NASA's AI-powered model to sound alarm before solar storms, help avert damage to critical infrastructure
Move over AI, world is getting ready for artificial meteor showers
It sometimes produces so-called geomagnetic storms when this solar material interacts with Earth's magnetic environment (also known as its "magnetosphere"). These magnetic storms can have mild to severe effects, but because technology is used increasingly in our everyday lives, their effects are becoming more disruptive.
The DAGGER model
As we approach the next "solar maximum," a peak in the Sun's 11-year activity cycle, which is predicted to occur somewhere in 2025, the probability of geomagnetic storms and their disastrous impacts on our society is rising.
Scientists used this information to create the DAGGER computer model, also known as Deep Learning Geomagnetic Perturbation, which can forecast geomagnetic disturbances 30 minutes in advance, globally.
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With this AI, it is now possible to make rapid and accurate global predictions and inform decisions in the event of a solar storm, thereby minimizing or even preventing devastation to modern society, said Vishal Upendran of the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India, who is the lead author of a paper about the DAGGER model
published
in the journal Space Weather.
Two geomagnetic storms that occurred in August 2011 and March 2015 were used by the DAGGER team to evaluate the model's potential. In each case, DAGGER was able to quickly and accurately forecast the storm's global implications.
With models like DAGGER, it's possible that solar storm sirens will one day sound an alarm at power plants and satellite control centres all over the world, just like tornado sirens do in towns and cities across America.
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