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Product: Daily Forecast of Geomagnetic Activity
Issued: 2015 December 13 07:31UTC
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 12.12.2015 at 20:00 UTC was 117 sfu.
The background X-Ray flux is at the class B4 level.
The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels on December 12.
No obviously Earth directed CMEs were observed in available LASCO imagery.
The Kp index now is at unsettled levels with Kp=3.

2. Solar Wind Geomagnetic Activity
Solar Wind speed from ACE: 500 km/s.
Solar Wind speed from STEREO A: 420 km/s.
Solar Wind speed from STEREO B: --- km/s.
The southward component of Bz is: 0 nT.

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

4. Coronal Holes
A recurrent northern hemisphere coronal hole (CH705) will rotate across the central meridian on December 11-13.

5. Geophysical Activity Forecast
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levles on Dec. 13-15.

    Date         Estimated Geomagnetic Ap index
2015.12.13                    8
2015.12.14                    7
2015.12.15                    8

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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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