Solar Wind Flux: Electron/Proton Count Reaching Earth

[spideyinspace]

can anyone give me the flux of solar wind reaching earth...the number of electrons/protons /cm^2/sec reaching Earth from Sun...i searched many sites but couldn't get the value...

 

[Astronuc]

A quick answer for the moment.

http://web.mit.edu/space/www/wind/wind_plot_daily.html

http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/s/space/www/wind.html

Some background
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wsolwind.html

http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/wind/wind_inst.html


I think NASA/Goddard is the primary agency for collecting data on solar radiation. They do a lot of research into the effect of radiation on systems and personnel.

It looks like the local density is about 10 particles/cc. Electrons and protons (alphas) are electrically neutral on a macroscopic scale. The coulomb forces simply enforce electrical neutrality.


See also -
http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://spaceweather.com/glossary/solarwinddata.html

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/MAG_SWEPAM_24h.html

 

[spideyinspace]

Thank you Astronuc...these are important sites to study solar wind...