Invitation to Contribute to a Paper: "Advancing Open Science in Heliophysics Modeling"

Heliophysics Open Modeling Environment (HOME) movement have been initiated during the CCMC 2024 Open Science in Modeling Workshop in June 2024 

https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ccmc-workshops/ccmc-2024-workshop/ 

Block agenda with links to open science sessions description is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18GzqSAHGnrv7kpGOcxbbjMTb375kzvCvcYLM6-YdDvc/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Discussions at the workshop addressed the role of models in heliophysics and space weather, a need to strengthen the modeling community, challenges and opportunities of implementing open science practices in modeling, and resources, infrastructures, and support that heliophysics and space weather modelers need to maximize scientific return on open science implementations.

Discussions continued during the ISWAT 2025 Working Meeting in February 2025. There were suggestions to include HOME as one of ISWAT overarching activities.  

A paper "Advancing Open Science in Heliophysics Modeling" that is build upon these discussions is under preparations. Intended submission to Space Weather Journal is the end of July 2025. 

Model developers are invited to contribute to a section dedicated to model development stories, tentatively titled "Successes and Challenges in Open Science in Heliophysics Modeling: Modelers’ Perspective"

Guidelines for contributions (a few paragraphs, not to exceed 1 page):

  • Brief model description with a reference(s) (10-15 lines or less)
  • How your model was used to advance open science, e.g., open development and/or open use?
  • Lessons learned and outlook from your open science experience 

We are also planning to add a section on importance of open access to observational data ready to be used for model inputs, model validation and data assimilation.

International participants are invited to contribute by providing references to national policies/programs on heliophysics and space weather modeling and short citations  from this documents relevant to topics in our paper. There are plenty of citations from US documents on model importance and open science (e.g., US Heliophysics Decadal). We need to add references  to other national/international  documents (including documents, roadmaps similar to the US Decadal) with citations on relevant topics (e.g., importance of models, open science, etc). 

It would be great to include citations from European documents on different topics discussed in the paper, especially on open science policies and/or on the role of models. Or any documents similar to UD Decadal.

Sign up to join HOME and/or the paper: https://forms.gle/pzybfSCgxXMP5DxY8     (or https://bit.ly/signupHOME).

After signing up you will receive a link to a paper draft. Contributions can be inserted into the paper draft or send by e-mail to Masha Kuznetsova and Claudio Corti.

Deadline for contributions: July 15, 2025