Articles | Volume 33, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-109-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Regular paper
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27 Jan 2015
Regular paper |
| 27 Jan 2015
The extreme solar storm of May 1921: observations and a complex topological model
Abstract. A complex solid torus model was developed in order to be able to study an extreme solar storm, the so-called "Great Storm" or "New York Railroad Storm" of May 1921, when neither high spatial and time resolution magnetic field measurements, solar flare nor coronal mass ejection observations were available. We suggest that a topological change happened in connection with the occurrence of the extreme solar storm. The solar storm caused one of the most severe space weather effects ever.
