Some Features of Interacting Solar Wind Disturbances

• Published in: Geomagnetism and Aeronomy Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 457 - 467
• Main Authors: Shlyk, N. S., Belov, A. V., Abunina, M. A., Belov, S. M., Abunin, A. A., Oleneva, V. A., Yanke, V. G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.08.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Charged particles; Coronal holes; Coronal mass ejection; Cosmic ray showers; Cosmic rays; Disturbances; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Expected values; Galactic cosmic rays; Geomagnetic activity; Geomagnetism; Geophysics/Geodesy; Interplanetary medium; Magnetic fields; Moon; Parameters; Propagation; Rigidity; Solar corona; Solar wind; Solar wind disturbances; Wind effects; coronal mass ejections; geomagnetic activity; Forbush effects; high-speed streams from coronal holes; solar wind
• ISSN: 0016-7932; 1555-645X; 0016-7940
• DOI: 10.1134/S0016793224600280

The updated database of Forbush effects and interplanetary disturbances ( https://tools.izmiran.ru/feid ) is used for an extensive analysis of various characteristics of events caused by the influence of interacting solar wind disturbances on the near-Earth space. In particular, the cases of different combinations of the pair interaction of high-speed streams from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections over the long period from 1995 to 2022 are considered. Variations in the flux of galactic cosmic rays (with a rigidity of 10 GV) and changes in the parameters of the interplanetary medium and geomagnetic activity are described. It is shown that the degree of mutual influence depends on the time between the detection of neighboring events; with the most pronounced changes in various parameters for events whose interaction occurred before reaching Earth’s orbit. It is also established that in interacting solar wind disturbances not only the extremes of the parameters of cosmic rays, interplanetary medium, and geomagnetic activity but also their time profiles are subject to changes.