With the approaching of the 24th solar cycle peak year (2012-2014), the impacts of super solar storms on the geospace envi- ronment have drawn attentions. Based on the geomagnetic field observations during Carrington event in 1859, we estimate the interplanetary solar wind conditions at that time, and investigate the response of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system to this extreme solar wind conditions using global 3D MHD simulations. The main findings include: l) The day-side magnetopause and bow shock are compressed to 4.3 and 6.0 Re (Earth radius), and their flanks are also strongly compressed. The magneto- pause shifts inside the geosynchronous orbit, exposing geosynchronous satellites in the solar wind in the magnetosheath. 2) During the storm, the region-1 current increases by about 60 times, and the cross polar potential drop increases by about 80 times; the reconnection voltage is about 5 to 6 times larger than the average storms, which means a larger amount of the solar wind energy enters the magnetosphere, resulting in strong space weather phenomena.
The temperature curve in the solar chromosphere has puzzled astronomers for a long time. Referring to the structure of supergranular cells, we propose an inductive heating model. It mainly includes the following three steps. (1) A small-scale dynamo exists in the supergranulation and produces alternating small-scale magnetic fluxes; (2) The supergranular flow distributes these small-scale fluxes according to a regular pattern; (3) A skin effect occurs in the alternating and regularly-distributed magnetic fields. The induced current is concentrated near the transition region and heats it by resistive dissipation.