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Order and Chaos in the Solar Cycle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

A.A. Ruzmaikin*
Affiliation:
Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation Academy of Sciences USSR 142092, Troitsk, Moscow Region, USSR

Abstract

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Solar activity varying with an 11-year cycle is chaotic at large time scales. The evidence comes from an analysis of observations of the sunspot number and of radioactive carbon. Thereby an estimate of the dimension of the solar attractor can be obtained.

The origin of the sunspots can be associated with the interactions of the regular, large-scale, chaotic, and intermittent magnetic fields.

Type
VI. Generation of Solar Magnetic Fields
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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