The Sun is not a gentle man! While it undergoes dynamic changes and instabilities, it will produce dramatic transient events such as flares, filament eruptions, and coronal mass ejections, which have a number of far-reaching effects on terrestrial enviroment, causing radiation hazard to astronauts, trigering geomagnetic storms, disrupting communications, and damaging power systems.
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(click the picture for a movie showing how the solar eruptions triger geomagnetic substorms and aurora.) |
Generally, my study field involves the Sun-Earth Connection Science. By use of observational data from both spacecrafts and ground-based telescopes to understand the solar source of the near-Earth space weather. More information about my current research interests and publications could be found link 1 or link 2.