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Current Space Weather
This page provides the information of the current and the most recent parameters related to the space weather. All the data in one place and with well organized interface provides a very efficient and comprehensive representation of the current space weather.
SUN | SOLAR WIND | MAGNETOSPHERE
Rotation Number:
2616
Sunspot Number:
82
X-Ray Flux Count
4.2 W/m^2
Solar Wind Velocity
354 km/sec
Magnetspheric Radius
11.2 Re
Cross Polar Potential
256 KV
The Sun is imaged with different filters, allowing lights of different frequencies, to pass and form the image. Different frequencies carry information from different dephts of the solar corona.
The current image of the Sun at 304 A.
The current image of the Sun at 131 A.
The current image of the Sun at 193 A.
The source of all Space Weather is the Sun and its activities. Therefore the following solar parameters, which act as the drivers for the space weather and immense important for understanding the existing weather and the extent of its potential effects
The most recent image of the Solar Corona provided by Coronagraph
SUNSPOT NUMBER
Sunspots are the relatively cooler dark areas on the Sun's surface
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F10.7
This is the total solar flux at the 10.7 cm wavelength
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The following parameters represent the particle or wave emissions. They can directly affect the earth's atmosphere and ionosphere from within a few minutes to few hours interval from the time of their occurrences.r daily and weekly values are availavbe in the plots.
SOLAR PROTON FLUX
The amount of energetic particles and radiation emissions from the Sun
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- PFU: Proton Flux Unit;
- 1 PFU = 1 proton/ (cm² s sr)
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- PFU: Proton Flux Unit;
- 1 PFU = 1 proton/ (cm² s sr)
SOLAR X-RAY FLUX
The amount of energetic particles and radiation emissions from the Sun
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X-Ray Flux Unit is W/m^2
X-Ray flux > 10^-4 : Class X flare
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X-Ray Flux Unit is W/m^2
X-Ray flux > 10^-4 : Class X flare
SOLAR ELECTRON FLUX
The amount of energetic particles and radiation emissions from the Sun
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- EFU: Electron Flux Unit;
- 1 EFU = 1 Electron/ (cm² s sr)
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The solar winds are the perennial flow of charged particles (plasma) emitted from the Sun. These hot plasma fills up the interplanetary space and flow downstream towards the edge of the heliosphere. The wind parameters are measured at a location near to the earth, mostly at the Lagrangian point, L1.
SOLAR WIND VELOCITY
The solar wind flows through interplanetary space with velocities of few hundreds of kmps
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SOLAR WIND DENSITY
Solar wind is mostly constituted by Hydrogen ions with varying density
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SOLAR WIND TEMPERATURE
Ion temperature of the solar wind particles represents their average kinetic energy
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The interplanetary magnetic field fills up the interplanetary space. These magnetic fields have their sources at the Sun and is carried into the interplanetary space by the hot plasma of the solar wind which remians frozen with it. These fields are measured with respect to a geocentric reference frame GSE.
IMF Bz
It is the strength and orientation of Bz that determines the disruption in magnetosphere
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IMF Bx
It is the X component of the IMF when measured in GSE reference.
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IMF By
It is the Y component of the IMF when measured in GSE reference.
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The derived parameters tells a lot about the behaviour of the Solar Wind. The Parker's angle and clock angle provides the relative orientation of the IMF with respect to the earth and its orbit. The ram pressure reveals the strength of the wind to disrupt the benign magnetospheric nature while the distribution of the fast and slow solar wind let us understand the dominant region of the sun that emits the wind.
PARKER'S AND CLOCK ANGLES
The Parkers angle is the angle made by the solar with the earth's orbit.
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RAM PRESSURE
Ram pressure is the thrusht provided by the solar wind on the magnetospheric surface.
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FAST/SLOW WIND DISTRIBUTION
Slow and fast winds are dominant during high and low activity periods respectively
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The magnetosphere acts as a shield that rpotects Earth from the disruptions of the solar wind. However, the magnetospheric features change with the variation of the solar wind emitted from the Sun. Here we present the most salient features of the magnetosphere that are influenced by the impinging solar wind and the associated IMF.
MAGNETOSPHERIC RADIUS
The radial periphery of the magnetosphere measured in Re.
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POLAR CAP POTENTIAL
The electric potential developed across the polar cap due to magnetospheric convection
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CLOCK ANGLE
Although clock angle is an IMF parameter, it determines many magnetospheric conditions
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There are different states of the geomagnetic fields which are determined by various direct and proxy indices. These indices are determined from measurements done on ground or obtained through various models.
Ae
Although Ae is an ionospheric current, it reveals various magnetospheric conditions
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PLASMA SHEET STATE
The Plasma sheet state defines various factors including the ring current formation
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GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS
These are the magnetometers data that represents the North geomagnetic fields
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The near-surface geomagnetic fields undergo severe perturbation when space weather event affects the magnetosphere and its elements. This inturn alters the behaviour of the ionosphere and results in geomagnetic storm and substorms.
Dst
Dst is the depreciation of northward geomagnetic field from the nominal value
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Ap
Ap index is the global average of deviations of the midlatitude magnetic field in linear scale
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Kp
Kp index is the global average of deviations of the midlatitude magnetic field in log scale
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Important: Plots are derived at spaceweathersci.com from data available at SWPC. These are for educational purpose only and the values may contain errors.
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