ISWAT - International Space Weather Action Teams 

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Action Teams work via self-guided topical collaborations on different aspects of space weather organized into ISWAT Clusters. 

Please contact Team Leads to join registered Team listed below or use a "Joint the Team" webform.

 S1: Long-term solar variability

• S1-01: Long-term solar variability (Lead: Ilya Usoskin <ilya.usoskin@oulu.fi>)
• S1-02: Worst-case scenario for extreme solar event (Lead: Ilya Usoskin <ilya.usoskin@oulu.fi>)
• S1-03: Data sets of historical observations of solar and geomagnetic activity (Lead: Alexander Pevtsov aapevtsov@nso.edu )
• S1-05: Decadal-scale Solar Activity Prediction Challenge (Lead: Claudio Corti corti@hawaii.edu Dibyendu Nandi dnandi@iiserkol.ac.in )
• S1-06: Long-term GCR modeling during Grand Minima (Lead: Claudio Corti corti@hawaii.edu )

S2: Ambient  solar magnetic field, heating & spectral irradiance

• S2-01: Coronal hole boundary working team (Lead: Martin Reiss martin.reiss@oeaw.ac.at Karin Muglach karin.muglach@nasa.gov )
• S2-02: Solar Indices and Irradiance Working Team (Leads: Carl Henney <cjhenney@gmail.com>, Karin Muglach <karin.muglach@nasa.gov>)
• S2-03: Global Solar Magnetic Field Working Team (Leads: Carl Henney <cjhenney@gmail.com>, Nick Arge <charles.n.arge@nasa.gov >)
• S2-04: Use of vector field synoptic maps (Lead: Alexei Pevtsov <apevtsov@nso.edu>)
• S2-05: Sun-Spacecraft and Sun-Earth Magnetic Connectivity (Lead: Rui Pinto rui.pinto@irap.omp.eu Jon Linker linkerj@predsci.com )
• S2-06: Origins of the Spectral Irradiance and its Intermediate Timescale Variability (Lead: James Klimchuk <James.A.Klimchuk@nasa.gov>, Sherry Chhabra <Chhabra.Sherry@gmail.com>)
• S2-07: Propagating coronal waves and magnetic field interaction (Lead: Isabell Piantschitsch <isabell.piantschitsch@uib.es>, Jaume Terradas <jaume.terradas@uib.es>)
• S2-08: Action Team: Metrics for Validating Coronal Holes (Lead: Laura Boucheron lboucher@nmsu.edu)

S3: Solar eruptions

• S3-01 (paused): Flare Scoreboard (Lead: Sophie Murray <Sophie.Murray@dias.ie>) 
• S3-03 (paused): Ensemble Forecasts for Space Weather (Lead: Jordan Guerra <Jordan Guerra <jordan.guerra@noaa.gov>) (paused)
• S3-04: Radio Observations of the Sun and Corona (Lead: Peijin Zhang peijinz@ucar.edu Pietro Zucca zucca@astron.nl )
• S3-05: Understanding the Onset of CMEs/Eruptive Flares (Lead: Larisza Krista larisza.krista@colorado.edu Fadil Inceoglu fadil.inceoglu@noaa.gov )
• S3-06: Flare precursors (Lead: Larisza Krista larisza.krista@gmail.com )

H1: Heliospheric magnetic field and solar wind

• H1-01: Ambient Solar Wind Validation Working Team (Leads: Martin Reiss <Martin.Reiss@oeaw.ac.at>, Karin Muglach <karin.muglach@nasa.gov>, Barbara Perri <barbara.perri@cea.fr>, Evangelia Samara <evangelia.samara@kuleuven.be>)
• H1-02: Heliospheric Radio Diagnostics of the Inner Heliosphere (Lead: John Morgan Morgan john.morgan@csiro.au, Oyuki Chang oyuki.chang@stfc.ac.uk )
• H1-03: Solar Wind Scoreboard (Lead: Martin Reiss martin.a.reiss@outlook.com )

