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Webinar #32 - Thursday, July 24, 2014
Space Weather: What is it and why should you care?
Rodney Viereck
Director, Space Weather Prediction Testbed
NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center
Boulder, CO
(Biography)
This presentation will include a review of some of
the basics of space weather. Starting with the sun and solar flares and
then moving through the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetosphere, our
speaker, Rodney Viereck will describe how space weather storms are
formed and evolve until they arrive at Earth. The NOAA Space Weather
Prediction Center provides alerts, watches, and warnings of space
weather storms to a number of customer groups and technologies. Rodney
will describe how a forecaster forecasts space weather storms and
describe what happens when they arrive at Earth. What are the impacts
and what technologies are affected? Who are the customers for space
weather products and services and why do they care. And finally,
whether it is flying in airplanes, using GPS satellite navigation, or
trying to see the Aurora, Rodney will review some of the ways that the
public might experience space weather.
View the Webinar by clicking here: http://youtu.be/D17bilGoKWg
View Rodney Viereck's presentation slides  (19MB)
Resources:
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Space Weather Prediction Center's Product Subscription Service (Receive alerts)
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