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Near-term space weather products transition

E.A. Araujo-Pradere, T.J. Fuller-Rowell, Mihail Codrescu, and Rashid Akmaev

As a part of the collaboration between CIRES and the NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), the ionospheric group has been, and is actively involved in the research and transition to operations of several models of operational importance. In the past, the D-Region Absorption Model, the Storm Time Ionospheric Empirical Correction Model and the US-TEC model (the first data assimilation model at SWPC) have all been successfully transitioned, and now form part of the wealth of tools that SWPC forecaster use to "provide accurate, reliable, and useful solar-terrestrial information" (extracted from SWPC Mission Statement). In this poster, a new set of models, currently in different stages of the transition-to-operations process, is presented. These include the continuous upgrading of US-TEC, the GPS Ionospheric Positioning Correction (GIPC), the US-TEC Short-term Forecast, the Multiregional Toward Global Characterization of the Ionosphere, and the assimilation of new ground-based and occultation data sources.