The Distribution Function of the Average Iron Charge State at 1 AU: From a Bimodal Wind to ICME Identification

Larrodera, Carlos; Cid, C.

doi:10.1007/s11207-020-01727-8

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“…For the first SODA release, we solely investigated ICME events mentioned in the R&C catalogue. Even though this list has a long comprehensive history, there are still events missing, which are cited in other sources (Nieves-Chinchilla et al, 2018;Larrodera and Cid, 2020;Möstl et al, 2020). Based on a careful unification, the number of samples of solar events could be increased (see Larrodera and Temmer, 2024).…”

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SODA - a tool to predict storm induced orbit decays for low Earth orbiting satellites

Krauss,

Drescher,

Temmer

et al. 2024

J. Space Weather Space Clim.

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Due to the rapidly increasing technological progress in the last decades, the issue of space weather and its influences on our everyday life gains more and more importance. Today, satellite-based navigation plays a key role in aviation, logistics and transportation systems. With the strong rise of the current solar cycle 25 the number and intensity of solar eruptions increased. The forecasting tool SODA (Satellite Orbit DecAy) is based on an interdisciplinary analysis of space geodetic observations and solar wind in situ measurements. It predicts the effect of coronal mass ejections from their in-situ measured counterparts (ICME) on the altitude of low Earth orbiting satellites at 490 km with a lead time of about 20 hours. Additionally, it classifies the severeness of the expected geomagnetic storm in the form of the Space Weather G–scale from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). For the establishment and validation of SODA, we examined 360 ICME events over a period of 21 years. Appropriated variations in the thermospheric neutral mass density, were derived mainly from measurements of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission. Related changes in the interplanetary magnetic field component Bz were investigated from real-time measurements using data from spacecraft located at the Lagrange point L1. The analysis of the ICME induced orbit decays and the interplanetary magnetic field showed a strong correlation as well as a time delay between the ICME and the associated thermospheric response. The derived results are implemented in the real- forecasting tool SODA, which integrated in the Space Safety Program Ionospheric Weather Expert Service Center; I.161 of the Space Agency (ESA).

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