The Chaotic Solar Cycle

Author : Arnold Hanslmeier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811598210

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The Chaotic Solar Cycle by Arnold Hanslmeier Pdf

This book offers an overview of solar physics with a focus on solar activity, particularly the activity cycle. It is known that solar activity varies periodically, but there are also phases of intermittency, such as the Maunder minimum, during which solar activity is very low or high over several decades. The book provides a brief introduction to chaos theory and investigates solar activity in terms of its chaotic behavior. It also discusses how intermittent phases of solar activity have affected and can affect Earth’s climate and long-term space weather, and reviews the underlying theories relating to the solar dynamo mechanism. Furthermore, each chapter includes references to scientific literature (review articles and papers) so that readers can delve deeper into the subjects covered. This richly illustrated book will appeal to a wide readership, and is also useful as a textbook for courses in solar physics and astrophysics.

Author : André Balogh,Hugh Hudson,Kristóf Petrovay,Rudolf Steiger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493925841

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The Solar Activity Cycle by André Balogh,Hugh Hudson,Kristóf Petrovay,Rudolf Steiger Pdf

A collection of papers edited by four experts in the field, this book sets out to describe the way solar activity is manifested in observations of the solar interior, the photosphere, the chromosphere, the corona and the heliosphere. The 11-year solar activity cycle, more generally known as the sunspot cycle, is a fundamental property of the Sun. This phenomenon is the generation and evolution of magnetic fields in the Sun’s convection zone, the photosphere. It is only by the careful enumeration and description of the phenomena and their variations that one can clarify their interdependences. The sunspot cycle has been tracked back about four centuries, and it has been recognized that to make this data set a really useful tool in understanding how the activity cycle works and how it can be predicted, a very careful and detailed effort is needed to generate sunspot numbers. This book deals with this topic, together with several others that present related phenomena that all indicate the physical processes that take place in the Sun and its exterior environment. The reviews in the book also present the latest theoretical and modelling studies that attempt to explain the activity cycle. It remains true, as has been shown in the unexpected characteristics of the first two solar cycles in the 21st century, that predictability remains a serious challenge. Nevertheless, the highly expert and detailed reviews in this book, using the very best solar observations from both ground- and space based telescopes, provide the best possible report on what is known and what is yet to be discovered. Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Vol 186, Issues 1-4, 2014.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Solar cycle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924004316570

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Study of the Solar Cycle from Space by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Haywood Yaskell
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466963009

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Grand Phases on the Sun by Steven Haywood Yaskell Pdf

It was one more defeat in our long and losing battle to keep the Sun perfect, or, if not perfect, constant, and if inconstant, regular. Why we think the Sun should be any of these when other stars are not is more a question for social than for physical science. John A. (“Jack”) Eddy Delineator of the Maunder Minimum On the human Idée fi xe as to why the Sun must be seen energetically as a linear entity. Around 1904, Kapteyn noticed that the stars did not move randomly through space, but that their movements had preferential directions... there was regularity in something astronomers had always thought to be chaotic. Adriaan Blaauw, emeritus director of the Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, Netherlands On Jacob Cornelius Kapteyn’s discovery of star streaming: the concept of galactic rotation and so, proof of some regularity in stellar behavior.

Author : Henry Helm Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112106573063

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Solar Cycles by Henry Helm Clayton Pdf

Author : Peter R. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521548217

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Solar and Stellar Activity Cycles by Peter R. Wilson Pdf

A timely and authoritative synthesis of our understanding of activity cycles in the Sun and similar stars for graduate students and researchers.

Author : Derek Justin Schove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006924438

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Sunspot Cycles by Derek Justin Schove Pdf

Author : Markus Aschwanden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642150012

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Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics by Markus Aschwanden Pdf

Markus Aschwanden introduces the concept of self-organized criticality (SOC) and shows that due to its universality and ubiquity it is a law of nature for which he derives the theoretical framework and specific physical models in this book. He begins by providing an overview of the many diverse phenomena in nature which may be attributed to SOC behaviour. The author then introduces the classic lattice-based SOC models that may be explored using numerical computer simulations. These simulations require an in-depth knowledge of a wide range of mathematical techniques which the author introduces and describes in subsequent chapters. These include the statistics of random processes, time series analysis, time scale distributions, and waiting time distributions. Such mathematical techniques are needed to model and understand the power-law-like occurrence frequency distributions of SOC phenomena. Finally, the author discusses fractal geometry and scaling laws before looking at a range of physical SOC models which may be applicable in various aspects of astrophysics. Problems, solutions and a glossary will enhance the pedagogical usefulness of the book. SOC has been receiving growing attention in the astrophysical and solar physics community. This book will be welcomed by students and researchers studying complex critical phenomena.

