Global Solar Wind Structure from Solar Minimum to Solar Maximum: Sources and Evolution |
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Authors: | Gibson SE |
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Institution: | (1) The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, 20064, U.S.A |
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Abstract: | During the past few years, significant progress has been made in identifying the coronal sources of structures observed in
the solar wind. This recent work has been facilitated by the relative simplicity and stability of structures during solar
minimum. The challenge now is to continue to use coordinated coronal/solar wind observations to study the far more complicated
and time-evolving structures of solar maximum. In this paper I will review analyses that use a wide range of observations
to map out the global heliosphere and connect the corona to the solar wind. In particular, I will review some of the solar
minimum studies done for the first Whole Sun Month campaign (WSM1), and briefly consider work in progress modeling the ascending
phase time period of the second Whole Sun Fortnight campaign (WSF) and SPARTAN 201-05 observations, and the solar maximum
third Whole Sun Month campaign (WSM3). In so doing I hope to demonstrate the increase in complexity of the connections between
corona and heliosphere with solar cycle, and highlight the issues that need to be addressed in modeling solar maximum connections.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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