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Investigation of the Geoeffectiveness of CMEs Associated with IP Type II Radio Bursts

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We perform a statistical analysis of the geoeffectiveness of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that are associated with interplanetary (IP) type II bursts in Solar Cycle 23 during the period 1997 – 2008. About 47 % (109 out of 232) of IP type II bursts are found to be associated with geomagnetic storms. Of these 47 %, 27 % are associated with moderate, 14 % with intense, and 6 % with severe geomagnetic storms. We find that the IP type II bursts and their corresponding end frequencies can be used as indicators of CME geoeffectiveness: the lower the type II burst end frequency, the higher the possibility of having a stronger storm. In addition, we show that various combinations of CME remote-sensing and IP type II parameters can be used to improve geomagnetic storm forecasting.

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  1. http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/radio/waves_type2.html .

  2. http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/index.html .

  3. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/space-weather/solar-data/solar-features/solar-flares/x-rays/goes/ .

  4. http://wdc.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dst_final/index.html .

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the various online data centers of NOAA and NASA for providing the data. We express our thanks to the Wind/WAVES teams for providing the Type II catalog, and the LASCO CME catalog we used is generated and maintained by the Center for Solar Physics and Space Weather, The Catholic University of America in cooperation with the Naval Research Laboratory and NASA. We also express our thanks to the world data center in Kyoto for minimum Dst Values and NSSDCs OMNI web services for interplanetary magnetic field data. This work was supported by grants NSBRSF 2012CB825601, NNSFC 41274175, 41331068, U1431103 and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2014DQ001).

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Vasanth, V., Chen, Y., Kong, X.L. et al. Investigation of the Geoeffectiveness of CMEs Associated with IP Type II Radio Bursts. Sol Phys 290, 1815–1826 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-015-0713-0

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