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geomagnetic storm since the early afternoon of 01.03.

Triggered

Source: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

by a Coronal Hole a solar wind stream, the earth's magnetic field during the early morning hours of 1 Taken in March. Since a G2 class geomagnetic storm is in progress. In high-latitude auroras can be observed.

What does G2-Class?

Power systems: high- latitude power systems may experience voltage alarms, long-duration storms may cause transformer damage. (power supply at high latitudes may be disturbed and transformers can be damaged if this lasts longer)

Spacecraft operations: corrective actions to orientation may be required by ground control, possible changes in drag affect orbit predictions. (aircraft that are flying over the polar caps diverted to protect passengers and crew)

Other systems: HF radio propagation can fade at higher latitudes, and aurora has been seen as low as New York and Idaho (typically 55 ° geomagnetic lat) **. (interference to radio communications and auroras to New York possible) Full details HERE and explanations HERE

The comment Stephanie (one of our readers), it is worth it here adjust to all, since He beautifully describes the background. Thank you Stephan: QUOTE:

KP6 also a major geomagnetic storm.
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

this one is, however anderst than what we have bobachtet. must go back a little further. So far we have of eruptions, flares, caused shock waves (CME) observed in the creation, on the way to the magnetic field and its effects.

The xclass on which we reported in detail later. trigger for the current storm is not an explosive event, but a so-called coronal hole. These areas of sunrays is a term from current to plasma density over days or weeks in more impressive. D ies produced a spiral structure as a rotating lawn sprinkler. This "solar storm" is moving much slower than a CME because its cause is no explosion.

flies at the moment the earth in its orbit precisely through the center of such a solar storm, very nice to see here: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/StreamArgumentServlet? cygnetInstanceId = 23789019 & argumentId = 1

So much for the explanation why we have a respectable geosturm have and did not observe any speeding toward Earth cme. The CME on the picture above was yes, as has been previously reported in the empty space.

This graphic form is the experimental data measured from the stereosateliten to a 3d model of the inner solar system and then this 2d presentations on display on the screen.
is not particularly graphic but necessary.

The spiral is left, the top view of the level which our solar system is. The colored stripes represent partikeelströme is coming from the sun. The colors indicate the density.

The "Tortenauschnitt" in the middle is a cut that is perpendicular to the first run picture. there you can see whether a particle flow above, below or directly at this level moves. move all these colored fields with 200-600 km / s for rectilinear path of the sun outside.

In this way you can see where such a cloud is in, in relation to the earth (yellow dot) and forms the center of the Somme. The right picture is not necessary to make to get an idea about the direction of pull of the clouds, but the particle density shows exactly Earth distance seen from the sun. All three images show the earth in the midst of a color range which means that we are in the midst of this cloud and the NOAA charts show the effects of the interaction of the solar wind magnetic field on us.

not simply a process 3d 2d shown to describe with words .. I hope you make it with the help of this document, the representation to interpret itself.

My interpretation:
The earth was at the time of presentation, 4:40 UT = 5:40 mez already close to the edge of the cloud and in the process they should be leaving. the magnet noaa charts already show (0:30 GMT) a decrease in the kp value. So the effects are already on the fade. The original website is here:

http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/

There you will find a variety of visualization of the solar data. The Linked
I 3d model can be found under the tab heliosphere then the arrow to the left until you see the "spiral" as tunbnail.
you can enter the date for the presentation of a particular moment to see or simply create a film which then shows the development of a whole month, up to 5 days in the future! which of course is only an estimation and not clairvoyance :-).

everything is self-explanatory, however complex. One can spend hours there and studying all the different aspects.

is also interesting in the presentation of the ionosphere, the tension just by the solar wind is transferred into our atmosphere, as representation of the voltage level projected on a globe illustration, so find out just how much is induced voltage, or heating, etc. always freiwählbarem date or as a film over an adjustable period.