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This
section has two pages. Click on the pdf icon at left if you do not have
an activity sheet for this section.
A - Solar Flares and Magnetic Disturbances
Links in the Gather Data section are from the Australian Space Weather Agency.
Click
here to go to the SOLAR
FLARE EFFECT site.
- Scroll down to the graph.
- Describe the relationship between X-ray radiation and the magnetic field variation.
B - Sunspots and Geomagnetic Storms
Click
here to go to the OCCURRENCE
OF GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCES site.
- Describe the relationship between the sunspot number and the number of days with geomagnetic storms.
C - Monthly Storms
Click
here to go to the SEASONABLE
DISTRIBUTION site.
- Scroll down to the graph.
- What two months have the highest average number of geomagnetic storms?
- What three months have the lowest average number of geomagnetic storms?
- Recalling the effects of geomagnetic storms, in what months would you want to test a new computer network?
- Why did you choose these months?
