Exciting work recently published from our group by Dr Ravindra Desai and former MSc student Han Zhang, and others! This work highlights the power of numerical modelling in Space Weather forcasting.

"Solar Orbiter is living up to its promise. We always knew it was going to be a fantastic mission and the early measurements are showing just how much potential there is for unprecedented insights into the Sun" – Prof Tim Horbury on ESA's Solar Orbiter ow.ly/ME9G50BJM7Z

My first paper on the radial and longitudinal variation of an ICME has recently been published in Solar Physics! 😃 Thank you to my co-authors, Bob, Simon and Emilia Kilpua! doi.org/10.1007/s11207…

Looking forward to talking at #AGU20 later this evening (19:30 GMT/ 11:30 PST) about the work we've been doing on this exciting event - the first CME observed by Solar Orbiter! Meanwhile, you can listen to the longer version of my talk here: agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meeti…

We've submitted a paper! Exciting because 1) it's about the first CME seen by ESA's Solar Orbiter, 2) the spacecraft are located in excellent viewing/measuring positions, and 3) we see the CME get distorted by the solar wind as it travels towards Earth! arxiv.org/abs/2012.07456

The certificate has arrived and it finally feels official, that’s the PhD complete! 💫 A massive thank you to everyone who helped me along the way!

Our paper on the first CME seen by ESA's Solar Orbiter has been published in the A&A Solar Orbiter First Results special issue! 💥💥 Check it out in all its formatted glory here: doi.org/10.1051/0004-6…

The small CME/ magnetic flux rope observed by @SolarOrbiterMAG on March 21st should now be arriving at Earth. Fingers crossed for more events throughout the next week or so!

And here's how the ESA's Solar Orbiter CME turned out the morning after! Not too bad for a prediction using simple time shifting (just need to add some expansion now). Hope you lucky ones with the aurora enjoyed it!

Just released a new version of the #solarstorm (ICME) catalog on our portal helioforecast.space/icmecat - 1188 events in total, coverage up to March 2023.☀️🛰️

Our team at the Austrian Space Weather Office Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria will be at the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, April 14-19. We are involved in convening 3 sessions on modeling, observations and forecasting of #solarstorms and AI applications. Abstracts are due January 10💀

A #solarstorm erupting on early Sun March 17 was observed by @SolarOrbiterMAG onboard ESA's Solar Orbiter, situated luckily right along the Sun-Earth line to measure its magnetic core. This is a perfect event to test CME forecasting with a long distance sub-L1 monitor. Buckle up!👇

We've made some predictions for the CME(s) observed at Solar Orbiter on 18th March! We should be seeing them arrive at Earth later this evening, all the way into tomorrow. And look at that Southwards magnetic field 👀 We're expecting a double-dip geomagnetic storm, so auroras! 🌞

This is our summary prediction so far, based on @SolarOrbiterMAG data and empirical modeling using CME physics - a moderate geomagnetic storm at its peak, starting late March 20, and going on for 2 nights. High latitude #aurora intensification should be possible!

We've added an extra panel showing our predicted SYM-H compared to the real-time Dst index (similar geomagnetic indices within 10 nT). We're predicting a minimum around -60 nT, so more of a minor geomagnetic storm late tomorrow evening (21st) through to the morning (22nd) 🌞

In the ESA's Solar Orbiter Eruptive Events working group, we have an online meeting tomorrow Thursday September 26 16:00 CEST, with 3 speakers on first analyses of the May 2024 super geomagnetic storm. Sign up here - we have almost 400 members! sites.google.com/view/solo-wg/w…

We modelled the global structure of a CME observed by Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe back in Sep 2022, and the paper is out: doi.org/10.3847/1538-4…! You can read a short version in the newly released Solar Orbiter Science Nugget: cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-orbi… 🌞

Aurora pictures from the UK! 🩷💜💚 Thanks to my family in Worcestershire/Herefordshire 🌞

"I've never seen anything like it in my life" - Mum, seeing the aurora for the first time from Malvern, UK ❤️💚

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