Solar Cycle 23: An Anomalous Cycle?

Details Solar Cycle 23: An Anomalous Cycle? Solar Cycle 23: An Anomalous Cycle?

May 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...204.3714d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #37.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.711

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We discuss the importance of solar cycle 23 as a magnetically simpler cycle and a variant from recent cycles. We see a significant decrease in sunspot activity in cycle 23 relative to cycle 22, but the strength of the total solar irradiance (TSI) cycle did not change significantly. The latest SOHO/VIRGO TSI time series is analyzed using new solar variability measures obtained from full-disk solar images made at the San Fernando Observatory and the MgII 280nm index. The TSI record for the period 1986 to the present is reproduced within about 130ppm RMS using only two indices representing photospheric and chromospheric sources of variability due to magnetic regions. This is in spite of the difference in magnetic activity between the two cycles. Our results show the continuing improvement in TSI measurements and surrogates containing information necessary to account for irradiance variability.

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