2010 Aug 03 Simulation of Magnetosphere and CME shock / geomagnetic storm

Watch this all the way through - at about 2/3rd of the way through, you will see the shock wave of the coronal mass ejection (from August 1 - the "Massive Solar Tsunami" event).

This is a simulation derived from satellite data of the interaction between the solar wind, the earth's magnetosphere, and earth's ionosphere.

The interesting part starts at about two-thirds into the movie, where the UTC time stamp is 1651 UTC. You can see the shock wave hit the magnetosphere.

This movie spans August 3, 2010. At about 1651 UTC in the movie (just about the two-thirds point), the shock arrives, as can be seen in the pressure level and the Bz component graphs.

This is the arrival of the second CME released during the August 1, 2010 double eruption solar event (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyaqxK... ). This triggered aurora on August 4, 2010, as the geomagnetic field became stormy (Kp was at or above 5).

More info: http://prop.hfradio.org/

This video is used by permission, granted to NW7US by NICT. The movie is copyright@NICT, Japan.

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[lvlegabite]

excelent thank you for you work here love it :D

[nibirux2012]

whoa that was massive