11 Facts About Space weather

Space weather is a branch of space physics and aeronomy, or heliophysics, concerned with the time varying conditions within the Solar System, including the solar wind, emphasizing the space surrounding the Earth, including conditions in the magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.

Space weather is distinct from but conceptually related to the terrestrial weather of the atmosphere of Earth .

The term space weather was first used in the 1950s and came into common usage in the 1990s.

Term space weather came into usage in the late 1950s as the space age began and satellites began to measure the space environment.

Amount of energy entering the troposphere and stratosphere from space weather phenomena is trivial compared to the solar insolation in the visible and infra-red portions of the solar electromagnetic spectrum.

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Space weather is monitored at ground level by observing changes in the Earth's magnetic field over periods of seconds to days, by observing the surface of the Sun and by observing radio noise created in the Sun's atmosphere.

Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite is a NOAA Earth observation and space weather satellite that launched in February 2015.

Space weather models are simulations of the space weather environment.

Space weather models differ from meteorological models in that the amount of input is vastly smaller.

The Community Coordinated Modeling Center at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is a facility for coordinating the development and testing of research models, for improving and preparing models for use in space weather prediction and application.

Space weather providers are typically smaller companies, or small divisions within a larger company, that provide space weather data, models, derivative products and service distribution.