Predictive Space Weather Beyond the Single Spacecraft Solar Wind Monitor
Whitepaper #043 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: space weather applications; basic research. Additional topics: space weather research/operations/research loop; user-need-driven basic space weather research.
by Brandon Burkholder, Burkholder Brandon, Chen Li-jen, Borovsky Joseph, Walsh Brian, Nykyri Katariina, Ma Xuanye, Di Matteo Simone, and Sivadas Nithin
Published onJul 31, 2023
Predictive Space Weather Beyond the Single Spacecraft Solar Wind Monitor
Space weather associated with meso-scale solar wind structures, comparable in size to the magnetosphere, has been largely ignored, as it is the standard to predict the solar wind conditions, based on a single monitor at L1. Future space weather monitoring missions should be adequately equipped to predict the gradients associated with meso-scale solar wind structures, and in advance of L1.
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