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From: Climatological predictions of the auroral zone locations driven by moderate and severe space weather events

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Auroral zones and danger zones for 2020 and 2070 for the mean MPG forecast. (a) Auroral zones for the 2020 (in red) and 2070 (in blue) epochs. The AACGM latitudes for the 2020 epoch are calculated from geomagnetic field coefficients given by the IGRF-13. For the 2070 epoch the AACGM coordinates were calculated from the mean MPG forecast. The red and blue diamonds indicate the location of the geomagnetic poles at 2020 and 2070, respectively. The red and blue triangles indicate the location of the magnetic dip poles at 2020 and 2070, respectively. (b) Near-side projection of the regions exposed to severe space weather events (‘danger zones’) for the 2020 (the orange bands) and 2070 (the cyan bands) epochs. The AACGM latitudes for the 2020 epoch are calculated from geomagnetic field coefficients given by the IGRF-13. For the 2070 epoch the AACGM coordinates were calculated from the mean MPG forecast. All maps were generated in Python 3.8 with the library cartopy (version 0.18.0).

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