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📈 Forecast Timeline

🔬 Cascade Decomposition

Stage 1: Aurora Occurrence

Space Weather Driven

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Stage 2: Observation Conditions

Cloud Cover & Moonlight

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Final: Visibility Probability

Combined Prediction

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🧪 Methodology

Aurora Hunter decomposes visibility forecasting into two physically distinct stages, multiplied into a single calibrated probability.

1

Aurora Occurrence

A calibrated XGBoost model trained on multi-station all-sky camera archives, driven by live NOAA solar wind and geomagnetic data (Kp, Bz, Newell coupling) in AACGM magnetic coordinates.

2

Observation Conditions

A calibrated logistic regression estimating whether an occurring aurora is actually observable, from cloud cover (Open-Meteo) and moonlight conditions.

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Visibility Probability

The product P(visible) = P(occurring) × P(clear | occurring) gives a well-calibrated probability you can act on.