Long-term variations of geomagnetic activity and their solar sources
Abstract
Geomagnetic activity in each phase of the solar cycle consists of 3 parts: (1) a "floor" below which the geomagnetic activity cannot fall even in the absence of sunspots, related to moderate graduate commencement storms; (2) sunspot-related activity due to sudden commencement storms caused by coronal mass ejections; (3) graduate commencement storms due to high speed solar wind from solar coronal holes. We find that the changes in the "floor" depend on the global magnetic moment of the Sun, and on the other side, from the height of the "floor" we can judge about the amplitude of the sunspot cycle.
- Publication:
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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Pub Date:
- December 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S0016793213070128
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1307.7960
- Bibcode:
- 2013Ge&Ae..53..813K
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Physics - Space Physics
- E-Print:
- in press in Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, 2013