The latitudinal distributions of sunspot areas and magnetic fields and their correlation with the background solar magnetic field in the cycle 23

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1753-1761

  Zharkov, S I ^a   Gavryuseva, E V ^b   Zharkova, V V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active regions; Butterfly diagram; Cross correlation; Solar magnetic field; Sunspot area asymmetry; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SUN;

ACTIVE REGIONS; BUTTERFLY DIAGRAM; SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUNSPOT AREA ASYMMETRY; WILCOX SOLAR OBSERVATORY;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 34347221911     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.03.087     Document Type: Article

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