Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991soph..136..221w&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 136, Dec. 1991, p. 221-237. Research supported by Australian Research Council.
Physics
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Magnetic Field Configurations, Solar Activity, Solar Magnetic Field, Sunspot Cycle, Solar Observatories, Synoptic Measurement, Transport Properties
Scientific paper
Synoptic magnetic data of the National Solar Observatory and contour maps provided by the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory are used to present observations of large-scale patterns of magnetic fields near the sunspot minimum of 1986. These maps are compared with simulated contour maps derived from numerical solutions of the flux transport equation using data from particular Carrington rotations as initial conditions. The simulated evolutions of the large-scale magnetic maps are qualitatively consistent with the observed evolutions, but differ in several significant respects, such as complexity of fine structure, response to differential rotation, evolution of decaying active regions, and emergence of new elements in the weak large-scale fields independent of the evolution of the observed active regions. It is concluded that the patterns of weak magnetic fields which comprise the large-scale features cannot be formed entirely by the diffusive decay of active regions.
McIntosh Patrick S.
Wilson Peter R.
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