PhD Studentship: Extreme Space Weather: Modeling Rare Solar Storms and Their Impacts on Earth
Supervisor: Dr Ravindra Desai, University of Warwick
Space weather is driven by eruptions of plasma from the Sun’s surface called coronal mass ejections. Upon arrival at Earth, these not only extend the northern and southern lights to low latitudes but can knock out satellites, communications and entire power grids. Extreme events with low return periods are especially important for power plants where 1 in 10,000 year risk levels are required to be mitigated for. Through collaboration with EDF En...
