Forecasting the Northern Lights! 2: Kp Index,NOAA Satellites,Coronal Mass Ejections & Coronal Holes скачать в хорошем качестве

Forecasting the Northern Lights! 2: Kp Index,NOAA Satellites,Coronal Mass Ejections & Coronal Holes

I've been chasing the Northern Lights in the Northern US and Southern Canada for 2 decades and have lots of pictures and video to share while I explain, as best I can, everything that I've learned and there's ALOT to cover! In this episode I cover the Kp Index, with a little surprise. I recently traveled about 5 hours north to capture a recent display where the clouds finally departed and allowed me to make some new aurora timelapses. Northern Lights can be triggered by a variety of things, but the two main triggers are Solar wind from a coronal hole facing Earth, or an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). A small armada of solar-watching satellites gather research and up-to-the-minute data on space weather. SOHO, SDO, GOES, ACE and DSCOVR are introduced in this video. I also sneaked in a case study of the 2003 Halloween super geomagnetic storm and show how each of these satellites, and Earth, were affected. I'll be doing more case studies like this in future videos. What's next? STEREO A & B, Perhaps WIND and ULYSSES, maybe. Reading solar wind parameters. Might even squeeze in Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections and a case study of the 2012 superstorm that missed Earth. Or that might go in part 4. Still in the imagination phase on that one. #NorthernLights #Spaceweather #AuroraChasing