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More than $5M to improve solar storm forecasts – EurekAlert
Solar storms and other space weather events have the potential to impact society on a national or global scale, and University of Michigan researchers lead two multimillion-dollar projects to improve forecasting.
Solar storms and other space weather events have the potential to impact society on a national or global scale, and University of Michigan researchers lead two multimillion-dollar projects to improve forecasting.
These torrents of charged particles and electromagnetic fields from the sun can damage power lines and satellites, and even astronauts. The National Science Foundation and NASA are investing $17 million in a program to develop next-generation space weather modeling software, NSF annou…
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