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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 2009 Mar 17 0245 UTC
Prepared by the NOAA © SWPC and processed by SpaceWeatherLive.com

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar and Geophysical Activity Summary

SGAS Number 076 Issued at 0245Z on 17 Mar 2009 This report is compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Mar
A. Energetic Events
Begin  Max  End  Rgn   Loc   Xray  Op 245MHz 10cm   Sweep
None
B. Proton Events
None
C. Geomagnetic Activity Summary
Quiet.
D. Stratwarm
Not available
E. Daily Indices: (real-time preliminary/estimated values)
10 cm 069  SSN 000  Afr/Ap 005/005   X-ray Background  LT A1.0
Daily Proton Fluence (flux accumulation over 24 hrs)
GT 1 MeV 9.3e+05   GT 10 MeV 1.9e+04 p/(cm2-ster-day)
(GOES-11 satellite synchronous orbit W134 degrees)
Daily Electron Fluence
GT 2 MeV 9.90e+07 e/(cm2-ster-day)
(GOES-11 satellite synchronous orbit W134 degrees)
3 Hour K-indices
Boulder 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 0 Planetary 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 
F. Comments
  None

All times in UTC

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Current data suggests there is a slight possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future

Norilsk, Vorkuta
The solar wind speed is currently moderately high (506.9 km/sec.)
The maximum X-ray flux of the past two hours is:
C9.1

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