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This is so awesome :D

The radio data is a super awesome datapoint for solar weather. I have however not really dipped my toes into this kind of data since it causes way too many false positives. These kind of metrics catch both the initial flare/x-ray that come with the coronal mass ejection (low auroral accuracy in general) as well as the plasma spewed towards earth at lower speeds (very high auroral accuracy)

The data is however instrumental to protect important radio signals, electric infrastructure on earth and (more importantly) satellites, since auroras are pretty much just a side effect of much bigger forces.

If you want to dive deeper into this, then you should totally check out http://www2.irf.se//Observatory/?link=Ionosondes and https://geo.phys.uit.no/ionosonde/. Both universities behind these sensors have a super awesome staff, I gave them a call last year and have been using the live text-data directly from their sensors in my hobby projects ever since :).

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1626403 is pretty awesome/interesting too If you know your way around the Swedish language and want to dive deeper into solar storms and its effects. I don't really know of any good podcasts in english that take up the subject of solar weather and its impact on earth sadly.

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