The Reversal of the Solar Polar Magnetic Fields - Part Three
Abstract
Observations of the first major active regions and large-scale magnetic field patterns of Cycle 22 are presented. These show that, following the emergence of a trans-equatorial pattern, or cell, of positive flux related to old cycle activity, the first new cycle active regions of the longitude range emerged across the neutral lines of this cell, which continued to grow and expand across the equator for several rotations. The development of a parallel trans-equatorial band of flux of opposite (negative) polarity and the emergence of both new and old cycle active regions across a neutral line of this cell are also described.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00146193
- Bibcode:
- 1992SoPh..138...11W
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Field Inversions;
- Solar Activity Effects;
- Solar Cycles;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Magnetic Signatures;
- Solar Observatories;
- Transport Properties;
- Solar Physics;
- Active Region;
- Neutral Line;
- Magnetic Axis;
- Flux Transport;
- Polar Magnetic Field