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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 15 0245 UTC
Prepared by the NOAA © SWPC and processed by SpaceWeatherLive.com

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar and Geophysical Activity Summary

SGAS Number 288 Issued at 0245Z on 15 Oct 2002 This report is compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Oct
A. Energetic Events
Begin  Max  End  Rgn   Loc   Xray  Op 245MHz 10cm   Sweep
2342 0010 0108  0159 S13E75 M2.2  Sf 45     83     II
0238 0247 0301  0145 N10E11 C5.8  Sf 100
1419 1423 1426              C1.3     72            II
1741 1743 1745                       220
B. Proton Events
None
C. Geomagnetic Activity Summary
The geomagnetic field ranged from quiet to major storm levels. And extended interval of active conditions, with an isolated period of major storming at high latitudes, appeared to occur primarily due to a sustained strong southward orientation of Bz, and a slow increase in solar wind speed. Other solar wind data suggest an overall pattern of a CIR evolving toward to a weak high speed stream pattern near the end of the period.
D. Stratwarm
None
E. Daily Indices: (real-time preliminary/estimated values)
10 cm 181  SSN 175  Afr/Ap 016/026   X-ray Background M1.0
Daily Proton Fluence (flux accumulation over 24 hrs)
GT 1 MeV 3.5e+05   GT 10 MeV 1.3e+04 p/(cm2-ster-day)
(GOES-8 satellite synchronous orbit W75 degrees)
Daily Electron Fluence
GT 2 MeV 5.40e+06 e/(cm2-ster-day)
(GOES-8 satellite synchronous orbit W75 degrees)
3 Hour K-indices
Boulder 2 3 4 4 4 4 2 2 Planetary 3 4 4 4 6 4 3 2
F. Comments
  First event listed in Section A above began on 13
October and ended on 14 October.

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