The Long-term Behavior of the North South Asymmetry of Sunspot Activity

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009soph..254..145l&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 254, Issue 1, pp.145-154

Statistics

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Sunspots, Statistics, Solar Cycle, Observations

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A new index, the cumulative difference of sunspot activity in the northern and southern hemispheres, respectively, is proposed to describe the long-term behavior of the North South asymmetry of sunspot activity and to show the balance (or bias) of sunspot activity in the two solar hemispheres on a long-term scale. Sunspot groups and sunspot areas from June 1874 to January 2007 are used to show the advantage of the index. The index clearly shows a long-term characteristic time scale of about 12 cycles in the North South asymmetry of sunspot activity. Sunspot activity is found to dominate in the southern hemisphere in cycle 23, and in cycle 24 it is predicted to dominate still in the southern hemisphere. A comparison of the new index with other similar indexes is also given.

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