Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008spwea...611005h&link_type=abstract
Space Weather, Volume 6, Issue 11, CiteID S11005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Helioseismology, Space Weather: Solar Effects, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
Sometime around 2012, the waxing 11-year solar cycle once again will reach its peak. Between now and then, magnetically turbulent sunspots, spawned by some still mysterious process, will form near the poles in increasing numbers and migrate toward the Sun's faster-rotating equator in pairs of opposite polarity. Titanic magnetic storms will rage as immense flux tubes rise to the surface in active regions around sunspots and spread out in a boiling sea of electric charge. Magnetic field lines across an enormous range of scales will arc and undulate, rip apart and reconnect, heating the Sun's upper atmosphere and occasionally triggering brilliant flares and multibillion-megaton coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that travel through the solar wind and slam into Earth.
Harwood William
Klotz Irene
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