May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
... on people and systems. The scales describe the environmental disturbances for three event types: geomagnetic storms, solar radiation storms and radio blackouts (not shown here). To convey severity they have numbered levels, analogous to hurricanes...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... types of space weather events are typically recognised: radio blackouts, solar radiation storms and geomagnetic storms. Radio blackouts occur when a strong burst of x-rays from a solar flare hits the Earth’s atmosphere. These x-rays can affect both...
