Space weather can affect technology in various ways, such as altering long distance radio communication and satellite signals, diminishing the accuracy of compasses, and even destroying electrical powergrids causing blackouts to entire cities. Due to societies' growing dependence on technologies affected, this project studied the Sun and its solar winds in an effort to predict this weather. Using data recorded by the Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer satellite, the final product from this project was the creation of empirical models of the Poynting and kinetic energy flux in the Earth's atmosphere. In future work, an analytical model will be fit to these empirical models in order to further study and predict space weather.

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Creator

• Xu, Yuchen

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042412-134620

Advisor

• Klein, Andrew G.
• Humi, Mayer

Year

• 2012

Center

• Silicon Valley, California Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• SRI International

Date created

• 2012-04-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences
• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright