Coronal Mass Ejections: Observations

Solar eruptive phenomena embrace a variety of eruptions, including flares, solar energetic particles, and radio bursts. Since the vast majority of these are associated with the eruption, development, and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), we focus on CME observations in this review. CMEs are a key aspect of coronal and interplanetary dynamics. They inject large quantities of mass and magnetic flux into the heliosphere, causing major transient disturbances. CMEs can drive interplanetary shocks, a key source of solar energetic particles and are known to be the major contributor to severe space weather at the Earth. Studies over the past decade using the data sets from (among others) the SOHO, TRACE,…

• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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• BC
  Boston College
• UO
  University of Birmingham
• GS
  Goddard Space Flight Center
• UA
  U.S. Air Force
• OO
  Office of Naval Research
• UN
  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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  Air Force Research Laboratory