Space Weather: Capturing Events and Their Geoeffectiveness

该计划建议发展一个概念，以提高观测空间天气对磁层-电离层系统影响的可能性，并将解决与空间天气现象有关的基本物理过程。这将通过在潜在的破坏性空间天气条件下集中敏感地面设备的操作来实现。通过结合航天器观测分析这些观测结果，SRI可以更好地理解太阳风和磁层之间以及磁层和电离层之间的耦合（通常称为空间天气“地球有效性”）。因此，该提案的总体目标是通过实施该计划的操作阶段和基础研究阶段来观察和分析空间天气地球有效性。该计划的操作阶段旨在提供一个空间天气警报系统，在活动期间通知观测者太阳和空间状况，以便建立适当的地面操作计划。这种非相干散射雷达预警协议的开发和实施是在过去的NSWP资助下建立的。该计划的基础研究阶段旨在通过分析亚暴、风暴和对流湾形式的数据来研究空间天气事件的地球有效性。由于获得的数据集将有利于所有这些主题，预计其结果将有助于当前和未来的一些空间天气研究计划。

ATM-0001653The PI proposes to develop a concept that will improve the possibility of observing the impact of space weather on the magnetosphere-ionosphere system, and that will address fundamental physical processes related to space weather phenomena. This will be done by focusing operations of sensitive ground based equipment to occur during potentially disruptive space weather conditions. By analyzing these observations in conjunction with spacecraft observations, SRI can develop an improved understanding of the coupling between the solar wind and magnetosphere and between the magnetosphere and ionosphere (generally termed space weather "geoeffectiveness"). Thus, the overall objective of the proposal is to observe and analyze space weather geoeffectiveness by implementing an operational phase and a basic research phase to the program. The operational phase of the program is designed to provide a space weather alert system that notifies observers of solar and space conditions during times of activity so that appropriate planning of ground-based operations can be established. The development and implementation of such an alert protocol for the incoherent-scatter radar community was established under past NSWP funding. The basic research phase of the program is designed to study the geoeffectiveness of the space weather event by analyzing data in the form of substorms, storms, and convection bays. As the acquired data sets will benefit all of these topics, it is anticipated that the results will contribute to a number of space weather research programs, present and future.