Author : Sacha Dobler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1730722873

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Solar History by Sacha Dobler Pdf

It may be counterintuitive: periods of high solar activity and high sunspot numbers - which are associated with a stable and more favorable climate - are also periods of increased mass excitability, war and genocide. In fact, throughout the last millennium, there were 4.6 times as many deaths from war, genocide and persecution during Grand Solar Maxima than there were in Grand Solar Minimum. In contrast, Grand Solar Minima - the 'bad-weather periods' - were times of relative peace, reason and of improvements of human rights.In the 1920s, the Russian scientist Alexander Tchijevsky discovered that social excitability, wars and rebellions unfolded primarily at the peaks of the 11-year solar cycles (Schwabe- cycles).I found that within the past 1000 years, what is true for the 11-years cycles, also applies to the non-periodical cycles of Grand Solar Minima and Maxima, recurring roughly every 200 or 400 years. Not only were most mass killings committed during these Grand Maxima, but the corresponding uprisings and rebellions mostly ended up in collectivist, totalitarian systems, that appealed to group ideologies, violent mob rule and imperialism. The narration of the history of this period is intended to illustrate this pattern and to warn of future repetitions. In addition to the multi decadal trends of wars and atrocities, we even find singular battles and mass hysteria in connection with the visible manifestations of high solar peaks, solar storms, visible sunspots and aurora. This book is about our future as much as it is about the past, as we are most likely entering the next Grand Solar Minimum within decades. If the trends of previous centuries continue, when the next Grand Solar Minimum begins, we can expect not only some inconvenient material adaptation processes, but ultimately also a social mood of increased reason, relative peace, rationality and the protection of human rights.This can give us a time window of between several decades and a hundred years to find out how we prevent the next round of mass killing and collectivist extremism in the future Solar Maximum. If we succeed, future generations may live in a world more peaceful than ever.

Author : Giuliana Cini Castagnoli,Antonello Provenzale
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9051993587

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Past and Present Variability of the Solar-terrestrial System by Giuliana Cini Castagnoli,Antonello Provenzale Pdf

The global climate of the Earth has significantly varied over the last millennia. On a regional scale, the climate has varied and does presently vary on many different time scales, leading to a continuously changing pattern of temperatures, humidity, precipitation, with important effects on the whole terrestrial biosphere. Physicist are interested in understanding the mechanism at work by gathering data and properly analysing them, by building theoretical models and, if possible, making predictions on the future evolution of the system. Along these lines, an important question is to understand the role of the solar forcing, in order to unravel the internal mechanisms of variability of the Earth's climate from the variable forcing of the Sun. On the other hand, one can learn about the past solar variability by reading into the terrestrial archives that provide us with proxy data on the history of both the Sun and the climate. Thus, realizing that the Sun and the Earth form a closely coupled system, where the variable properties of the former may affect in many subtle ways the behaviour of the latter, is an important step toward the understanding of both.This book is explicitly devoted to these issues. First, it is important to obtain reliable data from terrestrial archives, and to properly date the records that have been measured. The first part of the book is devoted to these crucial aspects, dealing with various types of proxy data and with the difficult issue of the dating of the records. Once obtained, the data has to be interpreted. This process nowadays relies upon a plethora of data analysis methods that explicitly take into account the nonlinear nature of the system and try to elucidate the dynamics and the main processes active in the measured system. The second part of the book is devoted to the issue of data analysis and prediction. Finally, once the data has been interpreted and analyzed, theoretical models have to be built describing the dynamics of the system considered. Due to the extreme complexity of the Sun/Earth system (as well as of its components, the Sun itself and the Earth's climate), drastic simplifications in the modelling efforts have to be accepted and one has to bear in mind that the models probably are nothing more than a pale image of the real dynamics. The third part of the book is devoted to the theoretical and numerical modelling of the solar and climatic variability, and of their complex interactions. This volume gives an up-to-date view of the present state of this field.

