SH41F:
Characteristics, Consequences, and Predictabilities of Large Solar Storms I


Session ID#: 10662

Session Description:
Predicting solar storms and their geomagnetic effects is still a daunting task for space physicists. On the other hand, recent studies have demonstrated that short-term (hours to days) forecasting of space weather is viable – thanks to remote sensing of the Sun and in-situ measurements at Earth orbits from multiple spacecraft, e.g., SOHO, STEREO A/B, SDO, ACE, Wind, and DSCOVR. Observations from these spacecraft can contribute significantly to our understanding of the space weather drivers and can help make realistic predictions of space weather possible, especially when combined with current state-of-art numerical simulations. This special session will focus on characteristics and consequences of large solar storms. Studies of large storm events, including the anecdotal 1859 Carrington event, using theories, numerical simulations, observations, and/or their combination are all invited.
Primary Convener:  Chin-Chun Wu, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Kan Liou, JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, Simon P Plunkett, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States and Shi Tsan Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs:  Shi Tsan Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Russell A. Howard, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yufen Zhou, State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;, Beijing, China

Cross-Listed:
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2139 Interplanetary shocks [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2441 Ionospheric storms [IONOSPHERE]
2788 Magnetic storms and substorms [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Extreme Magnetic Storms: Their Characteristics and Possible Consequences for Humanity (Invited) (64005)
Barbara Joan Falkowski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Bruce Tsurutani, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Gurbax Singh Lakhina, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), Navi Mumbai, India, Yue Deng, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States and Anthony J Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Simulations and Characteristics of Large Solar Events Propagating Throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond (Invited) (Invited) (65751)
Devrie S Intriligator1, Wei Sun1, Thomas R Detman1, Murray Dryer, Ph.D.1, James Intriligator1, Charles S Deehr2, William R Webber3, George Gloeckler4 and William James Miller1, (1)Carmel Research Center, Inc., Space Plasma Laboratory, Santa Monica, CA, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Capabilities of a Global 3D MHD Model for Monitoring Extremely Fast CMEs (81839)
Simon P Plunkett1, Chin-Chun Wu1, Kan Liou2, Dennis G Socker3, Shi Tsan Wu4 and Yi-Ming Wang5, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
Type II Radio Bursts as Indicators of Space Weather Drivers (Invited) (64558)
Nat Gopalswamy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Interpretation of the 12 May 2012 ground level enhancement event (73778)
Murray Dryer, Ph.D., Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Chin-Chun Wu, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Kan Liou, JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and Shi Tsan Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Time Variations in Forecasts and Occurrences of Large Solar Energetic Particle Events (Invited) (61856)
Stephen W Kahler, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Strong Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure Pulses during Solar Cycle 23 and Their Impacts on Geosynchronous Magnetic Fields (71672)
Pingbing Zuo, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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