H2: CME structure, evolution and propagation through heliosphere

• H2-01: CME Arrival Time and Impact Working Team (Leads: C. Verbeke <cgjmverbeke@gmail.com>, M. L. Mays <m.leila.mays@nasa.gov>)
• H2-02: Magnetic Profiles of Interplanetary CMEs (Lead: Christina Kay ckay314@gmail.com )
• H2-03: CME model evaluation through synthetic observations (Lead: Luke Barnard <l.a.barnard@reading.ac.uk>, Tanja Amerstorfer <tanja.amerstorfer@oeaw.ac.at>)
• H2-04: Heliospheric CME Observations to Improve Space Weather Model Validation (Lead: David Barnes david.barnes@stfc.ac.uk )
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H3: Radiation environment in heliosphere

• H3-01: SEP Validation (Leads: Katie Whitman kathryn.whitman@nasa.gov, Phil Quinn philip.r.quinn@nasa.gov, Hazel Bain  hazel.bain@noaa.gov, Ian Richardson ian.g.richardson@nasa.gov, Mark Dierckxsens Mark.Dierckxsens@aeronomie.be, M. Leila Mays, m.leila.mays@nasa.gov); SEP Scoreboard (Leads: M. Leila Mays m.leila.mays@nasa.gov, Mark Dierckxsens Mark.Dierckxsens@aeronomie.be)
• H3-02: The Suprathermal Seed Population in the Interplanetary Medium (Lead: Maher Dayeh maldayeh@swri.edu 

H4: Space Weather at other planets/ planetary bodies

• H4-01: Understanding the physics of Space Weather at planetary bodies (Lead: Reka Winslow rwinslow@guero.sr.unh.edu ) 
• H4-03: Mars Space Weather Community Modeling Challenge (Lead: Leila Mays m.leila.mays@nasa.gov Gabor Toth gtoth@umich.edu Amanda Brecht amanda.s.brecht@nasa.gov Melinda Kahre melinda.a.kahre@nasa.gov Yingjuan Ma yingjuan@ucla.edu )
• H4-04: Mars Space Weather Requirements (Lead: Gina DiBraccio gina.a.dibraccio@nasa.gov Beatriz Sanchez-Cano bscmdr1@leicester.ac.uk Claudio Corti corti@hawaii.edu Leila Mays m.leila.mays@nasa.gov )
• H4-05: Mars Radiation Environment (Lead: Yihua Zheng yihua.zheng@nasa.gov Arik Posner arik.posner@nasa.gov Chris Mertens christopher.j.mertens@nasa.gov Ricky Egeland ricky.a.egeland@nasa.gov )

G1: Geomagnetic environment

• G1-01: Geoelectric field and GIC modelling Working Team (Lisa Rosenqvist <lisa.rosenqvist@foi.se>) 
• G1-02: Mid-to-Low-Latitude Space Weather Effects (Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA <nykyrik@erau.edu>)
• G1-03: Auroral Precipitation and High Latitude Electrodynamics (AuroraPHILE) (Lead: Bob Robinson robert.m.robinson@nasa.gov Katie Garcia-Sage katherine.garcia-sage@nasa.gov)

• G1-04: MHD models of the geomagnetic environment and their capability to reproduce small scale GIC source processes (Lead: Daniel Welling daniel.welling@uta.edu )

• G1-05: Understanding the Geomagnetic Response to CMEs (Lead: Edmund Henley edmund.henley@metoffice.gov.uk)

• G1-06: Geospace Scoreboard (Lead: Edmund Henley edmund.henley@metoffice.gov.uk)

• G1-07: Beyond the Continuum: Bridging Kinetic & MHD Models (Lead: Liutauras Rusaitis liutauras.rusaitis@nasa.gov )

