Andrei Zhukov, 09/03/2005

Columns of the file events_SW_Sun_AZ.xls:

1 - event number

2 - event date, year-month-day

3 - brief description of the solar wind (SW) geoeffective structures: ICME =
Interplanetary CME; CIR = Corotating Interaction Region; CH = Coronal Hole (N -
North polarity, S - South polarity); MICME = Multiple ICME; MC = Magnetic Cloud;
HCS = Heliospheric Current Sheet; BDE = Bi-Directional Electrons; internal means
that the ICME itself is geoeffective, external means that the sheath region
between the shock and ICME is geoeffective. 

4 - interplanetary structure with color coding: red (ICME); green
(CIR/CH); orange (ICME/CIR meaning that the ICME is interacting with the
following fast flow); purple (MICME)

5 - Magnetic cloud handedness: RH = Right-Handed, LH = Left-Handed

6 - Magnetic cloud orientation: N = North, S = South, E = East, W = West

7 - date and time of the CME's first appearance in the LASCO C2 field of view;
as a rule taken from Gopal/Yashiro catalog; H = halo, PH = partial halo

8 - CME signature observed by EIT: D = Dimming, W = EIT Wave, A = post-eruption
Arcade, F = erupting Filament, P = erupting Prominence, L = Limb signature

9 - time and location of a CME signature observed by EIT. If date is not
mentioned, it is the same as the date of the CME. Location is approximative,
only to guide the eye. Most of the source regions are extended. 

10 - Comment