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Maria D. Kazachenko Richard C. Canfield Dana W. Longcope Jiong Qiu 《Solar physics》2012,277(1):165-183
In order to better understand the solar genesis of interplanetary magnetic clouds (MCs), we model the magnetic and topological
properties of four large eruptive solar flares and relate them to observations. We use the three-dimensional Minimum Current Corona model (Longcope, 1996, Solar Phys.
169, 91) and observations of pre-flare photospheric magnetic field and flare ribbons to derive values of reconnected magnetic
flux, flare energy, flux rope helicity, and orientation of the flux-rope poloidal field. We compare model predictions of those
quantities to flare and MC observations, and within the estimated uncertainties of the methods used find the following: The
predicted model reconnection fluxes are equal to or lower than the reconnection fluxes inferred from the observed ribbon motions.
Both observed and model reconnection fluxes match the MC poloidal fluxes. The predicted flux-rope helicities match the MC
helicities. The predicted free energies lie between the observed energies and the estimated total flare luminosities. The
direction of the leading edge of the MC’s poloidal field is aligned with the poloidal field of the flux rope in the AR rather
than the global dipole field. These findings compel us to believe that magnetic clouds associated with these four solar flares
are formed by low-corona magnetic reconnection during the eruption, rather than eruption of pre-existing structures in the
corona or formation in the upper corona with participation of the global magnetic field. We also note that since all four
flares occurred in active regions without significant pre-flare flux emergence and cancelation, the energy and helicity that
we find are stored by shearing and rotating motions, which are sufficient to account for the observed radiative flare energy
and MC helicity. 相似文献
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In the following study our aim is to analyse the magnetic flux-rope topology of some events observed in the interplanetary medium related to ejecta. The magnetic field structures associated with interplanetary coronal mass ejections are globally classified in magnetic clouds and ejecta. One of the main questions regarding these phenomena concerns their flux-rope or non-flux-rope magnetic field line configuration. From the experimental measurements the only way to elucidate such a question is analysing the corresponding data by means of a flux-rope physical model. After selecting the ejecta events observed during the period 1997?–?2006, we have analysed them in light of an analytical model with that topology for the magnetic field components, initially developed for magnetic clouds, and with a non-force-free character; then, incorporating the expansion of the magnetic structure during their evolution in the interplanetary medium. Different parameters obtained from the fitting of the model are related to the orientation of the axis of the magnetic flux-rope structure and, additionally, the closest distance approach of the spacecraft to its axis. One of the main conclusions achieved concerns the fact that the axes of most of those structures are close to the Sun–Earth line, which implies that the passage of the spacecraft through the corresponding ejecta event is by its flank. In general, we show a rough procedure for the analysis and classification of ejecta in terms of their magnetic field topology. 相似文献
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Flux ropes are twisted magnetic structures that can be detected by in-situ measurements in the solar wind. However, different properties of detected flux ropes suggest different types of flux-rope populations. As such, are there different populations of flux ropes? The answer is positive and is the result of the analysis of four lists of flux ropes, including magnetic clouds (MCs), observed at 1 AU. The in-situ data for the four lists were fitted with the same cylindrical force-free field model, which provides an estimate of the local flux-rope parameters such as its radius and orientation. Since the flux-rope distributions have a broad dynamic range, we went beyond a simple histogram analysis by developing a partition technique that uniformly distributes the statistical fluctuations across the radius range. By doing so, we found that small flux ropes with radius R<0.1 AU have a steep power-law distribution in contrast to the larger flux ropes (identified as MCs), which have a Gaussian-like distribution. Next, from four CME catalogs, we estimated the expected flux-rope frequency per year at 1 AU. We found that the predicted numbers are similar to the frequencies of MCs observed in-situ. However, we also found that small flux ropes are at least ten times too abundant to correspond to CMEs, even to narrow ones. Investigating the different possible scenarios for the origin of these small flux ropes, we conclude that these twisted structures can be formed by blowout jets in the low corona or in coronal streamers. 相似文献
