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Solar Sector Boundary Crossing on February 1st, 2014 - Research Notes

02/03/2014

Compiled by David (mrloferlofer) - The previous Solar Sector Boundary Crossing was on January 21, 2014:

"SOLAR SECTOR BOUNDARY CROSSING: High-latitude auroras are possible on Jan. 21st when Earth crosses through a fold in the heliospheric current sheet. This is called a "solar sector boundary crossing," and NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when it occurs."

Source: Dr. Tony Phillips 'Time Machine' Site Archive.

According to NOAA's Forecast Discussion on February 2nd, 2014, published at 00:30 UTC & 12:30 UTC, a Solar Sector Boundary Crossing occurred the morning of February 1st @ 10:00 UTC:

"Around 1/1000 UTC a Solar Sector Boundary change from Away-to-Toward occurred ['+' is away from the Sun, '-' is toward the Sun is -]. The EPAM instrument indicated a slow rise in low energy particles, signalling the approach of the anticipated CME."

24-h Solar Wind Summary (@ 12:30 UTC): "Solar wind parameters were nominal with solar wind speed increasing slightly through the period from approximately 334 km/s to 380 km/s. Total field also saw a minor increase from 2 nT to 6 nT, while the Bz component was variable between +/-6 nT. Phi angle was mostly negative (towards) with minor deviations into a positive (away) sector."

Image adapted from Smith et al.

"Along the plane of the Sun's magnetic equator, the oppositely directed open field lines run parallel to each other and are separated by a thin current sheet known as the "interplanetary current sheet" or "heliospheric current sheet" (see the figure above). The current sheet is tilted (because of an offset between the Sun's rotational and magnetic axes) and warped (because of a quadrupole moment in the solar magnetic field) and thus has a wavy, "ballerina skirt"-like structure as it extends into interplanetary space (see the figure on the left).

Because the Earth is located sometimes above and sometimes below the rotating current sheet, it experiences regular, periodic changes in the polarity of the IMF. These periods of alternating positive (away from the Sun) and negative (toward the Sun) polarity are known as magnetic sectors." - Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF).

Research Paper Notes, Conclusions on Solar Sector Boundary Crossings:

"As the metatrader download solar wind flows away from the Sun, the IMF is carried with it and has a spiral shape. Along the ecliptic plane, the IMF generally has 2 or 4 sectors per solar rotation (27 days) where it is pointed toward or away from the Sun. The surface separating the polarities is called the heliospheric current sheet. A sector boundary olymp trade login account crossing occurs when the polarity of the IMF reverses. A well-defined sector boundary crossing has a uniform field direction for about 4 days before and after the crossing." - 'Effects Associated with the Sector Boundary Crossing on July 8, 1966.'

"It is concluded that Cosmic Ray density is high near the sector boundary. The decrease of neutron intensities after the boundary passage seem to be due to Forbush decreases which occur often after the boundary passages. The dominant part of cosmic ray density around the boundary correlates with solar wind velocity, irrespectively of the sense of IMF polarity change, and the increment per the change of solar wind velocity is consistent with the rate of 0.5% decrease per 100 km/s change derived by Lucci et al. (1979) and Munakata et al. (1979)." - 'IMF Sector Boundary and Cosmic Ray Intensity Variations.'

"Recent theoretical studies have shown that perturbations in the zonal equatorial electric field may be caused during conditions of enhanced geomagnetic activity by (a) a direct penetration of high latitude electric field associated with changes in the magnetospheric convection or changes in auroral or ring current systems (e.g., regs. 26-28) and (b) delayed changes in the atmospheric dynamo associated with large-scale perturbations in the thermospehric circulation owning to energy input to the high latitude thermosphere (29, 30).

The magnitude and olymp trade online direction of the perturbation electric field depend on a variety of conditions and the can enhance, oppose, or even reverse the normal equatorial electric field...All that can be inferred is that, on the average, westward (negative) perturbation electric fields prevail in the equatorial regions during the post-sunset period in wake of sector boundary passage owing to enhanced geomagnetic activity." - 'Response of the equatorial ionosphere to solar magnetic sector crossing.'

We can typically expect 2 to 4 Solar Sector Boundary Crossings per every 27 day Solar Rotation period. Solar Sector Boundaries are marked by a change in polarity of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field from positive (away from the Sun) and negative (towards the Sun). A list of Solar Sector Boundary crossings back from 1926 to the present exists over at Stanford's Wilcox Observatory Website.

Description from Leif Svalgaard: "The last two numbers are the number of days of each polarity on each side of the boundary, so "+,- 2014 01 10 18 9" means that there are 18 '+' days before the boundary and 9 '-' days after. This is to make it easy to do analysis, e.g. isolated SBs."

