Summary of the plenary sessions at European Space Weather Week 15: space weather users and service providers working together now and in the future

Bingham, Suzy; Murray, Sophie A.; Guerrero, Antonio José Moreno; Glover, Alexi; Thorn, Peter

doi:10.1051/swsc/2019031

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“…The strong solar flare events in early September 2017, the subsequent CMEs, the solar radiation storms and finally the geomagnetic storms (e.g., Redmon et al, 2018;Dimmock et al, 2019;Piersanti et al, 2019;Bingham, Suzy et al, 2019;Soni et al, 2020) provided a good case study of a complex space weather event for students to study in this practical exercise. Further, many realworld impacts of space weather during this period have been documented (e.g., Redmon et al, 2018;Gonzalez-Esparza et al, 2018;Clilverd et al, 2018;Berdermann et al, 2018;Linty et al, 2018;Yasyukevich et al, 2018;Dimmock et al, 2019;Frissell et al, 2019;Sato et al, 2019;Simpson, Fiona and Bahr, Karsten, 2020;Simpson and Bahr, 2021).…”

Section: The 4-9 September 2017 Periodmentioning

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RMIT University’s practical space weather prediction laboratory

Carter¹,

Iles²,

Raju³

et al. 2022

J. Space Weather Space Clim.

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Space weather is a key component in the daily operation of many technological systems and applications; including large-scale power grids, high-frequency radio systems and satellite systems. As the international space sector continues to boom, accessible space weather products, tools and education are increasingly important to ensure that space actors (both old and new) are equipped with the knowledge of how space weather influences their activities and applications. At RMIT University, the initiative was taken to develop a Space Weather Prediction Laboratory exercise for students as part of its new offering of a Bachelor Degree in Space Science in 2020. This new Space Weather Prediction Lab exercise is offered as part of an undergraduate course on `Space Exploration', which has a diverse student in-take, including students with no background in physics; a key detail in the design of the Lab. The aims of the Space Weather Prediction Lab were to: (1) Provide a short and intense introduction to the near-Earth space environment and its impact on various human technologies; (2) Give students `hands-on' training in data analysis, interpretation and communication; and (3) Create an immersive space science experience for students that encourages learning, scientific transparency and teamwork. The format of the lab that was developed can be easily scaled in difficulty to suit the students' technical level, either by including more/less space weather datasets in the analysis or by analyzing more/less complicated space weather events. The details of the Space Weather Prediction Lab developed and taught at RMIT in 2020, in both face-to-face and online formats, are presented.

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Section: The 4-9 September 2017 Periodmentioning

confidence: 99%

RMIT University’s practical space weather prediction laboratory

Carter¹,

Iles²,

Raju³

et al. 2022

J. Space Weather Space Clim.

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“…Prediction of solar eruptive events, such as flares and CMEs, has recently evolved from a tool to test our understanding of the processes leading the evolution of solar magnetic regions into a societal need to both prevent and mitigate the potentials of damage to modern technologies due to space weather events (see, e.g., Bonadonna et al 2017;Mann et al 2018;Bingham et al 2019;Opgenoorth et al 2019;Plainaki et al 2020, and references therein). Therefore, the literature is rich in flareprediction methods applied to a wide range of observations of ARs (see, e.g.…”

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Comparative case study of two methods to assess the eruptive potential of selected active regions

Zuccarello¹,

Ermolli²,

Korsós³

et al. 2021

Res. Astron. Astrophys.

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Solar eruptive events, like flares and coronal mass ejections, are characterized by the rapid release of energy that can give rise to emission of radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and to an abrupt significant increase in the kinetic energy of particles. These energetic phenomena can have important effects on the space weather conditions and therefore it is necessary to understand their origin, in particular, what is the eruptive potential of an active region (AR). In these case studies, we compare two distinct methods that were used in previous works to investigate the variations of some characteristic physical parameters during the pre-flare states of flaring ARs. These methods consider: i) the magnetic flux evolution and magnetic helicity accumulation, and ii) the fractal and multi-fractal properties of flux concentrations in ARs. Our comparative analysisis based on time series of photospheric data obtained bythe Solar Dynamics Observatory between March 2011 and June 2013. We selected two distinct samples of ARs: one is distinguished by the occurrence of more energetic M- and X-class flare events, that may have a rapid effect on not just the near-Earth space, but also on the terrestrial environment; the second is characterized by no-flares or having just a few C- and B-class flares. We foundthat the two tested methods complement each other in their ability to assess the eruptive potentials of ARs and could be employed to identify ARs prone to flaring activity. Based on the presented case study, we suggest that using a combination of different methods may aid to identify more reliably the eruptive potentials of ARs and help to better understand the pre-flare states.

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“…Prediction of solar eruptive events, such as flares and CMEs, has recently evolved from a tool to test our understanding of the processes leading the evolution of solar magnetic regions into a societal need to both prevent and mitigate the potentials of damage to modern technologies due to Space Weather events (see, e.g., Bonadonna et al 2017;Mann et al 2018;Bingham et al 2019;Opgenoorth et al 2019;Plainaki et al 2020, and references therein). Therefore, the literature is rich in flare-prediction methods applied to a wide range of observations of ARs (see, e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative case study of two methods to assess the eruptive potential of selected active regions

Zuccarello,

Ermolli,

Korsos

et al. 2021

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Solar eruptive events, like flares and coronal mass ejections, are characterized by the rapid release of energy that can give rise to emission of radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and to an abrupt significant increase in the kinetic energy of particles.These energetic phenomena can have important effects on the Space Weather conditions and therefore it is necessary to understand their origin, in particular, what is the eruptive potential of an active region (AR). In these case studies, we compare two distinct methods that were used in previous works to investigate the variations of some characteristic physical parameters during the pre-flare states of flaring ARs. These methods consider: i) the magnetic flux evolution and the magnetic helicity accumulation, and ii) the fractal and multi-fractal properties of flux concentrations in ARs. Our comparative analysis is based on time series of photospheric data obtained by the Solar Dynamics Observatory between March 2011 and June 2013. We selected two distinct samples of ARs: one is distinguished by the occurrence of more energetic M-and X-class flare events, that may have a rapid effect on not just the near-Earth space, but also on the terrestrial environment; the second is characterized by no-flares or having just few C-and B-class flares. We found that the two tested methods complement each other in their ability to assess the eruptive potentials of ARs and could be employed to identify ARs

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Summary of the plenary sessions at European Space Weather Week 15: space weather users and service providers working together now and in the future

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

RMIT University’s practical space weather prediction laboratory

RMIT University’s practical space weather prediction laboratory

Comparative case study of two methods to assess the eruptive potential of selected active regions

Comparative case study of two methods to assess the eruptive potential of selected active regions

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