Scoreboard of the Inner Magnetosphere Charging Environment: Realtime Validation of an Ensemble of Community Models

In order to facilitate transitioning space environment/space science models into operations, it is crucial to test and validate models for historical and realtime/forecasting modes. CCMC has initiated several realtime/forecasting method validation efforts, including the CME arrival time scoreboard (running since 2013), flare scoreboard, SEP (solar energetic particle) scoreboard, and others (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/scoreboards.php).

In addition to demonstrating the initial results of such an effort, we hope to spur communities' broad participation in launching a scoreboard for forecasting the near-Earth charging (surface and internal) environment. We will leverage discussion results from the Space Radiation and Plasma Effects focus team from the International Forum for Space Weather Modeling Capabilities Assessment (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/) where two sets of physical quantities (Zheng et al., 2019, Space Weather) have been identified for assessing model performance, one from an engineering perspective and the other from a science perspective, as well as the experience from the SPACESTORM/SPACECAST, H2020 PROGRESS and other community projects. Visualization/display of realtime quantities, measurements/data needed, which orbit(s) (e.g.,GEO, MEO, LEO) to start, choice of metrics, and other items will be shown and discussed.