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A geomagnetic storm, also known as a magnetic storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave. The disturbance that drives the magnetic storm may be a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) or (much less severely) a corotating interaction region (CIR), a high-speed stream of solar wind originating ...
Ionospheric storms are storms which contain varying densities [1] of energised electrons in the ionosphere as produced from the Sun. Ionospheric storms are caused by geomagnetic storms. [2] They are categorised into positive and negative storms, where positive storms have a high density of electrons and negative storms contain a lower density ...
Geomagnetic storms can have an impact on infrastructure in near-Earth orbit and on Earth’s surface, potentially disrupting communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and ...
This is the third geomagnetic storm to reach G4 status during the current 11-year solar cycle, which began in 2019, officials said.
Geomagnetic storms occasionally damage electronic components on spacecraft. Miniaturization and digitization of electronics and logic circuits have made satellites more vulnerable to radiation, as the total electric charge in these circuits is now small enough so as to be comparable with the charge of incoming ions.
G1 geomagnetic storms are the least severe, while G5 storms are the most severe. A G4 geomagnetic storm is considered "severe" and may have the following effects, as listed by the NOAA Space ...
The NOAA G-scale describes the significance of effects of a geomagnetic storm to the public and those affected by the space environment. It is directly derived from the K p-scale, where G1 is the weakest storm classification (corresponding to a K p value of 5) and G5 is the strongest (corresponding to a K p value of 9). [7]