Physics
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm..sp31a19d&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #SP31A-19
Physics
7522 Helioseismology, 7524 Magnetic Fields, 7536 Solar Activity Cycle (2162), 7544 Stellar Interiors And Dynamo Theory
Scientific paper
We propose here an α Ω flux-transport dynamo driven by a tachocline α -effect, produced by the global hydrodynamic instability of tachocline differential rotation as calculated using a shallow-water model (Dikpati & Gilman, 2001, ApJ, Mar.20 issue). Growing, unstable shallow-water modes propagating longitudinally in the tachocline create alternate vortices which correlate with upward/downward radial motion of top boundary, associated with convergence/divergence of the disturbance flow to produce a longitude-averaged net kinetic helicity, and hence an α -effect. We show that a flux-transport dynamo driven by a tachocline α -effect is equally successful as a Babcock-Leighton flux-transport dynamo (Dikpati & Charbonneau 1999, ApJ, 518, 508) in reproducing many large-scale solar cycle features, including the most difficult feature of phase relationship between the subsurface toroidal field and surface radial field. In view of the success of flux-transport dynamos, whether the α -effect is at the surface or in the tachocline, we argue that the solar dynamo should be considered to involve three basic processes, rather than two (α -effect and Ω -effect only). The third important process is the advective transport of flux by meridional circulation. In reality, both α -effects (Babcock-Leighton type and tachocline α -effect) are likely to exist, but it is hard to estimate their relative magnitudes. We show, by extending the simulation in a full spherical shell model that a flux-transport dynamo driven by a tachocline α -effect selects toroidal field that is antisymmetric about the equator, while a Babcock-Leighton flux-transport dynamo selects symmetric toroidal field. Since our present Sun selects antisymmetric toroidal fields, we argue that the flux-transport solar dynamo is primarily driven by a tachocline α -effect. Acknowledgements: This work is supported by NASA grants W-19752 and S-10145-X. National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by National Science Foundation.
Dikpati Mausumi
Gilman Peter A.
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