IMAGE CREDITS AND SOURCES:
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
M. Rempel, High Altitude Observatory. Big Bear Solar Observatory. For further information on the simulation, see M. Rempel, Numerical sunspot models: Robustness of photospheric velocity and magnetic field structure, Astrophysical Journal 750(1):62, 2012.
Anthia Coster, MIT and Evan Thomas, Virginia Tech.
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
M. Druckmüller, M. Dietzel, S. Habbal, and V. Rušin; available at http://www.predsci.com/corona/jul10eclipse/jul10eclipse.html.
National Research Council, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2013; the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), scheduled for launch in late 2016, will investigate how large-scale patterns in our weather system affect the near-Earth space environment (University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory); see page 23 credit; see page 16 credit; L. Phelps and National Solar Observatory/AURA/NSF.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
NRC, Solar and Space Physics, 2013; NASA
NRC, Solar and Space Physics, 2013.
Central image: Joe Grebowsky, NASA GSFC; surrounding images: Robert Pfaff, NASA/GSFC and Thomas Immel, University of California, Berkeley; “magnetic fields” image adapted from Bryan Brandenburg, http://www.bryanbrandenburg.net.
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