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Geophysical report

Any mentioned solar flare in this report has a scaling factor applied by the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). Because of the SWPC scaling factor, solar flares are reported as 42% smaller than for the science quality data. The scaling factor has been removed from our archived solar flare data to reflect the true physical units.
Solar and Geophysical Activity Summary 1996 Dec 15 0245 UTC
Prepared by the NOAA © SWPC and processed by SpaceWeatherLive.com

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar and Geophysical Activity Summary

SGAS Number 350 Issued at 0245Z on 15 DEC 1996 This report is compiled from data received at SWO on 14 DEC
A. Energetic Events
:
Begin  Max  End  Rgn   Loc   Xray  Op 245MHz 10cm   Sweep
None

B. Proton Events
None
C. Geomagnetic Activity Summary
QUIET TO UNSETTLED.
D. Stratwarm
None
E. Daily Indices: (real-time preliminary/estimated values)
10 CM 083  SSN 030  AFR/AP 003/005  X-RAY BACKGROUND  A8.5
DAILY PROTON FLUENCE (FLUX ACCUMULATION OVER 24 HRS)
GT 1 MEV 1.3E+06  GT 10 MEV 1.7E+04 P/(CM2-STER-DAY)
(GOES-9 SATELLITE SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT W135 DEGREES)
DAILY ELECTRON FLUENCE
GT 2 MEV 5.2E+07 E/(CM2-STER-DAY)
(GOES-9 SATELLITE SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT W135 DEGREES)
3 HOUR K-INDICES:
BOULDER 0 0 2 3 2 1 1 1 PLANETARY 0 0 1 2 2 2 3 2

F. Comments
 None


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