  Space Weather is the study of the conditions in the solar wind that can
affect life on the surface of the Earth, particularly the increasingly
technologically sophisticated devices that are part of modern life. Solar radio
observations are relevant to such phenomena because they generally originate as
events in the solar atmosphere, including flares, coronal mass ejections and
shocks, that produce electromagnetic and particle radiations that impact the
Earth. Low frequency solar radio emission arises in the solar atmosphere at the
levels where these events occur: we can use frequency as a direct measure of
density, and an indirect measure of height, in the atmosphere. The main radio
burst types are described and illustrated using data from the Green Bank Solar
Radio Burst Spectrometer, and their potential use as diagnostics of Space
Weather is discussed.
