[2] The objective of this project was to generate a complete 11 year space weather representation using physically consistent data-driven space weather models. The project created a consistent, integrated historical record of the near Earth space environment by coupling observational data from space environmental monitoring systems archived at NGDC with data-driven, physically based numerical models. The resulting product is an enhanced look at the space environment on consistent grids, time resolution, coordinate systems and containing key fields allowing an environmental scientist to quickly and easily incorporate the impact of the near-Earth space climate in environmentally sensitive models. Currently there are no long term climate archives available for the space-weather environment. Just as with terrestrial weather it is crucial to understand both daily weather forecasts as well as long term climate changes, so this project will demonstrate the ability to generate a meaningful and physically derived space weather climatology.
[3] The results of this project strongly support the Environmental Scenario Generator (ESG) project [Kihn et al., 2004]. The ESG project provides tools for intelligent data mining, classification and event detection which could be applied to a historical space-weather database. The two projects together would provide a complete suite of tools for the user interested in modeling the effect of the near-earth space environment.
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