Sentences with phrase «of space weather»

These long - term observations of the sun are intended to improve the accuracy of space weather forecasts.

It seems that as much as one - fifth of this space weather can not be blamed on the sun after all.

The field of space weather has seen a rapid increase in research activity in recent years, and associated large scientific advances.

Now it seems that a wild bout of space weather may be to blame.

In 2010 the National Science Foundation teamed up with the University of Michigan to create the first CubeSat with any scientific purpose: studying the effect of space weather on radio transmissions or GPS.

In a study published Jan. 30, 2017, in Space Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in space.

University of Warwick researcher Professor Sandra Chapman concluded: «By constructing a network, we quantify all the rich and detailed evolution of a space weather event in space and time.

In view of future missions to the outer Solar System, an accurate identification of the space weather conditions around a planet can contribute significantly in the estimation of the water abundances in the planetary atmospheres and their long - and short - term variability.

Sharp and localized differences (or gradients) in the density of the ionosphere also contribute significantly to the effects of space weather on satellite communication and navigation.

(b) Observational study of space weather using the Solar Magnetic Activity Research Telescope (SMART) and the international ground - based solar observation network (CHAIN).

«First sightings of solar flare phenomena confirm 3 - D models of space weather.»

This week, members of the Science and Technical Subcommittee heard about some of the potential economic impacts of space weather.

While solar physicists refine their forecasting techniques, some people are just getting acclimated to the concept of space weather.

DSCOVR is a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Air Force with the primary objective of maintaining the nation's real - time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA.

With more than 20 optical and radio wave instruments available, Sondrestrom research efforts have improved our understanding of space weather by tracking solar flares ejected from the Sun, solar storms and other phenomena that can alter the upper atmosphere.

Outside hot coronal loops, there are cool, dark regions called filaments, which can erupt and become a key source of space weather when the sun is active.

Cosmic rays, which are accelerated toward Earth by distant supernova explosions and other violent events, are an important form of space weather.

British astronomer Richard Carrington noted the coincidence (but did not claim a direct connection) between the auroras and a solar flare he had observed the day before, thus prefiguring the discipline of space weather research.

... thus prefiguring the discipline of space weather research.

«To protect our astronauts on Mars in the future, we need to continue to provide this type of space weather monitoring there.»

Taylor and his collaborator, postdoc Mahesh Anand, named the mineral hapkeite after physicist Bruce Hapke, who first described the dramatic potential of space weathering in 1973.

This composite image shows a coronal mass ejection, a type of space weather linked to solar energetic particles, as seen from two space - based solar observatories and one ground - based instrument.

Earlier this month, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order mandating that the U.S. government «mitigate the effects of geomagnetic disturbances on the electrical power grid» and «ensure the timely redistribution of space weather alerts.»

This means that in the future we can compare hundreds of space weather events and see how they differ and what they have in common - just as businesses seek to categorise their thousands of customers to find out what goods and services they want.

This is a kind of space weather event where the magnetic fields surrounding Earth compress and release.

«New solar telescope peers deep into the sun to track the origins of space weather.»

«In terms of space weather forecasting, we're where meteorologists were in the 1950s.

Forecasters of space weather can use the STEREO spacecraft to preview the solar activity that our planet will face in the coming days.

Whereas knowledge of space weather conditions at different planetary systems is a requisite for future mission planning, the scientific data to be obtained by these missions are going to provide in turn an important feedback for interdisciplinary science in the field of planetary space weather.

It can be considered therefore as an evident manifestation of space weather in the Saturnian system.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).

The comprehensive payload of the BEPI COLOMBO mission includes, besides the fields and particles sensors, also a radiation monitor (BERM), and a Sun X-Rays and SEP monitor (SIXS), which will both allow to have a monitoring service of the space weather conditions, possibly critical at Mercury's orbit.

It is clear that the weather and climate community can benefit from this via better representation of space weather effects and their associated impacts on the Earth's atmosphere.

The DSCOVR data will also be used to drive the next generation of space weather models, allowing forecasters to specify where on Earth the storm conditions will be at their worst,» said Doug Biesecker, DSCOVR program scientist at SWPC.

Solar astronomers use NSO's facilities to explore fundamental properties of the Sun, and to examine the causes of solar eruptions, coronal mass ejections, and other drivers of space weather that could inflict potentially devastating societal and economic impacts on our nation's space assets, power grid, and communication systems.

Solar wind also affects the surfaces of Mercury, Moon, and asteroids in the form of space weathering [13] Because they do not have any substantial atmosphere, solar wind ions hit their surface materials and either alter the atomic structure of the materials or form a thin coating containing submicroscopic (or nanophase) metallic iron particles.

In this activity students compare the annual sunspot counts against satellite re-entries to explore the practical consequences of space weather.

The GPS data, which dates from December 2000, fill a hole in studies of space weather, the complex interplay of Earth's magnetic field with bombarding radiation from cosmic rays and the sun.

Therefore it is necessary to investigate the impact of space weather / climate on long - term trends in the upper atmosphere - ionosphere system.

The concept of space weather was advanced to describe the changing conditions in the Sun - Earth region of the solar system.

The holes are important to our understanding of space weather, as they are the source of a high - speed wind of solar particles that streams off the sun some three times faster than the slower wind elsewhere.