Space Weather Modelling and Forecasting

Image Credit: Michael Taylor

My current research focus in this field is on space weather forecasting. I have collaborated with Yannis Daglis and Anastasios Anastasiadis in the Space Research & Technology Group at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, and Dimitris Vassiliadis of West Virginia University to develop NARMAX neural network forecast models of the energetic particle flux in the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

1. Taylor M, Daglis IA, Anastasiadis A, Vassiliadis D (2011) Volterra network modeling of the nonlinear finite-impulse response of the radiation belt flux. American Institute of Physics [Modern Challenges in Nonlinear Plasma Physics] 1320:221-226. doi:10.1063/1.3544328 [Poster]  [arXiv] [post-print] [journal article] [BibTeX]
2. Taylor M, Daglis IA, Anastasiadis A, Vassiliadis D (2010) Identification of nonlinear space weather models of the Van Allen radiation belts using Volterra networks.Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific [9^th International Conference of the Hellenic Astronomical Society] 424:92-98. [Poster] [arXiv] [post-print] [journal article] [BibTeX]

Conference Talks:

1. Taylor M (2009) How well can machines be trained to predict space weather storms? ISARS-NOA Lecture Series National Observatory of Athens (Penteli), Athens, Greece [PPT Talk]