25 CYCLE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY,
                   THE BRANCH OF RISE: THE PHASE OF RISE      
                        
         Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
                    Highlights on 14 - 20.08.2023
                      Forecast on 21 - 28.08.2023 
                Carrington Rotation 2274 (07,51.08.2023)
                 Earth out of ecliptic (6.5 - 6.8 deg) 
                  (S27 - N35 is zone of geoefficiency)

 THE SUNSPOT-FORMING SOLAR ACTIVITY  REMAINED ON MIDDLE LEVELS. 
ESTIMATED, MOST LIKELY WEEKLY AVERAGE VALUE OF THE SUNSPOT NUM-
BER IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM (old) FOR PERIOD IS W= 066+18/
-10 (Wn= 111+29/-18). ON THE VISIBLE SOLAR DISC OBSERVED UP 11 
SUNSPOT GROUPS,  AND UP 6 OF THEM  LOCALIZED ON THE SOUTH HEMI-
SPHERE.

 NEXT WEEK SUNSPOT ACTIVITY EXPECTED ON THE MIDDLE LEVEL. WEEK-
LY AVERAGE VALUE OF THE RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBER IN THE INTERNA-
TIONAL SYSTEM FOR NEXT WEEK IS W=120+50/-50.

 FLARE ACTIVITY  CHANGED ON LOW LEVEL. 72 FLARE OF X-RAY CLASS 
C, TW0 SOLAR FILAMENTS EJECTION, AND 68 CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS, 
FOUR OF WHICH WAS TYPE II (angular width 090 - 180 deg), HAVE 
BEEN OBSERVED.
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FLARES >M1 X-RAY CLASSES
       to   tm   te localization  Class   E(1-8A)  AR  RII/IV CME
                                 X-ray/Ïp  J/m-2           

DSF (EPL) to   te localization  l deg.  Fl    AR   CMEtype/to
17.08 ~1240 <1306 N15W90L306 EPL   16    C5.1 13397 II/|617 CME
18.08 >0018 >1623 S35E28L187        9
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 NEXT WEEK FLARE ACTIVITY WILL BE AT LOW AND MIDDLE LEVELS.

ON THE VISIBLE SOLAR DISK THE FOLLOWING GEOEFFECTIVE CORONAL HOLES 
WERE OBSERVED:
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 sign N end   E end   S end   W end   Sch   EE  R  G  Spacecraft 
          no geoeffective coronal holes on visible disc
* - low geoeffectivity, the substorms with duration <6 h. only.
Sch - CH area in % solar hemisphere near the central meridian on 
https://www.solarmonitor.org/; n/d - no data; R - solar rotations; 
EE-date of possible geomagnetic disturbance in the Earth's environment.
G(0-5)-geoeffectivity in last solar rotation on the middle latitudes. 
A-active geomagnetic condition. 
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 FROM 9.08/0500 UT THE EARTH IS IN "-" SECTOR OF INTERPLANETARY MAGNE-
TIC FIELDS. 16.08/1500-17/1850 UT SECTOR "+" HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. NEXT 
SECTOR BOUNDARY "-/+" IT CAN EXPECTED 23.08. 
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AUGUST   14     15     16     17     18     19     20   AUGUST       
Wus     085    107    140    135    112    104    093            
F10.7   154    158    160    152    151    151    146              
èbcg   ÷8.9   é9.1   B8.6   B8.0   ÷6.8   B6.6   B7.0   GOES       
Sp      650    530    830    700    570    470    490   msh        
N        1      3      3      1      1                           
IMF      -      -     -/+    +/-     -      -      -    DSCOVR     
Å>2  4.8å+7 2.2E+7 1.2E+7 1.3E+6 1.5å+6 2.7å+6 1.3å+6   GOES       
Ie>2   1252    899    732     <     157    193    100   pfU       
Ap       4      3      7      6      11     7      6    nô        
Dst                                                     nô KIOTO  
Amsc     5      4      8      7      11     7      9    nô IZMIRAN
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Å>2 - Daily Electron Fluency e/(cm2-ster-day) with E>2 MeV.
Ie>2 - the maximum intensity of electron flux on geostationary 
orbits for days according to GOES-18 in  (electrons/cm*2/s.sr)  
for events F>1000 pfu.
           
 THE GREATER THAN 2 MeV ELECTRON FLUX AT GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT BE- 
GUN 9.08/1530 UT AND HAVE BEEN OBSERVED 9-14.08.

 NEXT WEEK A HIGH LEVEL OF HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON FLUX WITH å>2 MeV 
IS NOT EXPECTED.

THE GEOMAGNETIC CONDITION CHANGED FROM QUIET TO UNSETTLED.

NEXT WEEK THE GEOMAGNETIC CONDITION IS MOST PROBABLE UNSETTLED AND 
QUIET.   

HIGHLIGHT AND FORECAST COMPOSED FROM DATA:
NOAA SWPC, BOULDER, USA               http://www.swpc.noaa.gov,
THE SOLAR INFLUENCES DATA ANALYSIS CENTRE, 
SIDC, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM               http://sidc.oma.be/index.php3, 
THE IZMIRAN, MOSCOW, TROITSK, RUSSIA  http://www.izmiran.ru
                                                          V.Ishkov