Incorporating Polar Field Data for Improved Solar Flare Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01730v1
• Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 03:06:11 GMT
• Title: Incorporating Polar Field Data for Improved Solar Flare Prediction
• Authors: Mehmet Aktukmak, Zeyu Sun, Monica Bobra, Tamas Gombosi, Ward B. Manchester, Yang Chen and Alfred Hero
• Abstract summary: We consider incorporating data associated with the sun's north and south polar field strengths to improve solar flare prediction performance using machine learning models. Our experimental results indicate the usefulness of the polar field data for solar flare prediction, which can improve Heidke Skill Score (HSS2) by as much as 10.1%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we consider incorporating data associated with the sun's north and south polar field strengths to improve solar flare prediction performance using machine learning models. When used to supplement local data from active regions on the photospheric magnetic field of the sun, the polar field data provides global information to the predictor. While such global features have been previously proposed for predicting the next solar cycle's intensity, in this paper we propose using them to help classify individual solar flares. We conduct experiments using HMI data employing four different machine learning algorithms that can exploit polar field information. Additionally, we propose a novel probabilistic mixture of experts model that can simply and effectively incorporate polar field data and provide on-par prediction performance with state-of-the-art solar flare prediction algorithms such as the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Our experimental results indicate the usefulness of the polar field data for solar flare prediction, which can improve Heidke Skill Score (HSS2) by as much as 10.1%.

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