Space Weather Sub-Group Meeting 2025-04-09

Agenda

  1. GRWG SWx Subgroup Membership

  2. Brief Report on GSICS Annual Meeting 2025

  3. Work plan proposal (Hugh)

  4. GSICS SWx SG – PRBEM joint web meeting April 15 (Piers)

  5. Action Items

  6. Next sub-group meeting

  7. AOB

Minutes:

  • GRWG SWx Subgroup Membership
    • Eunjeong Cha (KMA) and Melanie Heil (ESA) have joined as new members. They will be added to the SWx subgroup member list.
  • Breakout Session brief report
    • Fruitful comments and discussions with possibilities for future collaboration.
    • Daehyeon and Cong took notes, final draft will be circulated by Nagatsuma-san for review.
    • 8 presentations
  1. GOES-19 MPS-HI calibration (Boudouridis)
  2. GOES 16-19 SGPS cross-calibrations (Kress)
  3. FengYun-3H/WAI-II pre-launch calibrations (Yang)
  4. Aditya-L1/ASPEX cross-calibration (Chakrabarty)
  5. Fengyun-3E Solar X-EUV imager in-orbit calibration (Gong)
  6. Multi-point GEO observations of major 2024 SWx events (Oh)
  7. Long-term variation of Himawari-8/SEDA – GOES-16/MPS-HI cross-calibration (Nagatsuma)
  8. Cross-calibration of ESA radiation monitors (Sandberg)
  • Work plan proposal (Hugh)
    Prepared document w/ Piers.
    Objective is to share data in coherent and consistent manner.
    Tasks:
    Map data level definitions (also need to note degree of public availability as function of data level)
    Define procedure for dataset cross-calibration
    Standardization of data format, esp. metadata and ancillary data – location, response functions, calibration reports
    Define data exchange services – real-time and archival access

Manik: How selecting metadata? IR instruments follow WMO.
Hugh: PRBEM is a good starting point. Often response functions and cal reports (esp. beam results) are not available for distribution.
Jesse: SWx metadata doc at WMO very limited.
Hugh: please send WMO metadata catalog.
Jesse: which level? inside files vs. data mgmt. systems
Hugh: location in files; response functions & cal reports outside files. Rely on pre-launch calibrations, can be changed based on post-launch simulations and cross-calibrations – a living process.
Ingmar: define procedure for selecting reference data set to be used. This would be time-dependent. Cross-calibration should be performed at the lowest level in order to prevent errors in one channel from affecting the entire spectrum in a retrieval
Hugh: this should be a living document.
Assign different parts to different people (2 people per part):
  • Map data level definitions: Nagatsuma & TBD
  • Define xcal procedure: Ingmar & Juan
  • Ancillary data: Jesse & Hugh
  • Data Exchange Services: TBD – NOAA or ESA experience?
Action for next meeting: nominate people for TBDs
  • *April 15 GSICS SWx SG – PRBEM joint meeting*
    1. use of COSPAR PRBEM Gitlab
    2. COSPAR PRBEM data analysis procedure
    Piers confirms this agenda and time (11 UTC). Send email to Piers if you would like to join.
  • *Action Items*
    1. Hugh – Work plan – proposed
    2. Closed
    3. Data levels definition & mapping ongoing – tied now to #1
    4, 5, 6 closed
    7. Common code base / PRBEM Gitlab: To be discussed next week with PRBEM
    8. closed
    9. How to update PRBEM data analysis procedure: To be discussed next week with PRBEM
  • Next Meeting
    Nagatsuma-san proposed that the next meeting be held on June 18, Wed same time (12 UTC):
    There was general agreement on this.
  • AOB
    None

Meeting adjourned at 13:20 UTC.

Attendees

CMA: Cong Huang

CU: Juan Rodriguez (minutes), Athanasios Boudouridis

ESA: Juha-Pekka Luntama, Hugh Evans, Piers Jiggens

ISRO: Mohamamad Hasan

KMA: Daehyeon Oh

NICT: Tsutomu Nagatsuma (Chair)

NOAA: Christian Naylor, Manik Bali

SPARC: Ingmar Sandberg

WMO: Jesse Andries

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