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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 2002 Oct 05 0245 UTC
Prepared by the NOAA © SWPC and processed by SpaceWeatherLive.com

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar and Geophysical Activity Summary

SGAS Number 278 Issued at 0245Z on 05 Oct 2002 This report is compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Oct
A. Energetic Events
Begin  Max  End  Rgn   Loc   Xray  Op 245MHz 10cm   Sweep
0039 0043 0053  0137 S19W07 M1.0  Sf
0133 0133 0133                       340
0534 0538 0541  0137 S19W09 M4.0  1n        90
1054 1105 1109  0137 S20W10 M3.5  1n
1243 1255 1307  0139 N08E49 M1.2  1f 52     38     II
1332 1332 1332                       130
1704 1711 1715  0137 S21W16 M1.2  Sf
2232 2243 2251  0139 N13E43 M2.7  Sf 5300   140    II
B. Proton Events
None
C. Geomagnetic Activity Summary
The geomagnetic field was at predominantly active to major storm levels with an isolated severe storm period between 04/00 - 03Z. Though solar wind speed remains below 450 km/s, the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field was sustained southward for the entire period, ranging -2 to -12nT. The storm was gradually subsiding by the end of the period.
D. Stratwarm
None
E. Daily Indices: (real-time preliminary/estimated values)
10 cm 158  SSN 098  Afr/Ap 035/048   X-ray Background C1.1
Daily Proton Fluence (flux accumulation over 24 hrs)
GT 1 MeV 7.0e+05   GT 10 MeV 1.1e+04 p/(cm2-ster-day)
(GOES-8 satellite synchronous orbit W75 degrees)
Daily Electron Fluence
GT 2 MeV 2.00e+07 e/(cm2-ster-day)
(GOES-8 satellite synchronous orbit W75 degrees)
3 Hour K-indices
Boulder 7 4 5 4 4 4 3 3 Planetary 7 5 6 5 4 3 4 4
F. Comments
  None

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