Our turbulent sun
The quest for a new understanding of the sun and its surprising irregularities, variations, and effects is described. Attention is given to the sun's impact on life on earth, the weather and geomagnetic storms, sunspots, solar oscillations, the missing neutrinos in the sun, the 'shrinking sun', the 'dance' of the orbits, and the search for the 'climate connection'. It is noted that the 1980s promise to be the decade of the sun: not only because solar power may be a crucial ingredient in efforts to solve the energy crisis, but also because there will be brilliant auroras over North America, because sunspot activity will be the second highest since the 17th century, and because an unmanned spacecraft (i.e., the solar polar mission) will leave the plane of the solar system and observe the sun from above and below.
- OSTI ID:
- 5512327
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
AURORAE
CLIMATES
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY
ENERGY SOURCES
FERMIONS
GEOMAGNETIC FIELD
LEPTONS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETIC STORMS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
NEUTRINOS
RADIATIONS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
REVIEWS
SOLAR ACTIVITY
SOLAR CYCLE
SOLAR ENERGY
SOLAR NEUTRINOS
SOLAR PARTICLES
SOLAR RADIATION
STARS
STELLAR RADIATION
VARIABLE STARS