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子午流变化对第23和24太阳周的影响

Effects of Meridional Flow Variations on Solar Cycles 23 and 24

Lisa Upton, David H. Hathaway

摘要:

在第23/24太阳活动周极小期之前的更快的纬向流被认为导致了更弱的极场强度,产生了延长的太阳活动极小期和异常弱的第24太阳活动周。为了确定日冕流变化对太阳黑子周期的影响,我们用我们新开发的表面通量输运模型模拟了太阳表面磁场的演化。我们调查三种不同的情况下:一个恒定的平均tagononal流,观察到的时变tagononal流,和时变tagononal流中观察到的变化从平均值已被加倍。这些模拟的比较表明,第23次循环中的纬向流变化对极场有显著影响(约20%)。然而,这些变化产生的极场比其他情况下更强。我们认为,第23/24周最小值和第24周弱的主要原因是第23周本身的弱点-太阳黑子较少,没有足够的通量来建立一个大的周期。我们还发现,任何极性的反细胞的纬向流(高纬度的赤道流)产生的通量浓度在中高纬度,是不一致的意见。

英文摘要:

The faster meridional flow that preceded the solar cycle 23/24 minimum is thought to have led to weaker polar field strengths, producing the extended solar minimum and the unusually weak cycle 24. To determine the impact of meridional flow variations on the sunspot cycle, we have simulated the Sun's surface magnetic field evolution with our newly developed surface flux transport model. We investigate three different cases: a constant average meridional flow, the observed time-varying meridional flow, and a time-varying meridional flow in which the observed variations from the average have been doubled. Comparison of these simulations shows that the variations in the meridional flow over cycle 23 have a significant impact (~20%) on the polar fields. However, the variations produced polar fields that were stronger than they would have been otherwise. We propose that the primary cause of the extended cycle 23/24 minimum and weak cycle 24 was the weakness of cycle 23 itself - with fewer sunspots, there was insufficient flux to build a big cycle. We also find that any polar counter-cells in the meridional flow (equatorward flow at high latitudes) produce flux concentrations at mid-to-high latitudes that are not consistent with observations.

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