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SPACE WEATHER-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
卷 17, 期 1, 页码 180-209出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2018SW002017
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- STFC consolidated grant [ST/M000885/1]
- SWIGS NERC Directed Highlight Topic grant [NE/P016928/1]
- NERC [NE/P017274/1]
- NERC as part of the SCENARIO Doctoral Training Partnership [NE/L002566/1]
- NERC [bas0100031, NE/P016693/1, NE/P016928/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- STFC [ST/M000885/1, ST/R000921/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/P016693/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We study how the probability distribution functions of power input to the magnetosphere P-alpha and of the geomagnetic ap and Dst indices vary with averaging timescale, tau, between 3 hr and 1 year. From this we develop and present algorithms to empirically model the distributions for a given z and a given annual mean value. We show that lognormal distributions work well for ap, but because of the spread of Dst for low activity conditions, the optimum formulation for Dst leads to distributions better described by something like the Weibull formulation. Annual means can be estimated using telescope observations of sunspots and modeling, and so this allows the distributions to be estimated at any given z between 3 hr and 1 year for any of the past 400 years, which is another important step toward a useful space weather climatology. The algorithms apply to the core of the distributions and can be used to predict the occurrence rate of large events (in the top 5% of activity levels): they may contain some, albeit limited, information relevant to characterizing the much rarer superstorm events with extreme value statistics. The algorithm for the Dst index is the more complex one because, unlike ap, Dst can take on either sign and future improvements to it are suggested. Plain Language Summary; This is the third in a series of three papers aimed at developing a climatology of space weather that applies to all solar conditions between grand solar minimum and grand solar maximum. We generate empirical models to enable us to predict the probability of a given level of space weather disturbance, as quantified by either the ap of the Dst geomagnetic indices, in a year with a given average level of disturbance. The models can be used with averaging/integration times anywhere between 3 hr and 1 year.
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