Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3214109p&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 14, CiteID L14109
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Solar Activity Cycle (2162), Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Solar And Stellar Variability (1650), Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Solar Irradiance
Scientific paper
We show that daily sunspot area can be used in a simple model to reconstruct daily variations in the total solar irradiance, S. The model assumes that all fluctuations in S are correlated with the emergence of sunspots on the solar disk. Cotemporal data for S and sunspot area are analysed to extract the finite impulse response function that describes the time evolution of S in response to a sunspot. The impulse response function clearly shows the evolution of a dark sunspot into a well-defined bright region which then spreads out and decays over a period of about 400 days. This function can be used to reconstruct S from the Greenwich daily sunspot area database, which extends from the late 1800's to the present. We find that the level of S at solar minimum has no long-term secular trend that is correlated with the level of sunspot activity.
Preminger Dora G.
Walton Stephen R.
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