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The research team led by Prof. Kusano published their paper on the physics-based model that can predict large solar flares in Science.

The research team led by Professor Kanya Kusano (Director of ISEE, Nagoya University) succeeded in developing the first physics-based model that can accurately predict the location and scale of imminent large solar flares. This research paper was published in Science on July 31, 2020. The detail information of the paper is as follows:
Journal: Science, Vol. 369, Issue 6503, Pages 587-591, July 31, 2020
Title: A physics-based method that can predict imminent large solar flares
Author: Kanya Kusano1, Tomoya Iju2, Yumi Bamba1,3, Satoshi Inoue1
1Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
2Solar Science Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
3Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz2511
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6503/587

Caption: Magnetic field on the solar surface and the initial brightening of largest solar flare (GOES class X9.3) in the solar cycle 24 in NOAA Active Region (AR) 12673 on Sep. 6, 2017. They were observed by HMI and AIA onboard the NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite. A: Magnetic field on the solar surface before the onset of the large flare at 11:45 UT on the day. White and black indicates the intensity of magnetic field along the line of sight out of and toward the plane. B: The zoom-in view of vertical magnetic field in AR 12673. A white circle indicates the location where a large flare was predicted by this study. Black contour shows the magnetic polarity inversion (PIL). C: Bright flare ribbon observed by SDO/AIA1600Å at 11:52 UT. B and C are reformatted based on Fig.3 of this research paper by Kusano et al. (2020) published in Science.