Would someone please explain what the Solar Flux, Boulder A-Index and Boulder K-Index numbers represent?
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Hello Bob.
09 Oct 00 06:44, you wrote to Noaa Wwv:
Would someone please explain what the Solar Flux, Boulder A-Index and Boulder K-Index numbers represent?
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Center.
I believe 'Solar Flux' numbers are the amount of sun-spots per day.
The NOAA is located in Boulder, Colorado; which would explain the
'Boulder' before the A-Index and K-Index, but I'm not up to date on what those two indexes mean.
... Real HAMS do it till their Mega Hertz.
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The forecast for the next 24 hours follows.
Solar activity will be moderate.
The geomagnetic field will be quiet to unsettled.
Quite unreliable forecast in my opinion.
This question has come up in the past. The best answer I've seen is
that local conditions may vary markedly.
The ionosphere is not a uniform layer, but has large local variations. CH>What might be perfectly valid for the actual forecast location may be CH>quite different some thousands of kilometers away.
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