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 сonclusions made on the basis of an 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 of 2009–2019 presented by Qiu 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 catalog of Richardson and Cane for ICME. Using the uncorrected list of Qiu 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.