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Deciphering solar magnetic activity: Some (unpopular) thoughts on the coupling of the Sun’s “weather” and “climate”

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The Sun exhibits episodic surges of magnetic activity across a range of temporal and spatial scales, the most prominent of which is the 11-th year modulation of sunspot production. Beside the ∼ 170 (min to max) decadal variation in sunspot production there is a less-explored quasi-annual variation in the range of 25–50 sunspots/year in magnitude. In addition, there is there is a slower, ∼ 80 year period, 10–50 variation in the sunspot number, that is commonly referred to as the “Gleissberg Cycle.” Using a suite of contemporary and historical observations we will illustrate these elements of our star’s episodic behavior and present a hypothesis that may provide a consistent physical link between the observed “climatic,” “decadal,” and “seasonal” magnetic variation of our star.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7qv3rvq

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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;" data-sheets-root="1">Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</span>

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OpenSky Support

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UCAR/NCAR - Library

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PO Box 3000

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80307-3000

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opensky@ucar.edu

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