O5: Heliophysics Open Modeling Environment (HOME)

under development

Moderator:

 TBD

Co-ModeratorS: 

TBD

Advisors:

TBD

Action topics:

 

 

HOME aims to promote the vitality of the modeling community, guide open-science and open-source mandates tailored to the community needs, increase appreciation for the importance of numerical simulations among colleagues and decision makers at funding agencies, and enable coordination and collaboration on all aspects of open science.

Our HOME is uniting and giving voice to all scientists and software engineers with primary expertise in modeling and model-related software, as well as those using models and simulation results in their research. Our HOME:

  • builds consensus and speaks with a unified voice when talking with funding agencies;
  • discusses/reviews/proposes open-science policies and codes-of-conduct related to models;
  • facilitates more modeling representation on the decision-making committees for open science;
  • coordinates efforts to define standards (naming conventions, metadata, licensing, ownership, recognition, modern software engineering techniques, software project management methods, open-science best practices);
  • brings together domain experts, software developers, and system engineers and facilitates communication/education between model developers and model users;
  • serves as a platform for collaborative model development, frequently referred to as community modeling with special focus to build real-time space weather modeling systems focusing on specific space weather goals
  • coordinates with observers to convince agencies to sponsor critical measurements;
  • coordinates public outreach activities related to models.

Maintaining a cross-domain HOME forum for the modeling community will not only facilitate open communication and discussion between model developers and model users, but can also provide a platform for users of the same models to exchange ideas and share their experience. Facilitating communication and mutual assistance between users can be more efficient than discussions between users and developers, and could save some time and effort for model developers. HOME forums could allow users to more easily draft wishlists on specific features they would like to be implemented in specific models. This way, model developers could easily determine the most urgent user needs and act accordingly.

HOME is open to partnership with the Earth sciences, (exo)planetary, and astrophysics communities to address common challenges in the implementation of open science in modeling. HOME also welcomes balanced partnerships with observational data analysis communities, including DASH (Data, Analysis, and Software in Heliophysics, https://dash.heliophysics.net) and IHDEA (International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance, https://ihdea.net).

Actions:

Established Action Teams focused on specific models or groups of models. to provide a platform for users of the same models to exchange ideas and share their experience. Facilitating communication and mutual assistance between users can be more efficient than discussions between users and developers, and could save some time and effort for model developers. HOME forums could allow users to more easily draft wishlists on specific features they would like to be implemented in specific models. This way, model developers could easily determine the most urgent user needs and act accordingly.