Origin of the Wang–Sheeley–Arge solar wind model

Sheeley Jr., Neil R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-8-21-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-8-21-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-8-21-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Review article

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31 Mar 2017

Review article |

| 31 Mar 2017

Origin of the Wang–Sheeley–Arge solar wind model

Neil R. Sheeley Jr.

Data sets

WSA-ENLIL Solar Wind Prediction NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa-enlil-solar-wind-prediction

The 150-Foot Solar Tower at Mt. Wilson Observatory R. Ulrich http://obs.astro.ucla.edu/intro.html

OmniWeb Plus NASA Goddard Space Flight Center https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Community Coordinated Modeling Center A. Chulaki https://ccmc.nasa.gov

Short summary

A method of deducing solar wind speed from magnetic observations of the Sun was verified in 1989 using 22 years of observations. This paper traces the evolution of this method from its birth in 1974 to its current use as a space weather forecasting technique. This paper is taken from an invited talk at the joint session of the Historical Astronomy Division and the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society during its 224th meeting in Boston, MA, on 3 June 2014.