The Aurora Borealis
Outline How do we define space weather? How do we observe it? What drives it (solar activity and solar phenomena)? Which are the impacts on: the atmosphere.
ACTIVITY ON THE SUN: Prominences Sunspots Solar Flares CME’s – Coronal Mass Ejections Solar Wind Space Weather.
Study of Galactic Cosmic Rays at high cut- off rigidity during solar cycle 23 Partha Chowdhury 1 and B.N. Dwivedi 2 1 Department of Physics, University.
Bellwork What two properties effect the force of gravity?
The Importance of Sub-surface Magnetic Field Structure and Evolution George H. Fisher SSL, UC Berkeley Shine Meeting 2005.
Magnetic fields in the photosphere and heliosphere: structure, statistical parameters, turbulent state Valentyna I. Abramenko Big Bear Solar Observatory.
Page 1SDO System Requirements Review/System Concept Review (SRR/SCR) – April 8-10, 2003 Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Advanced Technology Center.
A particularly obvious example of daily changing background noise level Constructing the BEST High-Resolution Synoptic Maps from MDI J.T. Hoeksema, Y.
The Magnetic Connection Between the Sun’s Corona and Convective Interior W.P. Abbett Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley Nov. 2007, Rice Univ. P & A.
The Sun Chapter 10. The Sun - Our Star “Average” star Made entirely of gas –too hot for liquids or solids Surface temp = 5000 K Center temp = 10 million.
Coronal radiation belts? H. S. Hudson Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley Elliot (1973) cartoon, from hhudson/cartoons