Hi Wolf,
I'm not sure if I understand your question. If you are looking for
real time solar wind monitoring, you might start here:
http://www.aurorasentry.com
I have assembled a collection of solar, solar wind, and geomagnetic
real time data, originally to forecast and track VHF and UHF radio
reflection from aurora. The site needs updating. I haven't had time
for it in a while.
Of particular interest is the ACE MAG & SWEPAM plot which you can
find on the "Solar Wind & Dst" portion of that site, or directly here:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/MAG_SWEPAM_24h.html
The red "Bz" trace in the top panel is the north-south orientation
of the interplanetary magnetic field. It couples most heavily with
Earth's magnetic field (producing geomagnetic disturbance) when it
is south oriented. Note that there are versions of this plot
available for time spans of 2, 6, or 24 hours, 3 or 7 days.
While on the subject, I never have liked, and still do not, the ever
popular NOAA POES Auroral Activity plots:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html
These have to me proven very unreliable for the intended purpose of
correlating to VHF auroral propagation, but also do not track as
well with intensity of real time auroral disturbances at MF and HF.
Much better I think, but not yet adopted by hams, is OVATION Auroral
Forecast:
http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/
or
OVATION Prime Real-Time:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/ovation_prime/
Unfortunately this one lacks a good map overlay and takes some
practice to read it correctly.
73,
Paul N1BUG
On 01/23/2013 12:24 AM, Dr. Wolf Ostwald wrote:
Now is the critical factor
whether the polarity of the arriving solar wind, developing the
interplanetary mag field , fits the earth mag field or not. becuase if
it does, the influence is by far greater than without it.
Question is, where do i find that info ??
--
Paul Kelley, N1BUG
RFI Committee chair,
Piscataquis Amateur Radio Club
http://www.k1pq.org
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