Polar cap patch prediction in the expanding contracting polar cap paradigm

• Published in: Space Weather
• Main Authors: Follestad, Anna Kristine Fæhn, Clausen, Lasse Boy Novock, Thomas, E.G., Jin, Yaqi, Coster, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Lagrange; Svalbard
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/78649; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-81750; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019SW002276

Space weather can cause serious disturbances of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) used for positioning and navigation purposes. This paper describes a new method to forecast space weather disturbances on GNSS at high latitudes, in which we describe the formation and propagation of polar cap...