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This week our Sun causes us to wait for some action to arrive. We have two coronal holes in view this week that will rotate into the Earth-strike zone over the next few days. These will bring some much needed aurora to high latitudes and possibly mid-latitudes during the early part of the week and again round the next weekend, especially since the last solar storm fizzled! In addition, we have several new bright regions on the Earth-facing Sun that are boosting the solar flux up into the low 80s and ensuring marginal radio propagation on the dayside of Earth. These regions are also firing minor flares so that means amatuer radio operators might hear a little noise on the bands. Sadly, these regions will rotate out of view over the next few days, which will drop the solar flux back into the 70s, but it shouldnt be too bad. At least the drop in solar flux will help GPS reception on Earth’s dayside, but reception on earth’s nightside will likely be impacted near dawn and dusk and at high latitudes near aurora once the fast solar wind arrives. Learn the details of the coming fast wind and see what else our Sun has in store!
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For a more in-depth look at the data and images highlighted in this video see these links below.
Solar Imaging and Analysis:
SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/​
Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/​
Flare Analysis: http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest…​
Computer Aided CME Tracking CACTUS: http://www.sidc.oma.be/cactus/out/lat…​
GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xra…​
SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/​
Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/​
GONG magnetic field synoptic movie: https://gong.nso.edu/data/magmap/stan…​
GONG magnetic field synoptic charts: http://gong.nso.edu/data/magmap/​
LMSAL Heliophysics Events HEK http://www.lmsal.com/isolsearch​
Solar Wind:
DISCOVR solar wind: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/rea…​
ACE Solar Wind: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ace…​
NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: https://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/IswaSystem…​
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa…​
Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, Atmosphere:
GOES Magnetometer: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goe…​
Ionosphere D-Region Absorption (DRAP) model: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/d-r…​
Auroral Oval Ovation Products: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aur…​
Global 3-hr Kp index: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/pla…​
Wing Kp index prediction: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/win…​
USGS Ground Magnetometers: http://geomag.usgs.gov/realtime/​
USGS Disturbance Storm-Time (Dst): http://geomag.usgs.gov/realtime/dst/​
NAIRAS Radiation Storm Model: http://sol.spacenvironment.net/raps_o…​
Multi-Purpose Space Environment Sites:
NOAA/SWPC: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov​
SOLARHAM: http://www.solarham.net/index.htm​
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com​
iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html​
Definition of Geomagnetic Storm, Radiation Storm, and Radio Blackout Levels:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/​
None of this would be possible without the hard work and dedication of those who have provided all of this data for public use.
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