COSPAR International Space Weather Action Teams: Addressing Challenges Across the Field of Space Weather.

Advanced predictions of space weather impacts require improved understanding and modeling capabilities of coupled chains of space environment processes. It is necessary to assemble parts of the source-to-impact puzzle by identifying, addressing and solving problems focused on specific physical domains, and then to connect all validated solutions from space weather origins on the sun to impacts on coupled geospace system, humans and technologies. To address the need for multi-disciplinary international space weather research community connecting experts in space weather phenomena across all domains and experts in space environment impact, the COSPAR Panel on Space Weather facilitated establishment of a network of International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT, https://www.iswat-cospar.org, @IswatCosparOrg). ISWAT serves as a global hub for community coordinated topical collaborations focused on different aspects of space weather including advancing understanding, assessment and improvement of modeling capabilities, transitioning advances in research to operations, optimized utilization of available observations, and generating inputs to future instrumentation deployment. Action teams are building blocks of ISWAT initiative. ISWAT action teams are organized into domain-based ISWAT clusters. Action teams are working in coordinated effort across physical domain and across borders. The primary ISWAT goal is to advance space weather predictive capabilities based on best science available. The ISWAT currently includes more than 250 active participants and more than 50 action teams. The presentation will overview the outcome from the COSPAR ISWAT Inaugural Working Meeting in February 2020, highlight recent progress in advancing physics-based predictive capabilities and discuss plans for transforming COSPAR space weather Roadmap into a living document maintained by the community.