SH23A-2419
Solar Cycle 24 – A GOES Space Environment Monitor Perspective
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Daniel C Wilkinson, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Margaret Tilton, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstract:
Our local star has had time for around 400 million solar activity cycles, but, the official tally only started 260 years ago when it was wisely decided to start with number one. Here at cycle 24 we have ways to observe solar activity effects that Richard Carrington never dreamed of. NOAA was an early adopter of space weather monitoring via satellite when the SMS-GOES mission began in 1974. This presentation uses those historical data to compare cycle 24 with the two preceding cycles. A variety of other space weather data and indices are thrown in for good measure.
