Development of a System for Accurate Forecasting of Solar Activity

Abstract

Work on solar activity forecasting has concentrated on the search for correlations which would allow the forecast of a given cycle with an anticipation larger than 4 to 5 years. The work on solar dynamo modeling involved a formulation of a realistic model of magnetic diffusion. This work is essentially complete and is capable of handling reliably the small scale interaction between convection and magnetic fields. Significant progress has occurred in the Solar Disk Sextant work with the completion of the wedge fabricated by optical contact. A successful balloon flight has yielded 20 gigabytes of data for which reduction and analysis methods are being developed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA262450

Entities

People

  • Sabatino Sofia

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Availability
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Convection
  • Delphi Method
  • Diffusion
  • Equations
  • Gigabytes
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Monitoring
  • Precision
  • Solar Activity
  • Sun
  • Three Dimensional
  • Universities

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  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design