NOAA / Space Weather Prediction Center

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To provide electrical utility users with easy access to space weather forecasts, data,  documentation, and other resources.

Alerts, Forecasts, and Predictions

• Space Weather Advisory Products -- Weekly Outlook and Advisory Bulletins
• Alerts and Warnings
• Today's Space Weather
• Daily 3-day Forecast
• Costello Geomagnetic Activity Index -- Kp Prediction based on solar wind observations at L1

Geomagnetic Data at SWPC

• Online Geomagnetic Data
• A & K Indices Measurements
• GOES Magnetometer
• ACE Real-time Solar Wind Interplanetary Magnetic Field - Plots and Lists
• Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA POES
• GOES Solar X-ray Images

Current Issues and Activities of Interest to Electrical Utility Users

• Space Weather Week - SWPC's Annual User Conference
• SWPC's Rapid Prototyping Center
• SWPC Forecast Evaluation
• Information about the ACE spacecraft
• Solar Cycle 23 Progression

Resources and Links for more information -- non SWPC Web Sites

• Electrical Power Research Institute
• North American Electric Reliability Council
• Geological Survey of Canada - Geomagnetic Effects on Technology

Geomagnetic Index Data Centers -- non SWPC Web Sites

• National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
• WDC-C2 for geomagnetic data (Dst) - Japan
• WDC-C1 for geomagnetic data - Denmark
• Potsdam GFZ (Kp, Ap) - Germany
• International Service of Geomagnetic Indices

Online SWPC Documentation

• The K-index -- a short description
• NOAA Space Weather Scales -- Geomagnetic scale used in Space Weather Advisory products
• "Geomagnetic Storms can Threaten Electric Power Grid", by Kappenman, Zanetti, Radasky, 1997
• SWPC's Education Page -- other online educational material

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