VLab Forum Members,
If you have ever lost electricity for more than a few hours, you
can attest to how reliant we are on energy. To learn how the
National Weather Service is working to keep the light on, please
join us today for the March 2021 VLab Forum at 3:35 PM (Eastern
Time) featuring a presentation by Dr. Christopher Balch titled
"The NOAA-USGS Geoelectric Field Modeling Project: mitigating
the impacts of space weather on the nation's electric power
grid." We hope you can attend.
To participate in the forum, please register
for the webinar. Note: This forum is virtual only.
Abstract:
Geomagnetic storms are a particular kind of space weather that
induce electrical current into artificial conductors on the surface
of the earth such as the electrical power grid. For many years
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has supported the industry
through legacy geomagnetic indices which provide only a general
indication of activity levels but do not tell users where to expect
the largest impacts and do not provide a direct causal link between
the activity and the effect. In recent years the Space Weather
Prediction Center has partnered with the U.S. Geological Survey and
other subject matter experts to develop real-time geoelectric field
maps. These geoelectric field maps combine information about
regional geomagnetic field variations with earth conductivity
structure to estimate regional geoelectric fields, which in turn are
the direct drivers of these geomagnetically induced currents. In
this talk we provide background on how this new user requirement was
initially identified, how the calculations work and show examples of
the real-time map products which recently have transitioned to
operations at NOAA/SWPC.
Agenda:
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Talk Focus:
- NWS Talk deals with a topic related to R2O/O2R
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