| CCOR-1 Coronagraph |
Imagery from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) instruments will be used by the SWPC Forecast Office to characterize activity in the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere known as the corona. This includes monitoring data for transient events like coronal mass ejections (CMEs), as well as monitoring the impacts the corona has on the steady stream of plasma, referred to as the solar wind, emanating from the Sun. Ultimately, information derived from CCOR images will be used as inputs to the WSA-Enlil model to forecast the impacts of CMEs and the solar wind on Earth. |
| GONG Imagery |
| H-alpha | Magnetogram | 677nm | | | | | | Network | | | | | El Teide | | | | | Cerro Tololo | | | | | Big Bear | | | | | Mauna Loa | | | | | Learmonth | | | | | Udaipur |
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| ICAO Space Weather Advisories Experimental Information |
ICAO Space Weather Advisories Experimental Information |
| Products Overview |
Products Overview |
| Solar Cycle Progression Update (Experimental Interactive Charts) |
Updated solar cycle charts displaying new 2024 prediction for solar-cycle 25. Running in Highcharts
Just as there is space weather, there is also space climate. The magnetic activity of the Sun waxes and wanes in a perpetual cycle that repeats itself approximately every 11 years. Solar storms and related space weather hazards become more frequent and more severe during the peak of each cycle, a period that is known as Solar Maximum. There have been 24 complete solar cycles since astronomers began numbering them in the eighteenth century based on telescopic observations of sunspots. We are now in Solar Cycle 25, which began in December, 2019.
Despite the striking regularity of the Solar Cycle, no two cycles are the same; some are stronger than others. In 2019 an international panel was convened to predict the strength and timing of Solar Cycle 25. The experimental product presented here provides an update to the 2019 Panel prediction, taking into account the latest observational data. An updated prediction for the strength and timing of Solar Cycle 25 will be issued here with each passing month, as new monthly sunspot data becomes available. |
| Solar Cycle Progression Updated Prediction (Experimental) |
Just as there is space weather, there is also space climate. The magnetic activity of the Sun waxes and wanes in a perpetual cycle that repeats itself approximately every 11 years. Solar storms and related space weather hazards become more frequent and more severe during the peak of each cycle, a period that is known as Solar Maximum. There have been 24 complete solar cycles since astronomers began numbering them in the eighteenth century based on telescopic observations of sunspots. We are now in Solar Cycle 25, which began in December, 2019.
Despite the striking regularity of the Solar Cycle, no two cycles are the same; some are stronger than others. In 2019 an international panel was convened to predict the strength and timing of Solar Cycle 25. The experimental product presented here provides an update to the 2019 Panel prediction, taking into account the latest observational data. An updated prediction for the strength and timing of Solar Cycle 25 will be issued here with each passing month, as new monthly sunspot data becomes available. |