Catalogs of solar wind types and their role in solar-terrestrial physics

The magnetosphere response to interplanetary drivers depends on their type. The reliability of their identification affects the сonclusions based on the analysis of the relationships between the solar wind and the magnetosphere. In this paper, we analyze the list of moderate and strong geomagnetic storms and their interplanetary sources for the period 2009–2019 presented by Qiu S. et al. It is shown that some of the events in this list were defined incorrectly, and their interpretation differs in ~20 % of cases from our catalog by Yermolaev et al. (http://www.iki.rssi.ru/omni/) for the solar wind types Sheath, ICME, and CIR, and in ~28 % of cases from the Richardson and Cane catalog for ICME. Using the uncorrected list of Qiu S. et al. can lead to incorrect identification of interplanetary drivers of magnetic storms and false conclusions. It is recommended to use the classification of interplanetary drivers from catalogs of events accepted by the scientific community as reference ones.