O5: Heliophysics Open Modeling Environment (HOME).  Join HOME

To join HOME click here (https://iswat-cospar.org/form/join-team)

and select O5 overarching activity.

under development

Moderator:

Masha Kuznetsova

Co-Moderators: 

Claudio Corti

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:

  • Establish 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.
  • Address recommendations outlines in HOME community paper (Corti et al, 2026) and Executive Summary (Reiss et al., 2026) on Advancing Heliophysics and Space Weather Modeling Through Open Science.

 

Show/Hide Team O5 Participants

C. Nick Arge (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Mario Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space, UK)
Sean Bruinsma (CNES, The National Centre for Space Studies, Toulouse, FRANCE)
Ronald Caplan (Predictive Science Inc., USA)
Baptiste Cecconi (Observatoire de Paris - PSL, FRANCE)
Min-Yang Chou (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Claudio Corti (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Daniel da Silva (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Lars Daldorff (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Darren De Zeeuw (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Gian Luca Delzanno (LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Sean Elvidge (University of Birmingham, UK)
Shing Fung (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Natalia Ganushkina (University of Michigan, USA)
Katherine Garcia-Sage (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Manolis Georgoulis (JHU/APL, USA)
Janet Green (Space Hazards Applications, USA)
Bernard Jackson (UCSD - University of California San Diego, USA)
Lan Jian (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Vania Jordanova (LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Timothy Kodikara (DLR - German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Masha Kuznetsova (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Lois Landwer (NOAA/SWPC, USA)
Vincent Ledvina (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)
Jon Linker (Predictive Science Inc., USA)
Hanli Liu (UCAR, USA)
Weihao Liu (University of Michigan, USA)
Janet Luhmann (UC Berkeley - University of California Berkeley)
Peter MacNeice (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Prateek Mayank (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
M. Leila Mays (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Piyush Mehta (West Virginia University, USA)
Mark Miesch (CIRES CU Boulder / NOAA SWPC, USA)
Dusan Odstrcil (GMU - George Mason University, USA)
Erika Palmerio (Predictive Science Inc., USA)
Stefaan Poedts (KU Leuven, BELGIUM)
Lutz Rastaetter (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Martin Reiss (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Elana Resnick (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Nishtha Sachdeva (University of Michigan, USA)
Evangelia Samara (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Dibyendu Sur (CUA/NASA/GSFC, USA)
Aleksandre Taktakishvili (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Valeriy Tenishev (NASA/MSFC, USA)
David Themens (University of New Brunswick, CANADA)
Gabor Toth (University of Michigan, USA)
Christine Verbeke (KU Leuven, BELGIUM)
Jack Wang (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Robert Weigel (GMU - George Mason University, USA)
Katie Whitman (NASA/JSC/SRAG - Space Radiation Analysis Group USA)
Chiu Wiegand (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Matthew Young (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Yihua Zheng (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)