Ben (S0) recently commented about the rare, phenomenal explosion of auroras to start 2014, and especially the outburst visible at the beginning of February: "Earth's magnetic field has been slowly weakening since the 1600s, but recently has begun to rapidly decrease in strength, as much as 15%, according to NASA and the ESA. It is possible that the increased geomagnetic activity is a result of our weakening magnetic shield, and that it may continue to surprise us."

Don't forget to check out Hour 1 & 2 of Red Ice Radio's Interview with Ben (S0):

January 29th, 2014 - "We'll discuss the variable sun, its effects on earth and climate change. Ben elaborates on the connection between space weather, the natural environment and human condition. In the second hour, we discuss earthquakes, volcanoes and comets. How can we prepare for possible catastrophic changes on the horizon? Later, Ben talks about consciousness and placebo effect..."

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Solar Polar Earthquake Update - Fly on the Wall and Evening News Blurbs

01/29/2014

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Evening News Blurb -- (Jan. 21, 2014)

(0:01) Good evening folks, we'll start with the latest update from Stanford's Wilcox Solar Observatory.

Newest data is up: shows a pole reversal of the North Solar Field at the New Year. Indeed, the largest Earthquake we've had in two months came on January 1st: 6.6 in Vanuatu [Downgraded to a 6.5 Mag by the USGS].

Fly on the Wall - Jan. 25th, 2014:

'Fly on the Wall': Consists of interesting audio from Weekend Skype calls.

(41:15) And we were talking about the Earthquake correlations at Solar Polarity and I figured we'd better start recording this because this is going to get interesting.

And quick review for those who missed the 'Evening News' last night: we were talking about how the idea of Solar Polarity being significant to Earth is virtually identical to the idea that a Coronal Hole should be significant to Earth for Earthquakes.

And that's the idea that there are permanent Coronal Holes at the North and South Pole of the Sun.

If you look at the middle portion of the ENLIL Spiral Graphics, that basically show a side-cut, you'll notice that the Equatorial Solar Wind is much calmer than what's coming out of the Polar Regions of the Sun and that's due to the permanent Coronal Holes there and we see the same thing when a Coronal Hole is trans-equatorial or near the Solar Equator as it pumps out much harder solar wind in our direction.

FOTW -- Coronal Hole Call-back: "Because the Sun is a sphere magnet, and the Earth is a sphere magnet orbiting it with a now recognized electromagnetic connection too. It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility to consider that essentially a coronal hole is like pointing an extra strong magnet out of one part of that central star at our planet for a little bit and then taking it away…

It's not hard to see how that could potentially change, even only slightly, our orbital distance, our orbital speed, our angular momentum, our tilt; it wouldn't take much to have serious implications down under our feet."

(42:22) Now, we were talking last night [January 24th, 2014 FOTW Style Evening News] about how it's very, very clear that there's this direct connection between the solar wind and us…CMEs and Earth.

And then there's the Interplanetary Magnetic Field, our Magnetic Portal, which basically acts like a copper wire directly to the Sun which is why when it gets hit with a flare we get surged at the speed of light.

But people don't consider the fact that the Sun and Earth are both sphere magnets in an Electrical System; one orbiting around the other.

And you just think about a magnet where it's got the loops coming out one pole and going in the other; expanding out. And I said last night how they can only draw so many loops on a piece of paper, when in reality there's trillions coming out of the Earth at both poles and there's trillions coming out of the Sun at both poles. And while the Earth's only extend out to the Magnetosphere, the Sun's extend from the upper corona out past Pluto; some of those are going to interact with the Polar Fields of Earth as well.

And so we have just as strong and a permanent magnetic connection or polar connection to our Star in that way, just like we have the ones we commonly think of. So that's one of the reasons why if you have listened to and understand that these Coronal Holes allow the magnetic force of the Sun to be unabated and just push out as hard as it can, or has hard as it wants to at that moment.

(44:04) Well it's constantly doing that at the poles, there are no coronal or umbral fields down there; so it's just pumping out as hard as it wants. And we know just from the principles of magnets, and knowing how far the Heliosphere balloons out, that we have a connection to our Star in that way as well.

So lets take that and go one step further...

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Mount Sinabung Volcano Erupts Over 200 times - Red Lightning & Infrasound

01/22/2014

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Written by Billy (mr2tuff) & David (mrloferlofer)

Having laid dormant for over 400 years, Mount Sinabung began showing signs of awakening in August of 2010. After several days of rumbling, Mount Sinabung erupted on August 29th, 2010 killing two. The eruption blew ash 1.5 km (1 mile) into the atmosphere, with lava overrunning one of it’s four craters prompting the evacuation of about 30,000 residents.

Around 6,000 villagers returned to their homes on August 31st, 2010 only to flee again a week later as more eruptions occurred. The eruption on September 3rd, 2010 turned out to be much larger than the previous weeks. This particular eruption sent ash clouds 3 km (1.9 miles) high, with earthquake tremors felt as far as 25 km (15.5 miles) away.

Another eruption on September 7th, 2010 had an even larger explosion, which was heard up to 8 km (4.9 miles) away. The ash cloud mixed-in with heavy rains and produced a centimetre thick layer of “muddy ash,” which blanketed crops, homes and buildings.

Mount Sinabung went relatively quiet after the September 7th, 2010 eruption, which allowed villagers to return to their homes in Kabanjahe and Berastagi; the two cities closest to the volcano. Only minor rumbles were reported from September 2010 to September 2013.

Mt. Sinabung: Late 2013 to the Present

In the second week of September 2013, Mount Sinabung roared back to life. Around 4,000 people fled their homes, seeking temporary shelter. Three active weeks later, officials were compelled to evacuate around 14,000 people following a major eruption that hurled an ash cloud 7 km (4.3 miles) into the atmosphere. A 5 km (3.1 mile) evacuation zone was cleared out.

At least one major ash cloud had been ejected everyday leading up to November 11th, 2013. On November 11th, Mount Sinabung experienced the first of many pyroclastic flows, which were sent speeding down it’s southeast face. These pyroclastic flows were caused by the frequent collapse of the unstable lava dome that had formed on Sinabung’s peak.

The Latest Series of Eruptions from Mount Sinabung, as of January 2014:

According to National Geographic, during the week of January 4th, 2014 through January 9th, Mount Sinabung managed to erupt more than 220 times; with over 100 eruptions occurring in one day alone. By January 16th, pyroclastic flows had traveled over 4.5 km (2.8 miles) down the mountain side.

Volcanic Ash once again smothered crops and nearby villages, forcing a permanent evacuation of the surrounding population.

S0 News January 22, 2014: STARWATER...Proven -- (0:04) Good morning folks, couple quick items for you to check out. First, excellent footage of Sinabung; the disaster underway. These videos from The Telegraph are outstanding, you can even catch that rare volcanic lightning we've looked for in the past...

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Billy on the Faraday Cage

01/10/2014

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Written by Billy (Mr2tuff)

A Faraday Cage is an enclosure formed by conductive material. These enclosures are capable of blocking external static and non-static electric fields. The Faraday Cage was named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who first invented it in 1836 in order to “shield their contents from static electric fields." An electric field surrounds a charged particle, such as an electron or proton.

With the increased threat of a Carrington Flare type event, or even nuclear war, knocking out our power and sensitive electronics, I feel that it is important and necessary to send-out a message to all the do-it-yourselfers out there in order to go over just a few of the many designs available.

The main purpose of this blog is quite simple: to create our own Faraday cage in order to protect our sensitive electronic equipment from the high currents produced by extreme Solar Storms and electromagnetic pulses, which are capable of electromagnetically over-charging Earth’s atmosphere.

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S0's 'Earthquakes and the Solar System' Video Transcript

01/07/2014

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"I was searching for an answer to the mysterious seismic lulls where the normal factors appeared less relevant for a month at a time once or twice per year.

The findings are far more interesting…"

(0:16) Hey folks, we're going to take a look at some data. Solar Polar Fields since 2003, a chart from Stanford University.

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Merck's Zilmax: Just the Latest Human-Driven Harm to Nature

01/02/2014

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Written by Ben (S0)

It has been an exciting start to the new year - a 6.6 earthquake in Vanuatu and a solar uptick. Amidst the natural events, the new blog and other updates, it would be easy to forget about Reuters’ article, 'Special Report: Lost hooves, dead cattle before Merck halted Zilmax sales,' which was featured in January 1st, 2014’s morning news video.

"(Reuters) - The U.S. beef industry's dependence on the muscle-building drug Zilmax began unraveling here, on a sweltering summer day, in the dusty cattle pens outside a Tyson Foods Inc slaughterhouse in southeastern Washington state.

…The animals had lost their hooves, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture documents reviewed by Reuters...The next day, the hottest day of the month, two more animals with missing hooves arrived by truck. Again, the animals were destroyed, the documents show.

The animals' feet were 'basically coming apart,' said Keith Belk, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University.

