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More About This Title Geomagnetically Induced Currents from the Sun tothe Power Grid
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Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) are a cross-disciplinary topic, involving science from solar physics, magnetospheric physics, aeronomy and ionospheric physics, as well as deep earth geophysics and power engineering. Topics addressed in Geomagnetically Induced Currents from the Sun to the Power Grid will cross-cut these genres, focusing only on the sub-fields that are relevant to GICs, such as geo-effective solar wind conditions, analysis of storm-time ionospheric parameters that produce the most hazardous GIC conditions, and validation techniques from actual power systems.
Volume highlights include:
- Background of what causes the geomagnetic storms that create GICs, methods and data used in analyzing GIC hazard on the surface of the earth
- Analyses of the impacts on the critical infrastructure of the bulk power system
- State of the art analysis techniques in the sub-domains of GIC research, such as the use of 3D conductivity data, magnetic observation interpolation techniques and new ways of validating and predicting GICs in real transmission systems
Geomagnetically Induced Currents from the Sun to the Power Grid is a valuable resource for a broad range of scientists, including space physicists, geophysicists, professionals working within the power industry, high-level undergraduate students and graduate students in earth and space sciences.
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Preface
Section I: Space Weather
1. Events on the Sun: Coronal mass ejections are large events
Phil Erickson (invited)
2. The geo-effective solar wind drivers of ground-level GIC
Alysha Renard or George Millward
3. Magnetospheric Disturbances and the external drivers of electric field hotspots
Jennifer Gannon
4. The contribution of the auroral electrojet to high latitude GIC
Tomoko Matsuo or Tim Fuller-Rowell
Section II: Geophysics
5. Geological Features of the United States
Peter Fernberg
6. The status of continental scale 3D electrical conductivity model of North America, and its role in protecting the electric power grid from GIC events
Anna Kelbert (USGS)
7. MT processing of storm time series
Gary Egbert or Alan Chave
8. Effects of geologic and space weather variability on storm-time electric fields
Stephen Cuttler / Andrei Swidinsky (CSM)
Section III: Surface Fields
9. Community coordinated ground-based magnetometer observations and their use in magnetoseismology research
Peter Chi (UCLA)
10. MHD models of B and their use in GIC estimates
Dan Welling (invited)
11. Empirical models of dB/dt and the accuracy of spectral content on GIC calculations
Daniel Weimer or Zhonghua Xu
12. Interpolating Geomagnetic Observations: Comparisons and Techniques
Josh Rigler (USGS)
Section IV: Power System Impacts
13. Electric field model validation from GIC measurements
Mark Butala (UIUC)
14. The types of impacts: transformer heating and half cycle saturation
Komal Shetye or Tom Overbye
15. Recovery and response costs: the potential impact on US economy
Kevin Forbes or Lisa Winter
16. Mitigating Power System response to GIC in known networks
Maryam Kazerooni (UIUC, TAMU)
17. Industry perspective: what’s needed for GIC operations
David Bertagnolli (invited)
Section V: Extreme Storm Scenarios
18. The extreme storm near-miss of 2012
Dan Baker
19. Extreme events in the UK power grid
Alan Thompson (invited)
