Humanity is becoming ever more vulnerable to adverse space weather conditions due to our increasing reliance on networked space-borne technologies. Losing one or more of the network nodes even for a short period of time will have major repercussions and cost billions of euro.
Adverse space weather results from solar flares and coronal mass ejections released from the turbulent and highly complex magnetic fields of active regions of the Sun. Understanding how active region magnetic fields evolve and behave will enable scientists to develop accurate and reliable space-weather monitoring and forecasting capabilities.
Further details: Solar flare forecasting service to be launched shortly