On August 28-29 JCSDA hosted the JEDI Space Weather Data Assimilation Workshop in Boulder, CO, with attendees from across all of our partners, academia, and industry. Exciting discussions on innovations in space weather data assimilation (DA) and prediction and how these can be facilitated with the JCSDA JEDI system commenced, ranging from alignment of the thermospheric and ionospheric model interfaces for JEDI to the possibility of solar surface and heliospheric DA in JEDI.

Talks and discussions were facilitated by attendees from all across the space weather community, including JCSDA, NASA, NOAA, the Naval Research Lab, the Air Force Research Lab, University of Colorado’s space weather program, and COSMIC. The workshop ended with a summary of the discussions and a set of action items to move towards operational space weather DA in JEDI. These next steps include investigating extending generic JEDI code to geomagnetic grids, surveying models to integrate with JEDI, building a space weather UFO transition chart, and setting up a space weather observations working group. The JCSDA team and all attending are very excited about the advances in space weather on the horizon!

All workshop talks and discussions are viewable on the JCSDA YouTube channel.

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