Space weather services.

 

We focus on forecasting of solar wind high speed streams associated with coronal holes on the Sun - extended dark regions, where plasma particles can escape along the open magnetic field from the solar surface into interplanetary space, leaving a ‘hole’ in the solar corona. Such forecasts are important as solar wind high-speed streams cause recurrent geomagnetic storms and background solar wind speed is important parameter for modeling CME transit times and arrival speeds at Earth. We also develop advanced forecasting techniques of the solar radio flux at F10.7 cm and F30 cm, which is required by most models characterizing the state of the upper Earth atmosphere to specify satellite orbits, re-entry services, collision avoidance maneuvers and modeling of space debris evolution. And we are working on solar activity, solar cycle, geomagnetic storm and polar aurora predictions.