Articles Tagged "Leif Svalgaard"

The following abstract of a poster to be presented next month at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union caught my eye:

Revised Assumptions and a Multidiscipline Approach to a Solar/Climate Connection

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Leif Svalgaard writes in comments (at WUWT):

We plan to submit tomorrow to JGR the following…http://www.leif.org/research/IDV09.pdf (preprint)…showing the run of the heliospheric magnetic field since 1835 [not a typo]. I plan to discuss the whole peer-review process here on WUWT, complete with nasty comments by the reviewers and our responses. This will be an illustration of the peer-review process as it unfolds. Should be interesting. I’ll say. I’ve taken some of the most interesting graphics and put them up for WUWT readers, along with the abstract

Leif Svalgaard (via Frank Hill) writes to advise me that National Solar Observatory GONG is showing a significant spot on the far side of the sun that appear to have the right latitude for SC24 in addition to being fairly large.

Here is the GONG plot, note P87.

Graph source: NASA News

Leif Svalgaard writes:

Some speculation that solar cycle 25 has already begun:

Above: A helioseismic map of the solar interior

The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.

Updated below by Leif Svalgaard via WUWT