martedì 10 maggio 2011

SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2011 May 10 1948 UTC
:Product: documentation at http://www.sidc.be/products/bul
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WEEK 540 from 2011 May 02 

SOLAR ACTIVITY
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The week started with a C6.5 flare (actually just before midnight) from NOAA 11199, then already
rotated over the solar West limb. After that, activity was dominated by a cluster of active regions
(NOAA 11203, 11204 and 11205) in the NE quadrant. A C1.3 flare was released from NOAA11204
on May 3, but activity gradually decreased after that and no more flares of C-class,  or higher,
were observed during the period.

An active region (later labeled NOAA11210)  with a very extended structure of coronal rays crossed
the solar NE limb on May 4.

>From May 7 onwards an SIDC ALL QUIET ALERT was issued for the rest of the period.


GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
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The week started with high geomagnetic activity (Kp=5) as a consequence of a high speed solar wind
stream (>600km/s). Solar wind speed and geomagnetic activity decayed monotonically as the period
proceded, down to  a solar wind speed of 300km/s and a value of Kp=1.
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DAILY INDICES
DATE          RC  EISN  10CM  Ak  BKG    M  X
2011 May 02  ///    034  110  ///  B2.9  0  0
2011 May 03  ///    046  107  018  B2.1  0  0
2011 May 04  106    048  107  006  B2.0  0  0
2011 May 05  098    047  105  008  B1.8  0  0
2011 May 06  049    029  102  004  B1.8  0  0
2011 May 07  ///    023  102  009  B1.8  0  0
2011 May 08  ///    041  102  003  B1.8  0  0
# RC  : Sunspot index (Wolf Number) from Catania Observatory (Italy)
# EISN : Estimated International Sunspot Number
# 10cm : 10.7 cm  radioflux (DRAO, Canada)
# Ak  : Ak Index Wingst (Germany)
# BKG  : Background GOES X-ray level (NOAA, USA)
# M,X  : Number of X-ray flares in M and X class, see below (NOAA, USA)
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NOTICEABLE EVENTS
DAY BEGIN MAX  END  LOC    XRAY OP TENCM TYPE                      Cat NOAA NOTE


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