Solar Cycle Prediction
Abstract
A review of solar cycle prediction methods and their performance is given, including forecasts for cycle 24. The review focuses on those aspects of the solar cycle prediction problem that have a bearing on dynamo theory. The scope of the review is further restricted to the issue of predicting the amplitude (and optionally the epoch) of an upcoming solar maximum no later than right after the start of the given cycle.
- Publication:
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Living Reviews in Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- DOI:
- 10.12942/lrsp-2010-6
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1012.5513
- Bibcode:
- 2010LRSP....7....6P
- Keywords:
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- Solar cycle;
- Solar dynamo;
- Solar Activity;
- Solar Cycle;
- Sunspot Number;
- Polar Field;
- Singular Spectrum Analysis;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 53 pages, 9 figures, 1 table