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E. K. J. Kilpua P. C. Liewer C. Farrugia J. G. Luhmann C. Möstl Y. Li Y. Liu B. J. Lynch C. T. Russell A. Vourlidas M. H. Acuna A. B. Galvin D. Larson J. A. Sauvaud 《Solar physics》2009,254(2):325-344
We analyze a series of complex interplanetary events and their solar origins that occurred between 19 and 23 May 2007 using
observations by the STEREO and Wind satellites. The analyses demonstrate the new opportunities offered by the STEREO multispacecraft configuration for diagnosing
the structure of in situ events and relating them to their solar sources. The investigated period was characterized by two high-speed solar wind streams
and magnetic clouds observed in the vicinity of the sector boundary. The observing satellites were separated by a longitudinal
distance comparable to the typical radial extent of magnetic clouds at 1 AU (fraction of an AU), and, indeed, clear differences
were evident in the records from these spacecraft. Two partial-halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were launched from the same
active region less than a day apart, the first on 19 May and the second on 20 May 2007. The clear signatures of the magnetic
cloud associated with the first CME were observed by STEREO B and Wind while only STEREO A recorded clear signatures of the magnetic cloud associated with the latter CME. Both magnetic clouds
appeared to have interacted strongly with the ambient solar wind and the data showed evidence that they were a part of the
coronal streamer belt. Wind and STEREO B also recorded a shocklike disturbance propagating inside a magnetic cloud that compressed the field and plasma
at the cloud’s trailing portion. The results illustrate how distant multisatellite observations can reveal the complex structure
of the extension of the coronal streamer into interplanetary space even during the solar activity minimum.
Electronic Supplementary Material The online version of this article () contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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M. J. Owens 《Solar physics》2018,293(8):122
Magnetic field and plasma properties of the solar wind measured in near-Earth space are a convolution of coronal source conditions and in-transit processes which take place between the corona and near-Earth space. Elemental composition and heavy ion charge states, however, are not significantly altered during transit to Earth and thus such properties can be used to diagnose the coronal source conditions of the solar wind observed in situ. We use data from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft to statistically quantify differences in the coronal source properties of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). Magnetic clouds, ICMEs which contain a magnetic flux-rope signature, display heavy ion properties consistent with significantly hotter coronal source regions than non-cloud ICMEs. Specifically, magnetic clouds display significantly elevated ion charge states, suggesting they receive greater heating in the low corona. Further dividing ICMEs by speed, however, shows this effect is primarily limited to fast magnetic clouds and that in terms of heavy ion properties, slow magnetic clouds are far more similar to non-cloud ICMEs. As such, fast magnetic clouds appear distinct from other ICME types in terms of both ion charge states and elemental composition. ICME speed, rather ICME type, correlates with helium abundance and iron charge state, consistent with fast ICMEs being heated through the more extended corona. Fast ICMEs also tend to be embedded within faster ambient solar wind than slow ICMEs, though this could be partly the result of in-transit drag effects. These signatures are discussed in terms of spatial sampling of ICMEs and from fundamentally different coronal formation and release processes. 相似文献
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Applying ACE data and pressure-corrected Dst index (Dst*), annual distributions of solar wind structures detected at L1 point (the first Lagrangian point between solar-terrestrial interval) and correlations between solar wind structures and geomagnetic storms in 1998-2008 have been studied. It was found that, within the Earth's upstream solar wind, the dominant feature was interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), primarily magnetic clouds, during solar maximum period but corotating interaction regions (CIRs) at solar minimum. During rising and declining phases, solar wind features became unstable for the complicated solar corona transition processes between the maximum and minimum phases, and there was a high CIR occurrence rate in 2003, the early period of the declining phase, for the Earth's upstream solar wind was dominated by high-speed southern coronal-hole outflows at that time. The occurrence rate of sector boundary crossing (SBC) events was evidently higher at the late half of declining phase and minimum period. ICMEs mainly centered on the