Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/19/2019 - 03:39

ISWAT Clusters  and Action Teams 

 

  • An action team provides a building block of the ISWAT initiative. Activities of action teams are the primary driver for ISWAT progress.

  • Action teams are organized into ISWAT clusters grouped by domain, phenomena, or impact.

  • An action team chose to focus on specific topics relevant to ISWAT cluster objectives. 

  • Teams  are working in coordinated effort 

    • to advance understanding of space weather processes linked to major impacts and

    • to feed validated improvements in understanding,  modeling and forecasting into the research-to-operation (R2O) transition process. 

  • Teams can address different aspects of space weather capabilities, e.g.,

    • advancing understanding and modeling

    • defining essential space environment quantities (ESEQ) and criteria for impacts,

    • improving specifications and forecasting,

    • assessment of specification and forecasting  capabilities,

    • enabling organized  access to research products (data, models, applications, etc), (meta)data standardization,

    • optimized utilization of available observations, 

    • inputs for future mission planning, deployment of instrumentation,

    • generating inputs to the Roadmap updates.

  • Action team’s work is organized by team leads/co-leads.

  • Activities of action teams in a cluster are facilitated by a cluster moderator in coordination with team leads.