Solar Cycle 24 - A GOES Space Environment Monitor Perspective
Abstract
Our local star has had time for around 400 million solar activity cycles, but, the official tally only started 260 years ago when it was wisely decided to start with number one. Here at cycle 24 we have ways to observe solar activity effects that Richard Carrington never dreamed of. NOAA was an early adopter of space weather monitoring via satellite when the SMS-GOES mission began in 1974. This presentation uses those historical data to compare cycle 24 with the two preceding cycles. A variety of other space weather data and indices are thrown in for good measure.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015AGUFMSH23A2419T
- Keywords:
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- 7522 Helioseismology;
- SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY;
- 7524 Magnetic fields;
- SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY;
- 7529 Photosphere;
- SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY;
- 7536 Solar activity cycle;
- SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY