Space Weather Broadcast and Communications

Catalog description

Examines existing space weather data, images and products. These products will be important in learning how to create a space weather broadcast. Video projects pertaining to specific space weather events such as solar flares, geomagnetic storming, radiation storms, etc. will be important to demonstrate knowledge of which products to use for communicating a forecast. How to utilize resources, integrated space weather analysis system, solar dynamics observatory and others, will be stressed. Prerequisite: SWEN 572 or permission of the program coordinator. 3 c.h. Offered annually. Fully onllne, distance-learning format.