Activity from the Sun, such as solar flares, known as coronal mass eruptions, which cause plasma to be sent to Earth at supersonic speeds, can cause severe disruption to Earth’s atmosphere. with power and communication systems.
With our growing reliance on technology, solar storms pose a serious threat to our daily lives, leading to extreme space weather being added to risk assessment for the first time. country of Great Britain in 2011.
Dr. Andy Smith of Northumbria recently obtained a research grant from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to investigate how to use machine learning that is motivated by physics to make weather predictions that are more accurate. expecting dangerous space storms in space.
“For instance, in the UK, this would be coordinated through the Met Office, which would notify the National Grid and then activate procedures to protect our electrical grid.