The Space Weather Reanalysis

The objective of this project is to generate a complete 11 year space weather representation using physically consistent data-driven space weather models. The project will create a consistent, integrated historical record of the near Earth space environment by coupling observational data from space environmental monitoring system archives with data-driven, physically based numerical models. The resulting product will be an enhanced look at the space environment on consistent grids, time resolution, coordinate systems and containing key fields allowing a research customer 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. We will present a status report for the project concentrating on new data, new models and new web based access added in 2003. In particular we will present results from the Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model (GITM) run for 1997-1998, AMIE run for 1999-2001 and the new SWR website available at the National Geophysical Data Center.