ENLIL Solar Wind Prediction - STEREO
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Results of heliospheric computations are shown between 0.1 and 1.1 AU
for a -/+ 5 day span about begining of the day with the most recent
solar wind source data.
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Date (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss UTC) at the top left corresponds to
displayed results.
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Date (yyy-mm-dd UTC -/+ days) at the top right gives time relative
to beginning of the day with the most recent solar wind source data.
Negative (positive) values are for times prior (subsequent)
to that reference date.
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Top center panel shows the solar wind plasma density, scaled by (r/R_AU)^2,
on the equatorial slice passing through Earth.
The color scale is given at the right.
Planets and spacecraft are marked by symbols given at the left.
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This panel also shows positions of STEREO spacecraft with respective
field of views (light red and blue lines; axes have arrows
indicating the viewing direction) and corresponding Thomson curves
(thick red and blue curves) marking the peak in the white-light
scattering toward the observer.
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Two bottom panels show synthetic white-light images as might be seen
by STEREO HI-2 instruments.
The total brightness is shown using the color scale given at the bottom.
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These panels also show concentric circles (the central axis) that
correspond to the view directions displayed in the top-center panel
as lines (lines with the arrow).
The vertical line is in the latitudinal direction with North at the top.
The horizontal line is in the longitudinal direction with East
on the left.
The horizontal line corresponds to a viewing segment in the equatorial
plane shown in the top-center panel.
This is a page in progress.
Please send questions and comments to
Dusan.Odstrcil@nasa.gov
from
George Mason University/CDS/Space Weather Laboratory
and
NASA/GSFC/Space Weather Laboratory
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Acknowledgments: This work has been supported in part by
AFOSR/MURI, NASA/LWS, NASA/STEREO, NSF/CISM, and NSF/SHINE projects.
Last update: 2008-03-23
Last update: 2010-06-04