maximum period but CIRs on all the declining phase. The occurrence rate of ICMEs was 1.3 times of that of CIRs, and more than half of ICMEs were magnetic clouds (MCs). Half of magnetic clouds could drive interplanetary shock and played a crucial role for geomagnetic storms generation, especially intense storms (Dst*≤100 nT), in which 45% were jointly induced by sheath region and driving MC structure. Sixty percent of intense storms were totally induced by shock-driving MCs; moreover, 74% of intense storms were driven by magnetic clouds, 81% of them driven by ICMEs. Shock-driving MC was the most geoeffective interplanetary source for four fifths of it able to lead to storms and more than one-third to intense storms. The rest of intense storms (19%) were induced just by 3% of all detected CIRs, and most of CIRs (53%) were corresponding to nearly 40% moderate and small storms (−100 nT<Dst*≤−30 nT). The true sector boundary crossing (SBC) events actually had no obvious geoeffectiveness, just 6% of them corresponding to small storms. 相似文献
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We studied the cosmic ray intensity variation due to interplanetary magnetic clouds during an unusual class of low amplitude
anisotropic wave train events. The low amplitude anisotropic wave train events in cosmic ray intensity have been identified
using the data of ground based Deep River neutron monitor and studied during the period 1981–1994. Even though the occurrence
of low amplitude anisotropic wave trains does not depend on the onset of interplanetary magnetic clouds, but the possibility
of occurrence of these events cannot be overlooked during the periods of the interplanetary magnetic cloud events. It is observed
that the solar wind velocity remains higher (> 300) than normal and the interplanetary magnetic field B remains lower than normal on the onset of the interplanetary magnetic cloud during the passage of low amplitude wave trains.
It is also noted that the proton density remains significantly low during high solar wind velocity, which is expected. The
north south component of interplanetary magnetic field Bz turns southward to one day before the arrival of cloud and remains in the southward direction after the arrival of a cloud.
During these events the cosmic ray intensity is found to increase with increase of solar wind velocity. The superposed epoch
analysis of cosmic ray intensity for these events during the onset of interplanetary magnetic clouds reveals that the decrease
in cosmic ray intensity starts not at the onset of the cloud but after a few days. The cosmic ray intensity increases on arrival
of the magnetic cloud and decreases gradually after the passage of the magnetic cloud. 相似文献
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We investigated a set of 54 interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) events whose solar sources are very close to the disk center (within ±?15° from the central meridian). The ICMEs consisted of 23 magnetic-cloud (MC) events and 31 non-MC events. Our analyses suggest that the MC and non-MC ICMEs have more or less the same eruption characteristics at the Sun in terms of soft X-ray flares and CMEs. Both types have significant enhancements in ion charge states, although the non-MC structures have slightly lower levels of enhancement. The overall duration of charge-state enhancement is also considerably smaller than that in MCs as derived from solar wind plasma and magnetic signatures. We find very good correlation between the Fe and O charge-state measurements and the flare properties such as soft X-ray flare intensity and flare temperature for both MCs and non-MCs. These observations suggest that both MC and non-MC ICMEs are likely to have a flux-rope structure and the unfavorable observational geometry may be responsible for the appearance of non-MC structures at 1 AU. We do not find any evidence for an active region expansion resulting in ICMEs lacking a flux-rope structure because the mechanism of producing high charge states and the flux-rope structure at the Sun is the same for MC and non-MC events. 相似文献
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We compare the temporal and spatial properties of posteruption arcades (PEAs) associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Sun that end up as magnetic cloud (MC) and non-MC events in the solar wind. We investigate the length, width, area, tilt angle, and formation time of the PEAs associated with 22 MC and 29 non-MC events and we find no difference between the two populations. According to current ideas on the relation between flares and CMEs, the PEA is formed together with the CME flux-rope structure by magnetic reconnection. Our results indicate that at the Sun flux ropes form during CMEs in association with both MC and non-MC events; however, for non-MC events the flux-rope structure is not observed in the interplanetary space because of the geometry of the observation, i.e. the location of the spacecraft when the structure passes through it. 相似文献
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The Grad–Shafranov reconstruction is a method of estimating the orientation (invariant axis) and cross section of magnetic
flux ropes using the data from a single spacecraft. It can be applied to various magnetic structures such as magnetic clouds
(MCs) and flux ropes embedded in the magnetopause and in the solar wind. We develop a number of improvements of this technique
and show some examples of the reconstruction procedure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) observed at 1 AU by
the STEREO, Wind, and ACE spacecraft during the minimum following Solar Cycle 23. The analysis is conducted not only for ideal localized ICME
events but also for non-trivial cases of magnetic clouds in fast solar wind. The Grad–Shafranov reconstruction gives reasonable
results for the sample events, although it possesses certain limitations, which need to be taken into account during the interpretation
of the model results. 相似文献
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Jae-Ok Lee Kyung-Suk Cho Rok-Soon Kim Soojeong Jang Katsuhide Marubashi 《Solar physics》2018,293(9):129
To better understand geomagnetic storm generations by ICMEs, we consider the effect of substructures (magnetic cloud, MC, and sheath) and geometries (impact location of flux-rope at the Earth) of the ICMEs. We apply the toroidal magnetic flux-rope model to 59 CDAW CME–ICME pairs to identify their substructures and geometries, and select 20 MC-associated and five sheath-associated storm events. We investigate the relationship between the storm strength indicated by minimum Dst index \((\mathrm{Dst}_{\mathrm{min}})\) and solar wind conditions related to a southward magnetic field. We find that all slopes of linear regression lines for sheath-storm events are steeper (\({\geq}\,1.4\)) than those of the MC-storm events in the relationship between \(\mathrm{Dst}_{\mathrm{min}}\) and solar wind conditions, implying that the efficiency of sheath for the process of geomagnetic storm generations is higher than that of MC. These results suggest that different general solar wind conditions (sheaths have a higher density, dynamic and thermal pressures with a higher fluctuation of the parameters and higher magnetic fields than MCs) have different impact on storm generation. Regarding the geometric encounter of ICMEs, 100% (2/2) of major storms (\(\mathrm{Dst}_{\mathrm{min}} \leq -100~\mbox{nT}\)) occur in the regions at negative \(P_{Y}\) (relative position of the Earth trajectory from the ICME axis in the \(Y\) component of the GSE coordinate) when the eastern flanks of ICMEs encounter the Earth. We find similar statistical trends in solar wind conditions, suggesting that the dependence of geomagnetic storms on 3D ICME–Earth impact geometries is caused by asymmetric distributions of the geoeffective solar wind conditions. For western flank events, 80% (4/5) of the major storms occur in positive \(P_{Y}\) regions, while intense geoeffective solar wind conditions are not located in the positive \(P_{Y}\). These results suggest that the strength of geomagnetic storms depends on ICME–Earth impact geometries as they determine the solar wind conditions at Earth. 相似文献
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We have analyze the set of 70 intense geomagnetic storms associatedwith Dst decrease of more than 100 nT, observed duringthe period (1986–1991). We have compile these selected intensegeomagnetic storm events and find out their association with twotypes of solar wind streams and different interplanetary parameters.We concluded that the maximum numbers of intense geomagneticstorms are associated with transient disturbances in solar wind streams,which causes strong interplanetary shocks in interplanetary medium.The association of supersonic shocks and magnetic clouds with intensegeomagnetic storms have also been discussed. 相似文献
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An extended Ulysses interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) list is used to statistically study the occurrence rate of ICMEs, the interaction
of ICMEs with solar wind, and the magnetic field properties in ICMEs. About 43% of the ICMEs are identified as magnetic clouds
(MCs). It is found that the occurrence rate of ICMEs approximately follows the solar activity level, except for the second
solar orbit; the rate is higher in the southern heliolatitude than in the northern heliolatitude; and it roughly decreases
with the increase of ICME speeds. Our results show that the speed difference between the ICME and the solar wind in front
of it shows a slight decrease with increasing heliocentric distance for ICMEs preceded by a shock, whereas no such dependence
is found for the ICMEs without shock association. It is also found that approximately 23% of the ICMEs are associated with
radial field events, in which the interplanetary magnetic field with near-radial direction lasts for many hours, in the Ulysses detected range, and these associated events are not necessarily confined to fast ICMEs or the trailing portions of ICMEs.