...In the weeks before the cattle were shipped to Tyson's slaughterhouse, outside the city limits of Pasco, all had been fed Merck & Co Inc's profit-enhancing animal feed additive, Zilmax..."

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Are One World Trade Center's 'eerie noises' Infrasound?

01/01/2014

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Written By David (mrloferlofer)

Residents living around One WTC have been reporting strange sounds coming from the building, which is still under construction, on windy nights for a little over a year now.

A local news article published by PIX11 on December 3rd, 2013 points out an important anecdote, "Animal New York reports that residents began hearing the strange howling, whistling sounds during Hurricane Sandy last year."

The most recent reports came in late November, early December. New York City's Port Authority has weighed in on the subject:

NEW YORK (PIX11) - The Port Authority, which owns the World Trade Center site, says the noise is probably just the wind and far from paranormal.

A rep for the authority told PIX11 that the agency cannot confirm if any of the reported noises are in fact even coming from One World Trade or any of the other buildings in the area.

The building is still under construction, the rep stressed, and equipment moving in and out of giant, open shafts could in theory create a 'wind tunnel.' Four World Trade Center is also an active construction site, with lots of space for wind to move through, the spokesperson said."

Hurricane Sandy Video Published on Oct. 29th, 2012:

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'The Cosmic Ray Factor of a Solar Magnetic Shutdown' S0s Transcript

12/15/2013

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(0:01) Good evening folks, the first part of tonights news will be a follow-up to 'They Want to Blame You,' if you haven't seen it you could Google that, or, hit pause and click the Link in the 'About' section; it'll open up a new window.

(0:11) Tonight is not the night to ignore the 'Link List' by the way; interested parties will lack free-time for at least a day.

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'The Weak Solar Cycle & Its Consequences - Press Conference' S0s Transcript

12/14/2013

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'FOTW - S0 Notes: December 12, 2013'

(0:01) Alright Guys, so I just watched a video; it's called: 'The Current Weak Solar Cycle and Its Consequences - Press Conference' it was posted on the YouTube Channel of the American Geophysical Union, better known as AGU.

(0:16) It was published on December 11th, 2013, I'm looking at it at about 3pm on December 12th, just a day later. Now what this was is they just basically posted a recording of a four Scientist panel, press conference or web conference, as it were.

(0:42) Two of the scientists were from NASA: one from Langley, one from Goddard. Another from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and Leif Svalgaard one of our favorites out of Stanford.

American Geophysical Union's panel of four top scientists:

Nat Gopalswamy: Solar Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Leif Svalgaard: W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
Marty Mlynczak: Climate Science Branch, NASA Langley Research Center
Joe Giacalone: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona

To Summarize Nat Gopalswamy's points:

-Reduced total pressure in the Heliosphere makes the CMEs expand more.

-Expansion of CMEs results in reduced Magnetic Field strength inside CMEs, which leads to weaker Geomagnetic Storms.

-The reduced magnetic field in the heliosphere does not allow the shocks to accelerate particles to high energies, leading to low-level particle events.

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DMT: The Reality Molecule & Space Weather Effects

12/13/2013

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There are many pieces to the puzzle, this one will simply be a review of some of the known Mechanisms modulating our daily reality.

These partial transcriptions of the documentary 'DMT: The Spiritual Molecule' and two lectures by Michael Persinger, will be inter-spliced with a few scholarly quotes in order to further our current understanding of Endogenous Chemical Release via Space Weather's effects on the Human Condition.

[Dennis McKenna, PhD - Ethnopharmacologist]:

(1:40) One of the things, besides what it does, one of the things about DMT that always fascinated me was the fact that: it's such a simple molecule.

[Dave Nichols, PhD - Medicinal Chemist]:

(1:51) DMT stands for Dimethyltryptamine, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine. If you actually look at the ring structure of DMT itself, you only have really four positions that you can attach things to. So, you can make Diethyl, or dipropyl; there are some other types of carbon chains you can attach to that end that do give you compounds that do have activity, but very different from DMT.

[Dennis McKenna, PhD - Ethnopharmacologist]:

(2:20) Biosynthetically it's two steps from tryptophan, right, two trivial enzymatic steps from tryptophan. Well, tryptophan is an amino acid, of course, and it's everywhere. So, all organisms have tryptophan. And all organisms have the two key enzymes that lead to the synthesis of DMT. And these enzymes are very ancient enzymes, they're all over the place, they're again part of basic metabolism; so theoretically anything could synthesize DMT.

[Graham Hancock, Writer]:

(3:02) DMT is astonishingly, widely available in plants and animals all around the world, but so far nobody really knows why it's there or what it's function is.

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