Our Magnetic Sun and its Effects on Earth
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Our Magnetic Sun and its Effects on Earth
Dr. E.J. Zita ([email protected])The Evergreen State College
Women in Science Symposium12 April 2006, TESC Chemistry Club
This work was supported by NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Guest Investigator Program, NRA 00-OSS-01 SEC
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Energy flows out of the Sun
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Magnetic fields channel energy flow
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Magnetic waves heat the Sun’s atmosphere to millions of degrees
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Magnetic sunspots → solar flares
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Solar outbursts → auroral effects
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What causes cycles of solar magnetism?
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Sun’s magnetic field flips
↑
↑ tachocline
photosphere
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Solar magnetic activity → solar atmosphere heating → warmer Earth?
• Solar max: more sunspots• Strong, twisted B fields• Magnetic tearing releases
energy and radiation • Cell phone disruption• Bright, widespread aurorae• Solar flares, prominences,
and coronal mass ejections• Global warming?• next solar max around 2011
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Does solar variability change Earth’s climate?
Friis-Christensen & Lassen (1991) Lean & Rind (2002) Lean & Rind (2001)
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Other factors affecting Earth’s climate
Fire & Water, Fall 2006
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What does the future hold?
Global warming? Ice age? More extreme weather!
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AcknowledgementsWe thank the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for hosting our summer visits;
computing staff at Evergreen for setting up Linux boxes with IDL in the Computer Applications Lab and Physics homeroom;
and NASA and NSF for funding this research.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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NCAR= National Center for Atmospheric Research: http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ncar/Montana St. Univ., http://solar.physics.montana.edu/canfield/
SOHO = Solar Heliospheric Observatory: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
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Papers online: http://academic.evergreen.edu/z/zita/research.htm ([email protected])
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