Present day challenges in understanding the geomagnetic hazard to national power grids

Title: Present day challenges in understanding the geomagnetic hazard to national power grids
Creator: Thompson, A W P
Creator: Kotze, P
Creator: Ngwira, C M
Creator: Lotz, Stefanus I
Creator: Gaunt, C T
Creator: Cilliers, P
Creator: Wild, J A
Creator: Opperman, Ben D L
Creator: McKinnell, Lee-Anne
Creator: Lotz, S I
Date Issued: 2010
Date: 2010
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6812
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004305
Description: Power grids and pipeline networks at all latitudes are known to be at risk from the natural hazard of geomagnetically induced currents. At a recent workshop in South Africa, UK and South African scientists and engineers discussed the current understanding of this hazard, as it affects major power systems in Europe and Africa. They also summarised, to better inform the public and industry, what can be said with some certainty about the hazard and what research is yet required to develop useful tools for geomagnetic hazard mitigation.
Format: 12 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Thompson, A.W.P. and Gaunt, C.T. and Cilliers, P. and Wild, J.A. and Opperman, B. D. L. and McKinnell, Lee-Anne and Kotze, P. and Ngwira, C. M. and Lotz, S. I. (2010) Present day challenges in understanding the geomagnetic hazard to national power grids. Advances in Space Research, 45 (9). pp. 1182-1190. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.11.023

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McKinnell, Lee-Anne (Dr)

RU Department of Physics and Electronics

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