G2a: Atmosphere variability

• G2A-01: Thermosphere Model Assessment and Improvement (Lead: Sean Bruinsma <sean.bruinsma@cnes.fr>)
• G2A-02: Space Weather and Lower Atmosphere (Lead: Jia Yue jia.yue@nasa.gov )
• G2A-03: Satellite Aerodynamic Modeling (Lead: Piyush Mehta piyush.mehta@mail.wvu.edu )
• G2A-04: Assessing Thermospheric Neutral Density Models using GEODYN's Precision Orbit Determination (Lead: Katherine Garcia-Sage katherine.garcia-sage@nasa.gov Zach Waldron zachary.waldron@colorado.edu )
• G2A-05: Data Assimilation for Thermosphere Neutral Density (Lead: Shaylah Mutschler smutschler@spacewx.com Nick Dietrich Nicholas.Dietrich@colorado.edu )

 G2b: Ionosphere variability

• G2B-01: TechTIDE Warning and Mitigation Technologies for Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Effects (Lead: Anna Belehaki <belehaki@noa.gr>)
• G2B-02: Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities and Their Impact on Trans-ionospheric Radio Waves. (Lead: Wojciech Miloch w.j.miloch@fys.uio.no )
• G2B-03: LW-Sun-Ionosphere nexus (Lead: Dr. Shanmugha Sundaram G A ga_ssundaram@cb.amrita.edu )
• G2B-04: Ionospheric perturbation indices and scales (Lead: Norbert Jakowski norbert.jakowski@dlr.de )
• G2B-05: Ionosphere Plasma Density: NmF2/foF2, hmF2, TEC (Lead: Ioanna Tsagouri tsagouri@noa.gr )
• G2B-06: Global and Regional Ionospheric Total Electron Content (Lead: Ludger Scherliess ludger.scherliess@usu.edu )
• G2B-07: HamSCI: Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (Lead: Nathaniel Frissell nathaniel.frissell@scranton.edu Phil Erickson pje@mit.edu )
• G2B-08: Ground-based and space borne HF-VHF ionospheric investigations (Lead: Hanna Rothkaehl hrot@cbk.waw.pl Maaijke Mevius mevius@astron.nl )
• G2B-09: Ionospheric Scoreboard Development (Lead: Katherine Garcia-Sage katherine.garcia-sage@nasa.gov )
• G2B-10: Modelling and Forecasting Ionospheric TEC/Scintillations based on Artificial Intelligence Methods (Lead: Devanaboyina Venkata Ratnam dvratnam@kluniversity.in Pasumarthi Babu Sree Harsha harry9harsha@gmail.com Gampala Siva Vara Prasad gsivavaraprasad@gmail.com )
• G2B-11: Space weather effects on the D-region: measurements, monitoring, and modelling (Lead: Carine Briand Carine.briand@obspm.fr Mark Clilverd macl@bas.ac.uk )
• G2B-12: Antarctic Geospace and ATmosphere reseArch (AGATA) (Lead: Lucilla Alfonsi lucilla.alfonsi@ingv.it Wojciech J. Miloch w.j.miloch@fys.uio.no )

 G3: Near-Earth radiation and plasma environment

• G3-01: Radiation Effects at Aviation Altitudes (Leads: Kent Tobiska <ktobiska@spacenvironment.net>, Matthias Meier <matthias.meier@dlr.de>)
• G3-02: Surface Charging Effects and the Relevant Space Environment (Leads: Natalia Ganushkina  <ganuna@umich.edu>, Joseph Minow <joseph.minow@nasa.gov>)
• G3-03: On Total Dose Effects (Leads: Insoo Jun <insoo.jun@jpl.nasa.gov>, Timothy Guild <timothy.b.guild@aero.org>)
• G3-04: Internal Charging Effects and the Relevant Space Environment (Leads: Yuri Shprits <yuri.shprits@gfz-potsdam.de>, T. Paul O'Brien <paul.obrien@aero.org>)
• G3-05: Solar Energetic Particle Population in Geospace (Lead: Valeriy Tenishev vtenishe@umich.edu )
• G3-06: Precipitation of Energetic Particles from Magnetosphere and Their Effects on the Atmosphere (Lead: Dedong Wang, Chao Yue, Alexander Drozdov)
• G3-07: Combined G3-02 and G3-04 Activities (Lead: Yuri Shprits Janet Green Vania Jordanova )