Nearly all these associated events occur during the period of declining solar wind speed and most of them occur at low heliolatitudes. 相似文献
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Binod Adhikari Nirakar Sapkota Prashrit Baruwal Narayan P. Chapagain Carlos Roberto Braga 《Solar physics》2017,292(10):149
Geomagnetic disturbances are the results of interplanetary causes such as high-speed streamers (HSSs), interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), corotating interaction regions (CIRs), and magnetic clouds. During different forms of geomagnetic disturbances, we observed changes in the count rate at neutron monitors that are kept at various locations. We studied the count rates measured by neutron monitors at four stations at various latitudes during different categories of geomagnetic events and compared them. We analysed five events: a geomagnetically quiet event, a non-storm high-intensity long-duration continuous AE activity (HILDCAA) event, a storm-preceded HILDCAA event, a geomagnetic substorm event, and a geomagnetic moderate storm event. We based our analysis on geomagnetic indices, solar wind parameters, and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) parameters. We found that the strength of the modulation was least during the quiet event and highest during the storm-preceded HILDCAA. By analysing the cause of these geomagnetic disturbances, we related each decrease in the neutron monitor data with the corresponding solar cause. For the ICME-driven storm, we observed a decrease in neutron monitor data ranging from 6% to 12% in all stations. On the other hand, we observed a decrease ranging from 2% to 5% for the HSS-driven storm. For the non-storm HILDCAA, we observed a decrease in neutron monitor data of about 1% to 1.5%. For the quiet event, the neutron monitor data fluctuated such that there was no overall decrease in all stations. 相似文献
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Among all the signatures of solar ejecta in interplanetary space, magnetic clouds are particularly interesting. We have shown that they are associated with solar mass ejections that involve not only coronal heights, but also chromospheric heights and so, they are almost always associated with low-altitude solar activity such as H flares or filament eruptions. As a magnetic cloud is a very large structure, and not all the ejecta found in the interplanetary medium are clouds, it is interesting to investigate the characteristics of the large-scale coronal magnetic structures in the regions where the activity leading to a cloud takes place. In this paper we use Hoeksema's potential field model of the solar magnetosphere to obtain the magnetic structure of the site of the solar events associated with 35 interplanetary magnetic clouds. The position of the related solar activity was determined from the location of the near-surface solar explosive events (flares and filament eruptions) associated with each cloud, obtained in our previous study. We find that the solar activity associated with interplanetary magnetic clouds occurs in regions of low-altitude, magnetically closed structures lying between higher helmets, or between the highest helmets and coronal holes, where the magnetic field lines are longitudinally oriented. 相似文献
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Astrophysics - We study the modulation of galactic cosmic rays due to magnetic clouds observed during solar cycles 23 and 24 (1996-2018). We utilize solar wind plasma and field data together with... 相似文献
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Marit Øieroset David A. Brain David L. Mitchell Jasper S. Halekas Mario H. Acuña 《Icarus》2010,206(1):189-198
