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Carrington Class Solar Events and How to Recognize Them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2017

C. T. Russell ,
J. G. Luhmann  and
P. Riley
C. T. Russell
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA90095 e-mail: dr_russell@igpp.ucla.edu; ctrussell@igpp.ucla.edu
J. G. Luhmann
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA94720 e-mail: jgluhman@ssl.berkeley.edu
P. Riley
Affiliation:
Predictive Science, San Diego, CA, USA92121 e-mail: pete@predsci.com
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Abstract

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The so-called Carrington Event on September 1, 1859, is clearly the solar outburst that brought the realization to the inhabitants of Earth that weather existed in space, and that space weather was important to the rapidly developing technological infrastructure on Earth. It is important to understand not only how space weather affects our technological systems, but like the case of atmospheric weather, the possible intensity of such weather, the frequency of extreme events, and how to predict them. This paper reviews what we know about one class of extreme space weather events, the superfast arrival events, how best to compare them given our limited diagnostics in past events and even at the current time, and suggests a direction for progress in this field.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S328: Living Around Active Stars , October 2016 , pp. 204 - 210
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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