:Product: 19960328SGAS.txt :Issued: 1996 Mar 28 0245 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force. # JOINT USAF/NOAA SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY SUMMARY SGAS NUMBER 088 ISSUED AT 0245Z ON 28 MAR 1996 THIS REPORT IS COMPILED FROM DATA RECEIVED AT SESC ON 27 MAR A. ENERGETIC EVENTS: NONE. B. PROTON EVENTS: NONE. C. GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY SUMMARY: THE FIELD WAS PREDOMINANTLY QUIET TO UNSETTLED. D. STRATWARM: STRATWARM ALERT/WED/STRATWARM EXISTS. WARMING OVER SIBERIA, THE SIBERIAN ARCTIC ACROSS THE POLE TO GREENLAND SLOWLY WEAKENING. TEMPERATURE GRADIENT REVERSED IN THE WHOLE STRATOSPHERE BETWEEN POLE AND 60 N, THE MEAN ZONAL WIND AT 60 N IS VERY WEAK FROM WESTERLY DIRECTIONS AT 1 HPA. E. DAILY INDICES: 10 CM 072 SSN 029 AFR/AP 008/009 X-RAY BACKGROUND LT A1.0 DAILY PROTON FLUENCE (FLUX ACCUMULATION OVER 24 HRS) GT 1 MEV 4.2E+05 GT 10 MEV 1.8E+04 P/(CM2-STER-DAY) (GOES-8 SATELLITE SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT W075 DEGREES) DAILY ELECTRON FLUENCE GT 2 MEV 4.5E+08 E/(CM2-STER-DAY) (GOES-7 SATELLITE SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT W116 DEGREES) 3 HOUR K-INDICES: BOULDER 4 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 PLANETARY 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 F. COMMENTS: THE ENERGETIC ELECTRON FLUENCE AT GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT WAS HIGH.