Nowcasting and Forecasting of the Magnetopause and Bow Shock - A Status Update

There has long been interest in knowing the shape and location of the Earth's magnetopause and of the standing fast-mode bow shock upstream of the Earth's magnetosphere. This quest for knowledge spans both the research and operations arenas. Pertinent to the latter, nowcasting and near-ter...

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Published in:Space Weather 2017-01, Vol.15 (1), p.36-43
Main Authors: Petrinec, S. M., Redmon, R. J., Rastaetter, L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boundaries
bow shock
Earth magnetosphere
Empirical models
Forecasting
Geophysics
Ionosphere
Magnetic fields
Magnetopause
Magnetosphere
Mathematical models
Normal shock waves
Nowcasting
Solar wind
Space weather
Spacecraft
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Summary:There has long been interest in knowing the shape and location of the Earth's magnetopause and of the standing fast-mode bow shock upstream of the Earth's magnetosphere. This quest for knowledge spans both the research and operations arenas. Pertinent to the latter, nowcasting and near-term forecasting are important for determining the extent to which the magnetosphere is compressed or expanded due to the influence of the solar wind bulk plasma and fields and the coupling to other magnetosphere-ionosphere processes with possible effects on assets. This article provides an update to a previous article on the same topic published 15 years earlier, with focus on studies that have been conducted, the current status of nowcasting and forecasting of geophysical boundaries, and future endeavors.
ISSN:1542-7390
1539-4964
1542-7390
DOI:10.1002/2016SW001565