Sunday, June 30, 2024

Solar Wind Predictions

So, I wanted to get the CME modelling from a particular date. This is the the hot gas from the outer layer of the Sun's atmosphere that has been violently dumped into space, travelling outwards towards the Earth, causing geomagnetic storms. You get this by making a data request in this WSA-Enlil Solar Wind Prediction. The data comes in archives for the date range, within which there are individual modellings, each containing jpgs and an mpg movie. At the start, it is better to select CME only and uncheck Background, unless you want a lot of undramatic data. 
You cannot get this on archive.org of the space weather enthusiasts dashboard, which unpredictably has videos from random dates, and you cannot download the videos directly off the site, which would have been muuch more convenient. The ESA version is EUHFORIA, which you can download directly from here, at least current ones. 



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