Sentences with phrase «cause magnetic storms»
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which cause magnetic storms, can strike even closer to home (see «Shock wave blackout»).
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The magnetic field that creates the sunspots can also trigger large, explosive discharges of plasma, causing solar storms to hit the Earth.
That process causes storms in the magnetic bubble around Earth.
The US NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre in Boulder, Colorado, says: «Although the magnetic field strength of this CME has been fairly high, it hasn't been of the orientation needed to cause strong geomagnetic storming.»
The success of the description of the aurora according to the historical documents allowed the researchers to estimate the strength of the magnetic storm that caused the September 1770 aurora.
Magnetic flutters in the atmosphere, caused by the same storms that create nighttime auroras, manifest as a shimmering synthesized carillon.
Eruptions on the Sun's surface, also called solar storms, trigger geomagnetic storms and this usually causes disturbances globally in the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, which is the region of the atmosphere governed primarily by Earth's magnetic field.
Out in the real world, they are quickly overwhelmed by background noise as minuscule as changes in Earth's magnetic field caused by distant solar storms.
The geomagnetic storm passed within 24 hours or so but, while it was ongoing, the solar particles and magnetic fields caused the release of particles already trapped near Earth.
When this wave of magnetic material washes over the Earth, it interacts with the planet's magnetic fields, causing a geomagnetic storm that can disrupt communications, GPS and the power grid.
Finally, a geomagnetic storm causes the accumulated charges to discharge with sparks that create measurable magnetic pulses and sounds» Mr Laine, who is now a professor emeritus, explained.
WE also know, due to the recent acceleration of the earth's magnetic pole drift, that there is some kind of storm going on in the earth's core, causing a realignment of that huge mass of molten metal.