NOAA Scientist Finds Clue to Predicting Solar Flares

For decades, experts have searched for signs in the sun that could lead to more accurate forecasts of solar flares ? powerful blasts of energy that can supercharge Earth?s upper atmosphere and disrupt satellites and the land-based technologies on which modern societies depend.

Now a scientist at NOAA?s Space Weather Prediction Center and her colleagues have found a technique for predicting solar flares two to three days in advance with unprecedented accuracy.



The long-sought clue [...]

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