Enabling Space Weather research, analysis, and forecasting at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center

The Community Coordinated Modeling Center ( CCMC ) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Weather Laboratory is dedicated to enabling and performing research, analysis, and forecasting of both large-scale and local space environments. To accurately specify and forecast the space environment, the CCMC employs the use of a comprehensive collection of physics-based models that cover the entire space weather domain from the sun to the earth. The CCMC's utilization of advanced space weather models, coupled with data from NASA and other missions and facilities, creates a unique and data-rich environment that allows the group to provide a host of space weather products and services. The distribution of scientific research data is at the heart of the CCMC - which has two core goals: (1) facilitate community research and (2) address national space weather needs. These goals are being achieved by providing access to space weather model simulations, model output data, advanced visualization tools, and real-time space weather tools/products. These services cater to a wide audience ranging from expert plasma physicists who execute simulations on CCMC super computers, to citizen scientists who monitor space weather in real-time on CCMC developed mobile applications. This paper will present an overview of CCMC services, and outline some of the technical challenges and design patterns employed by the CCMC in distributing space weather resources.