Community Coordinated Modeling Center: A centralized portal for research products entering the R2O transition pipeline.

Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) goals are to facilitate space weather research and model development and support development and deployment of new operational space weather capabilities. CCMC is enabling community access to and evaluation of deliverables from national space weather programs. CCMC is maintaining a centralized portal for research products-candidates entering the R2O transition pipeline. To evaluate model operational readiness the CCMC is developing automated software systems for continuously running models, analyzing and logging performance in real-time. CCMC is working with research and operational communities on defining essential space environment quantities (ESEQs) linked to impacts and/or utilized in operations, that can be derived from observations and simulation outputs. ESEQs are utilized for assessment of space environment modeling capabilities and tracking progress over time. CCMC is developing, maintaining, and expanding infrastructure for model validation projects organized by International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT), including Forecasting Methods Scoreboards for pre-event ensemble forecasts, evaluation suites based of historic time intervals, and interactive archives of evaluation results. The presentation will overview emerging model validation campaigns supported by CCMC and on-going efforts to establish shared environment for collaborative evaluations and improvements.