Magnetosphere

ACE Solar Wind Archive Tutorial

A similar archive is available for ACE Solar Wind. When you select a time range, you will get two plots. One plot shows the speed of the protons in the soalr wind. The second plot shows the density of protons (number of protons per cubic centimeter) in the solar wind. These plots of protons in the solar wind can be useful for more advanced research. High speed, high density solar winds are often the result of coronal mass ejections. Although high speed solar winds can also be due to coronal holes. Coronal mass ejections and coronal holes can cause disturbances to Earth's magnetosphere.

For More ACE data, visit the Real Time Solar Wind website where you will see the page below.

In the left-hand column, click on 'Dynamic Plots'

The right frame will open a window that looks like the image below. At this point you can select the type of data and the time period you wish.