Annotated catalog of intense geomagnetic storms including their solar and interplanetary causes
摘要
Geomagnetic storms are the result of interaction between Earth’s magnetic field and interplanetary magnetic field conducted by large-scale structures from the Sun, such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and stream interaction regions (SIRs). CMEs originate from closed magnetic regions on the Sun, such as active regions and quiescent filament regions. SIRs are formed in the interplanetary medium due to the fast solar wind originating from coronal holes—regions of open magnetic field lines and interacting with the slow wind ahead. Geomagnetic storms have significant space weather consequences, such as geomagnetically induced currents, atmospheric heating, ionospheric density changes and energization of Van Allen belt electrons to relativistic energies. In this paper, we describe a catalog of intense geomagnetic storms with the Dst index