Sentences with phrase «space weather forecasters»

In Sept. 2017, the quiet sun surprised space weather forecasters with a sudden outburst of explosive activity.

«For the first time, space weather forecasters now have models and tools for predicting how a CME is released from the sun, accelerated out into the solar wind, and ultimately ends up colliding with Earth's magnetosphere creating the geomagnetic storms that impact so many technologies and systems,» says Rodney Viereck of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Environment Center.

Not exact matches

Forecasters still struggle to predict this space weather, and scientists have yet to understand its subtleties.

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

According to NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, Kansas will be 4 degrees warmer in winter without Arctic ice, which regularly generates cold air masses that flow southward into the U.S. (You've probably heard weather forecasters say the following hundreds of times: People in the middle part of the country had better button up.

Gallagher, who used to compile solar - activity warnings for NASA, says the findings mean that space - weather forecasters need to watch high - latitude ejections more carefully.