J. Space Weather Space Clim. 3 (2013) A17 DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2013037 Ó I. Tsagouri et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2013 RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Progress in space weather modeling in an operational environment Ioanna Tsagouri1,*, Anna Belehaki1, Nicolas Bergeot2,3, Consuelo Cid4,Ve´ronique Delouille2,3, Tatiana Egorova5, Norbert Jakowski6, Ivan Kutiev7, Andrei Mikhailov8, Marlon Nu´n˜ez9, Marco Pietrella10, Alexander Potapov11, Rami Qahwaji12, Yurdanur Tulunay13, Peter Velinov7, and Ari Viljanen14 1 National Observatory of Athens, P. Penteli, Greece *Corresponding author: e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence, Brussels, Belgium 3 Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium 4 Universidad de Alcala´, Alcala´ de Henares, Spain 5 Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos and World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC), Davos, Switzerland 6 German Aerospace Center, Institute of Communications and Navigation, Neustrelitz, Germany 7 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 8 Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia 9 Universidad de Ma´laga, Ma´laga, Spain 10 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy 11 Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia 12 University of Bradford, Bradford, UK 13 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 14 Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland Received 19 June 2012 / Accepted 10 March 2013 ABSTRACT This paper aims at providing an overview of latest advances in space weather modeling in an operational environment in Europe, including both the introduction of new models and improvements to existing codes and algorithms that address the broad range of space weather’s prediction requirements from the Sun to the Earth.