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Solar Features - Solar Flares


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            title:  Solar Features - Solar Flares
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                date:  2014-08-10
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                organisationName:  These data were acquired from various providers. Please reference the recommended citation text within the documentation section associated with each dataset. Overall Scientific Data Stewardship provided by the National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce.
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        abstract:  A solar flare is a short-lived sudden increase in the intensity of radiation emitted in the neighborhood of sunspots. For many years it was best monitored in the H-alpha wavelength and occurs in the chromosphere, though occasionally white light flares are seen in the photosphere. In modern times the solar X-ray wavelengths are monitored via satellite for solar flares. Flares are characterized by a rise time of the order of minutes and a decay time of the order of tens of minutes. The total energy expended in a typical flare is about 1030 ergs; the magnetic field is extraordinarily high reaching values of 100 to 10,000 gauss. Optical flares in H-alpha are usually accompanied by radio and X-ray bursts and occasionally by high-energy particle emissions. The optical brightness and size of the flare are indicated by a two-character code called "importance." The first character, a number from 1 to 4, indicates the apparent area. For areas of less than 1, an "S" is used to designate a subflare. The second character indicates relative brilliance: B for bright, N for normal and F for faint. A general discussion of solar flares is found in Svestka [1976]. The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly NGDC) holds archives for about 80 stations, covering the period 1938 to the present. Currently 5 stations send their data to NGDC Boulder on a routine monthly basis -- the current main observing emphasis for Space Weather has transitioned to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) which directly impact the Earth's geomagnetic field. Solar flares impact the Earth's upper atmosphere and can eject high energy particles that can cause satellite failures. The flare reports were processed and published in the monthly report "Solar-Geophysical Data" and in a different format in the IAU "Quarterly Bulletin on Solar Activity."
        purpose:  To provide scientific data stewardship of solar-terrestrial datasets in compliance with NOAA Administrative Order (NAO) 212-15, "Management of Environmental and Geospatial Data and Information", dated 04 Nov 10. Scientific Data Stewardship includes the Archive, Access, and Assessment (AAA) of operational and related solar and space environmental datasets.
        credit:  Data access provided by the NOAA Solar and Terrestrial Physics Division. Numerous solar observatories have contributed to this collection - please refer to the Lineage section of this metadata record.
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                description:  Flares observed in H-alpha.
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                description:  Flares observed in x-rays.
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                    title:  Solar Flares: X-rays
                    date: (withheld)
                    citedResponsibleParty:  (CI_ResponsibleParty)
                        organisationName:  NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
                        contactInfo:  (CI_Contact)
                            phone:  (CI_Telephone)
                                voice:  303 497-6323
                                facsimile:  303 497-6513
                            address:  (CI_Address)
                                deliveryPoint:  325 Broadway, E/GC2
                                city:  Boulder
                                administrativeArea:  Colorado
                                postalCode:  80305-3337
                                country:  U.S.A.
                                electronicMailAddress:  solar.ngdc@noaa.gov
                            onlineResource:  (CI_OnlineResource)
                                linkage: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
                                name:  NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
                                description:  NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provides scientific stewardship, products, and services for geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space.
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                        extent:
                          TimePeriod:
                            beginPosition:  1968-03-21
                            endPosition:  2011-02-28
            source:  (LI_Source)
                description:  Sudden ionospheric disturbances.
                sourceCitation:  (CI_Citation)
                    title:  Solar Flares: SIDs
                    date: (withheld)
                    citedResponsibleParty:  (CI_ResponsibleParty)
                        organisationName:  NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
                        contactInfo:  (CI_Contact)
                            phone:  (CI_Telephone)
                                voice:  303 497-6323
                                facsimile:  303 497-6513
                            address:  (CI_Address)
                                deliveryPoint:  325 Broadway, E/GC2
                                city:  Boulder
                                administrativeArea:  Colorado
                                postalCode:  80305-3337
                                country:  U.S.A.
                                electronicMailAddress:  solar.ngdc@noaa.gov
                            onlineResource:  (CI_OnlineResource)
                                linkage: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
                                name:  NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
                                description:  NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provides scientific stewardship, products, and services for geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space.
                        role:  (CI_RoleCode) resourceProvider
                sourceExtent:  (EX_Extent)
                    temporalElement:  (EX_TemporalExtent)
                        extent:
                          TimePeriod:
                            beginPosition:  1958-03-01
                            endPosition:  2010-09-28
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    metadataMaintenance:  (MD_MaintenanceInformation)
        maintenanceAndUpdateFrequency:  (MD_MaintenanceFrequencyCode) annually
        dateOfNextUpdate:  2015-09-30
        updateScope:  (MD_ScopeCode)
        updateScopeDescription:  (MD_ScopeDescription)
            dataset:  Update collection for the Space Weather Prediction Center daily full sun drawings as data becomes available, including missing records (all observatories).
        maintenanceNote:  This metadata was automatically generated from the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata standard version FGDC-STD-012-2002 using the June 2011 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform. The Spatial Reference Information is not currently mapped over to ISO but will be mapped in future versions.
        maintenanceNote:  This record was automatically modified on 2015-10-02 to include references to NCEI where applicable.
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            positionName:  Metadata Specialist
            role:  (CI_RoleCode) editor
        contact:  (CI_ResponsibleParty)
            individualName:  William Denig
            organisationName:  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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                phone:  (CI_Telephone)
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                address:  (CI_Address)
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                    city:  Boulder
                    administrativeArea:  CO
                    postalCode:  80305
                    country:  USA
                    electronicMailAddress:  solar.ngdc@noaa.gov
                hoursOfService:  7:30 - 4:30 Mountain
            role:  (CI_RoleCode) pointOfContact
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        instrument:  (MI_Instrument)
            identifier: (inapplicable)
            type: (Solar telescopes)
        platform:  (MI_Platform)
            identifier:  (MD_Identifier)
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            instrument:  (MI_Instrument)
                identifier:  (MD_Identifier)
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                type:  Space-based and ground-based solar telescopes.