Enabling API Access to the Space Weather Services at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center

Maksym Petrenko; Chinwe Didigu; Chiu Wiegand; Christopher Light; Darren De Zeeuw; Elana Resnick; Elon Olsson; Jack Wang; Jia Yue; Joycelyn Jones; Katherine Garcia-Sage; Karen Ann Scheiber; Leila Mays; Lutz Rastaetter; Matthew Lesko; Masha Kuznetsova; Michelle Mendoza; Min-Yang Chou; Mostafa El Alaoui; Peter Macneice; Poly Manessis; Rick Mullinix; Sandro Taktakishvili; Sarabjit Bakshi; Tina Tsui; Tyler Schiewe; Yihua Zheng

NASA NTRS · 20240013809

Enabling API Access to the Space Weather Services at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center

Abstract

Over the span of 20 years, the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC, https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov) has been leading a number of community-driven services and applications that provide a free and open access to the cutting-edge space weather and Heliophysics models through a simple web-based interface. CCMC also oversees an open archive of user model simulations and related metadata, maintains space weather-related data streams, curates validation and event datasets, and more. To maximize utility of its complementary services and data holdings, CCMC has been gradually building up an ad-hoc set of interfaces and specifications that facilitate coupling and interconnection within the organization, while also simplifying management and monitoring of the data. As the models continue to grow in maturity and complexity, CCMC is looking to reduce the complexity for its end users by making public some of the internal APIs as well as implementing dedicated interfaces as required by the community. In this presentation, we will overview the current run services at CCMC and will describe our current and near-future efforts in providing interfaces to these services.

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Maksym Petrenko, Chinwe Didigu, Chiu Wiegand, Christopher Light, Darren De Zeeuw, Elana Resnick, Elon Olsson, Jack Wang, Jia Yue, Joycelyn Jones, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Karen Ann Scheiber, Leila Mays, Lutz Rastaetter, Matthew Lesko, Masha Kuznetsova, Michelle Mendoza, Min-Yang Chou, Mostafa El Alaoui, Peter Macneice, Poly Manessis, Rick Mullinix, Sandro Taktakishvili, Sarabjit Bakshi, Tina Tsui, Tyler Schiewe, Yihua Zheng. Enabling API Access to the Space Weather Services at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20240013809

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