Status of the Polar Engineering Development Center's (PEDC) Open-Closed Boundary Synoptic Nowcast
Abstract
We present the most recent Polar Engineering Development Center (PEDC) developments, specifically the first magnetic-field open-closed boundary (OCB) determination scheme. This scheme is implemented in "near real time" and utilizes data from an array of fluxgate magnetometers that are distributed across the high Antarctic plateau, as per Urban et al. [2012]. This OCB determination enables a high-latitude, synoptic measure of space weather variability that provides for more regional determinations of particle precipitation and related impacts. This methodology therefore supplements exciting "index-based" or empically-based space weather nowcasts currently in use.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AGUFMSM31B2626G
- Keywords:
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- 2704 Auroral phenomena;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 2776 Polar cap phenomena;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 2794 Instruments and techniques;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS