Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: dipole field lines compressed by the solar wind, the magnetopause and the auroral ovals
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
Some hazards start at the Sun.
Map space weather and extraterrestrial hazards on a real place
The model
From a coronal mass ejection to a grid operator's decision: how a field rate of change becomes a transformer current
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The model From a coronal mass ejection to a grid operator's decision: how a field rate of change becomes a transformer current
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
For grid operators, satellite and aviation planners, national risk assessors and forecasters who need to read a geomagnetic storm or near-Earth object alert and know what it means for the systems they run.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Space weather and extraterrestrial hazards's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow space weather and extraterrestrial hazards on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Space weather and extraterrestrial hazards.
Search termsSpace weather and extraterrestrial hazards; Solar flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles; Geomagnetic storms and the NOAA scales; Geomagnetically induced currents in power grids; Effects on satellites, GNSS and high-frequency radio; Radiation at aviation altitudesDerived from the Risk Academy page on Space weather and extraterrestrial hazards.
No source is enabled for live display on this site yet: the sources are listed for reference and none is queried. Once the publisher of record enables a source after its terms are reviewed, recent works are listed here. Metadata and links only: title, authors, venue, year, type, open-access status and licence as each source records them; works are listed for orientation, not reviewed or endorsed.
Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Space weather and extraterrestrial hazards, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
The course catalogue lists every open course of the Academy.
One for each course with this as its primary discipline, earned when you pass the course's assessed activities.
Earn two discipline achievements in the Department of Hazard Science. In development.
An achievement is a record of the learning completed and assessed here. How recognition works.
A field platform page on this subject is in development.
Nexus Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.
Start with Hapgood, then Tsurutani, then Riley.
Nexus Reports is the Consortium's quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.