Comparing different types of solar flares with radio bursts detected by SMOS

SMOS is an Earth observing satellite that is been adapted to provide full polarization observations of the Sun at 1.4 GHz 24 hours a day. Its solar radio observations from the last decade will be released to the community by the middle of this year. In this presentation we show the capabilities of SMOS as a solar radio observatory and compare some of the most relevant radio bursts with data from GOES, LASCO, SDO and RSTN. We show how SMOS responds to different kinds of solar flares depending on their x-ray flux, and the kind of mass ejection or solar dimming that they have produced, if any. In addition to this we also show the potential of SMOS as a space weather tool to monitor GNSS satellites signal fades and to provide an early warning of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections.