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Product: Daily Forecast of Geomagnetic Activity
Issued: 2015 January 01 11:13UTC
Prepared by the Athens Space Weather Forecasting Center
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1. Solar activity
Solar activity was almost stable during the past 24 hours.
Solar Flux (10.7 cm) measured on 31.12.2014 at 20:00 UTC was 134 sfu.
The background X-Ray flux is at the class B5 level.
The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels on December 31.
No obviously Earth directed CMEs were observed in LASCO imagery.
The Kp index now is at quiet levels with Kp=1.

2. Solar Wind Geomagnetic Activity
Solar wind speed from ACE: 480 km/s.
Solar wind speed from STEREO A: --- km/s.
Solar wind speed from STEREO B: --- km/s.
The southward component of Bz is: 0.3 nT north.

3. Solar Energetic Particle Events
Protons and electrons are at quiet levels.

4. Coronal Holes
A corotating interaction region could be associated with the large southern hemisphere coronal hole. In that case the CIR will be in an Earth facing position on January 1-2.

5. Geophysical Activity Forecast
The geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly at quiet levels on January 1-3.

    Date         Estimated Geomagnetic Ap index
2015.01.01                      8
2015.01.02                      9
2015.01.03                      9

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Athens Space Weather Forecasting Center
Physics Department, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens Neutron Monitor Station A.NE.MO.S
Tel.: +30 210 727 6901
email: spaceweather@phys.uoa.gr
URL: http://spaceweather.phys.uoa.gr
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