A SWPC team, ICAO space weather models

Hazel Bain, Ratina Dodani, Mariangel Fedrizzi, Dominic Fuller-Rowell, Kiley Gray, Jeff Johnson, and Ben Rowells, (NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center) spent 12 months developing and then putting into operation a suite of space weather models for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), part of the United Nations. Thanks to the team’s dedication and hard work, the model system became operational in a remarkably short time, serving the international commercial airline industry with enhanced space weather predictions and communications. CIRES/SWPC was the only U.S. contributor to ICAO global space weather framework, and the effort earned praise from other centers and the broader ICAO organization