More than 490 elliptical aerobraking and science phasing orbits made by Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) in 1997 and 1998 provide unprecedented coverage of the solar wind in the vicinity of the orbits of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos. We have performed a comprehensive survey of magnetic field perturbations in the solar wind to search for possible signatures of solar wind interaction with dust or gas escaping from the moons. A total of 1246 solar wind disturbance events were identified and their distribution was examined relative to Phobos, the Phobos orbit, and the Deimos orbit. We find that the spatial distribution of solar wind perturbations does not increase near or downstream of Phobos, Phobos’ orbit, or Deimos’ orbit, which would have been expected if there is significant outgassing or dust escape from the martian moons. Of the 1246 magnetic field perturbation events found in the MGS data set, 11 events were found within 2000 km of the Phobos orbit, while three events were found within 2000 km of the Deimos orbit. These events were analyzed in detail and found to likely have other causes than outgassing/dust escape from the martian moons. Thus we conclude that the amount of gas/dust escaping the martian moons is not significant enough to induce detectable magnetic field perturbations in the solar wind. In essence we have not found any clear evidence in the MGS magnetic field data for outgassing or dust escape from the martian moons. 相似文献
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由磁绳结构主导、平均尺度约二、三十个小时的行星际磁云是日冕物质抛射在行星际膨胀、传播的体现。最近，Moldwin等人报道在太阳风中还观测到一些尺度在几十分钟的小尺度磁绳结构，并认为太阳风中的磁绳结构在尺度分布上可能具有双峰特征，在全面检视了WIND卫星(1995年-2000年)和ACE卫星(1998年-2000年)的观测资料后，发现了在行星际太阳风中一些尺度为几个小时的中尺度磁绳结构，利用初步整理的其中28个中尺度磁绳结构事件，认为太阳风中的磁绳结构在尺度分布上可能是连续的，这对行星际太阳风中磁绳结构物理起源的研究可能提出重要的物理限制。 相似文献
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The solar wind quasi-invariant (QI) has been defined by Osherovich, Fainberg, and Stone (Geophys. Res. Lett.
26, 2597, 1999) as the ratio of magnetic energy density and the energy density of the solar wind flow. In the regular solar wind QI is a
rather small number, since the energy of the flow is almost two orders of magnitude greater than the magnetic energy. However,
in magnetic clouds, QI is the order of unity (less than 1) and thus magnetic clouds can be viewed as a great anomaly in comparison
with its value in the background solar wind. We study the duration, extent, and amplitude of this anomaly for two groups of
isolated magnetic clouds: slow clouds (360<v<450 km s−1) and fast clouds (450≤v<720 km s−1). By applying the technique of superposition of epochs to 12 slow and 12 fast clouds from the catalog of Richardson and Cane
(Solar Phys. 264, 189, 2010), we create an average slow cloud and an average fast cloud observed at 1 AU. From our analysis of these average clouds,
we obtain cloud boundaries in both time and space as well as differences in QI amplitude and other parameters characterizing
the solar wind state. Interplanetary magnetic clouds are known to cause major magnetic storms at the Earth, especially those
clouds which travel from the sun to the Earth at high speeds. Characterizing each magnetic cloud by its QI value and extent
may help in understanding the role of those disturbances in producing geomagnetic activity. 相似文献
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Louise K. Harra Nancy U. Crooker Cristina H. Mandrini Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi Sergio Dasso Jingxiu Wang Heather Elliott Gemma Attrill Bernard V. Jackson Mario M. Bisi 《Solar physics》2007,244(1-2):95-114
We describe the interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) that occurred as a result of a series of solar flares and eruptions
from 4 to 8 November 2004. Two ICMEs/magnetic clouds occurring from these events had opposite magnetic orientations. This
was despite the fact that the major flares related to these events occurred within the same active region that maintained
the same magnetic configuration. The solar events include a wide array of activities: flares, trans-equatorial coronal loop
disappearance and reformation, trans-equatorial filament eruption, and coronal hole interaction. The first major ICME/magnetic
cloud was predominantly related to the active region 10696 eruption. The second major ICME/magnetic cloud was found to be
consistent with the magnetic orientation of an erupting trans-equatorial filament or else a rotation of 160° of a flux rope
in the active region. We discuss these possibilities and emphasize the importance of understanding the magnetic evolution
of the solar source region before we can begin to predict geoeffective events with any accuracy. 相似文献