Space Weather
1-31-11Space weather forecasters have a new tool to issue a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from our Sun, detailed at the annual American Meteorological Society meeting held this week in Seattle, Washington.
The new capability stems from research work at Boston University-led Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM).
CISM is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center made up of 11 member institutions.
The development comes in response to the growing need to protect the global communications infrastructure and other sensitive technologies from severe space weather disruptions.