Author : M. R. E. Proctor,A. D. Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521467047

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Lectures on Solar and Planetary Dynamos by M. R. E. Proctor,A. D. Gilbert Pdf

Comprised of lectures for an intensive course held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, as part of a NATO Advanced Study Institute, the topics covered within this volume include planetary and solar dynamos, fast dynamos, and the use of symmetry principles to derive evolution equations.

Author : Reik V. Donner,Susana M. Barbosa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540789376

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Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences by Reik V. Donner,Susana M. Barbosa Pdf

The understanding of dynamical processes in the complex system “Earth” requires the appropriate analysis of a large amount of data from observations and/or model simulations. In this volume, modern nonlinear approaches are introduced and used to study specifiic questions relevant to present-day geoscience. The approaches include spatio-temporal methods, time-frequency analysis, dimension analysis (in particular, for multivariate data), nonlinear statistical decomposition, methods designed for treating data with uneven sampling or missing values, nonlinear correlation and synchronization analysis, surrogate data techniques, network approaches, and nonlinear methods of noise reduction. This book aims to present a collection of state-of-the-art scientific contributions used in current studies by some of the world's leading scientists in this field.

Author : M.J. Thompson,A. Balogh,J.L. Culhane,Å. Nordlund,S.K. Solanki,J.-P. Zahn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441902399

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The Origin and Dynamics of Solar Magnetism by M.J. Thompson,A. Balogh,J.L. Culhane,Å. Nordlund,S.K. Solanki,J.-P. Zahn Pdf

Starting in 1995 numerical modeling of the Earth’s dynamo has ourished with remarkable success. Direct numerical simulation of convection-driven MHD- ow in a rotating spherical shell show magnetic elds that resemble the geomagnetic eld in many respects: they are dominated by the axial dipole of approximately the right strength, they show spatial power spectra similar to that of Earth, and the magnetic eld morphology and the temporal var- tion of the eld resembles that of the geomagnetic eld (Christensen and Wicht 2007). Some models show stochastic dipole reversals whose details agree with what has been inferred from paleomagnetic data (Glatzmaier and Roberts 1995; Kutzner and Christensen 2002; Wicht 2005). While these models represent direct numerical simulations of the fundamental MHD equations without parameterized induction effects, they do not match actual pla- tary conditions in a number of respects. Speci cally, they rotate too slowly, are much less turbulent, and use a viscosity and thermal diffusivity that is far too large in comparison to magnetic diffusivity. Because of these discrepancies, the success of geodynamo models may seem surprising. In order to better understand the extent to which the models are applicable to planetary dynamos, scaling laws that relate basic properties of the dynamo to the fundamental control parameters play an important role. In recent years rst attempts have been made to derive such scaling laws from a set of numerical simulations that span the accessible parameter space (Christensen and Tilgner 2004; Christensen and Aubert 2006).

Author : Andre Balogh,Louis J. Lanzerotti,Steve T. Suess
Publisher : Springer Verlag
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540743014

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The Heliosphere Through the Solar Activity Cycle by Andre Balogh,Louis J. Lanzerotti,Steve T. Suess Pdf

Understanding how the Sun changes though its 11-year sunspot cycle and how these changes affect the vast space around the Sun – the heliosphere – has been one of the principal objectives of space research since the advent of the space age. This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) has been the best observed from both the Earth and from a fleet of spacecraft. Of these, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses probe has provided continuous observations of the state of the heliosphere since 1990 from a unique vantage point, that of a nearly polar orbit around the Sun. Ulysses’ results affect our understanding of the heliosphere from the interior of the Sun to the interstellar medium - beyond the outer boundary of the heliosphere. Written by scientists closely associated with the Ulysses mission, the book describes and explains the many different aspects of changes in the heliosphere in response to solar activity. In particular, the authors describe the rise in solar activity from the last minimum in solar activity in 1996 to its maximum in 2000 and the subsequent decline in activity.

Author : Jacqueline Bergeron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401111003

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Reports on Astronomy by Jacqueline Bergeron Pdf

IAU Transactions are published as a volume corresponding to each General Assembly. Volume A is produced prior to the Assembly and contains Reports on Astronomy, prepared by each Commission President. The intention is to summarize the astronomical results that have affected the work of the Commission since the production of the previous Reports up to a time which is about one year prior to the General Assembly. Volume B is produced after the Assembly and contains accounts of Commission Meetings which were held, together with other material. The reports included in the present volume range from outline summaries to lengthy compilations and references. Most reports are in English.