2021/01/01 by Tamas I. Gombosi, T. I. Gombosi, Yuxi Chen +25
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Aerospace engineering #Center (category theory) #Computer science #Core (optical fiber) #Engineering #Geography #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Meteorology #Operations research #Physics #Quarter (Canadian coin) #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Space (punctuation) #Space Science #Space weather #Stability (learning theory) #Systems engineering #Telecommunications #Term (time) #astro-ph.EP #physics.comp-ph #physics.plasm-ph #physics.space-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/swsc/2021020
published as J. Space Weather and Space Climate, 2021 · 105 pages, 36 figures, in press
openalex publication_date 2021/01/01 · arxiv created 2021/05/27 · arxiv updated 2021/05/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)-based global space weather models have mostly been developed and maintained at academic institutions. While the “free spirit” approach of academia enables the rapid emergence and testing of new ideas and methods, the lack of long-term stability and support makes this arrangement very challenging. This paper describes a successful example of a university-based group, the Center of Space Environment Modeling (CSEM) at the University of Michigan, that developed and maintained the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) and its core element, the BATS-R-US extended MHD code. It took a quarter of a century to develop this capability and reach its present level of maturity that makes it suitable for research use by the space physics community through the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) as well as operational use by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).