Impact of changes in the Sun's conveyor-belt on recent solar cycles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Dikpati, Mausumi ^a   Gilman, Peter A ^a   De Toma, Giuliana ^a   Ulrich, Roger K ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DC GENERATORS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FLUX; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CONVECTION ZONE; DYNAMO MODELS; EL NINO EVENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL FLOWS; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR SURFACES; THERMAL SIGNATURES;

BELT CONVEYORS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EL NINO; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASMA; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 77955298548     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044143     Document Type: Article

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