Predicting CME arrival time through data integration and ensemble learning

Khalid A. Alobaid, Yasser Abduallah, Jason T.L. Wang, Haimin Wang, Haodi Jiang, Yan Xu, Vasyl Yurchyshyn, Hongyang Zhang, Huseyin Cavus, Ju Jing

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Abstract

The Sun constantly releases radiation and plasma into the heliosphere. Sporadically, the Sun launches solar eruptions such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CMEs carry away a huge amount of mass and magnetic flux with them. An Earth-directed CME can cause serious consequences to the human system. It can destroy power grids/pipelines, satellites, and communications. Therefore, accurately monitoring and predicting CMEs is important to minimize damages to the human system. In this study we propose an ensemble learning approach, named CMETNet, for predicting the arrival time of CMEs from the Sun to the Earth. We collect and integrate eruptive events from two solar cycles, #23 and #24, from 1996 to 2021 with a total of 363 geoeffective CMEs. The data used for making predictions include CME features, solar wind parameters and CME images obtained from the SOHO/LASCO C2 coronagraph. Our ensemble learning framework comprises regression algorithms for numerical data analysis and a convolutional neural network for image processing. Experimental results show that CMETNet performs better than existing machine learning methods reported in the literature, with a Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient of 0.83 and a mean absolute error of 9.75 h.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number1013345
JournalFrontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Volume9
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 6 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords

  • coronal mass ejections
  • heliophysics
  • interplanetary shocks
  • machine learning
  • space weather

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