Virginia Tech engineers study space weather conditions that affect our lives

		IMAGE: Members of the Space@VT research center met with colleagues to discuss the latest efforts to understand space weather conditions. From left to right, are: Simon Shepherd of Dartmouth College, Richard... Click here for more information.

Blacksburg, Va. –– For the past 15 years, engineers and scientists have gained a greater understanding of global warming, the effects of geomagnetic storms, the impact of the solar wind interacting on the magnetized region around the earth, and other dynamic processes that occur in the Earth's near-space environment. Among their tools, they use a high-latitude network of radars to obtain increasingly sophisticated views of electric fields, plasma structures, atmospheric waves, and other effects in the ionosphere and atmosphere.