Quite unreal to announce that I got an @ERC_Research Consolidator grant for improving #spaceweather prediction! This is foremost a success by everyone in our team: Tanja/Ute Amerstorfer, Maike Bauer, Rachel Bailey, Martin Reiss, and Andreas Weiss.
Best. team. ever.
🧵 1/18 👇 A first shout-out goes to the Austrian Science Fund @FWF_at providing the funding that brought me here. My scientific career would have been completely impossible without it, and other grants by the @EU_Commission, including a Marie S. Curie fellowship.

Indeed there are solar storm events like @TamithaSkov described in which the flux rope type and orientation indicate either a strong deformation/rotation along the flux rope axis.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
(hope its not too much showing off one's own papers from a decade ago ...)

https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/1503780055406702594

The challenge is to find a model that can describe these multipoint in situ observations consistently with a single rope, not only locally cylindrical structures. A starting point could the recent paper led by our team member Andreas Weiss (under review) arxiv.org/abs/2202.10096

Our team has a new paper out lead by Martin Reiss on what is for sure one of the hardest problems in #spaceweather forecasting: predicting the magnetic field inside solar storms.
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#openaccess @AGUSpWx
@FWF_at @Know_Center @IWF_oeaw @UniGraz @ZAMG_AT
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20… Have you ever wondered why forecasts of solar storms, well, really suck? Nature has added this weird twist that for developing a geomagnetic storm (+ aurora), the magnetic field of Earth needs to be temporarily "cut up" by a solar storm so the magnetosphere can be energized.