Using geomagnetic indices to forecast the next sunspot maximum
โ Scribed by Guillermo Gonzalez; Kenneth H. Schatten
- Book ID
- 104658372
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 114
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-0938
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โฆ Synopsis
The Babcock "solar dynamo" model and known interactions of the interplanetary magnetic field with the earth's magnetosphere are used to explain the relations found between geomagnetic indices at solar minimum and the sunspot number at the following solar maximum. We augment the work of Kane (1987) by updating his method of analysis, including recent smoothed aa and A_ indices. We predict a smoothed maximum sunspot number of 163โข Go peak in October 1990โข months for solar cycle 22. This value is close to the Schatten and Sofia (1987) predicted value of 170โข using more direct solar indicators.
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