 S2G: Sun to Geospace

• S2G-01: Building a Community Portal for Great Helio Storms (Lead: Masha Kuznetsova mmkuznets@gmail.com, Mario Bisi mario.bisi@stfc.ac.uk )
• S2G-02: Sun 2 Geospace Scoreboard (Lead: Adam Kubaryk Adam.Kubaryk@noaa.gov Masha Kuznetova mmkuznets@gmail.com )
• S2G-03: Cross-domain radio (Lead: Mario Bisi mario.bisi@stfc.ac.uk John Morgan john.morgan@csiro.au Peijin Zhang peijinz@ucar.edu )

 O1: Assessment

• O1-01: Community-Wide Tracking of Efficiency and Effectiveness (Lead: Adam Kellerman akellerman@epss.ucla.edu,  Brett Carter brett.carter@rmit.edu.au,  Alexa Halford alexa.j.halford@nasa.gov )
• O1-02: Quantification of Uncertainties in Space Weather Forecasts (Lead: Nikolai Pogorelov np0002@uah.edu Enrico Camporeale enrico.camporeale@colorado.edu Ming Zhang mzhang@fit.edu )
• O1-03: Toward a community consensus for metrics in solar physics and space weather (Lead: Evangelia Samara evangelia.sam@gmail.com C. Nick Arge charles.n.arge@nasa.gov )

 O2: Information Architecture and Data Utilization

• O2-01: Kamodo Python Visualization (Leads: Darren De Zeeuw <darrens@umich.edu>,  Asher Pembroke <apembroke@gmail.com>)
• O2-02: Using SPASE metadata to facilate data science (Lead: Shing Fung shing.f.fung@nasa.gov )
• O2-03: Data archive preparation and implementation to advance Machine Learning activities for space weather forecasting in support of human exploration (Lead: Viacheslav Sadykov sadykov@baeri.org Yaireska (Yari) Collado-Vega yaireska.m.colladovega@nasa.gov)
• O2-04: Digital Object Identifiers to support Space Weather (Lead: Guido De Marchi gdemarchi@esa.int Aaron Roberts aaron.roberts@nasa.gov )
• O2-05: HAPI Standard Development and Promulgation (Lead: Jon Vandegriff jon.vandegriff@jhuapl.edu Robert Weigel rweigel@gmu.edu )
• O2-06: Coordination and collaborations of Python libraries and tools for ISWAT (Lead: Arnaud Masson Arnaud.Masson@esa.int 
• O2-07: Swarm-SWITCH, Space Weather Timeline Viewer (Lead: Eelco Doornbos eelco.doornbos@knmi.nl )
• O2-08: 3D visualization of space weather in OpenSpace (Lead: Elon Olsson elon.olsson@nasa.gov )

O3: Innovative Solutions (retired)

• O3-01: SWELTO - Space Weather Lab in Turin Observatory (Leads: Alessandro Bemporad alessandro.bemporad@inaf.it Silvano Fineschi silvano.fineschi@inaf.it) (paused)
• O3-02: SPARC (Lead: Zafar Iqbal zaf@sparc.space ) (paused)
   

O3A: Data Assimilation

• O3A-1: SWORD – Space Weather Operational Readiness Development Center (Lead (proposed): Mark Miesch, CU/CIRES)
• O3A-2: Operational forecasting for geospace satellite navigation (Lead (proposed) Shayla Mutschler, SET)

O3B: Machine Learning

• _{O3B-1 SWORD – Space Weather Operational Readiness Development Center (Lead (proposed): Yang Chen, UMichigan)}
• O3B-2  TBD

 O4: Education/Outreach

• O4-01: User-focused Space Weather Training Network (Lead: Yihua Zheng yihua.zheng@nasa.gov Todd Blum todd.blum@peraton.com) Miho Janvier (ESA/ESTEC, NETHERLANDS), miho.janvier@esa.int, Suzy Bingham (UK Met Office, UK), suzy.bingham@metoffice.gov.uk