Space Weather

The solar cycle. Sunspots, prominences, flares & coronal mass ejections. The solar dynamo. The solar wind. Planetary magnetospheres.

Please read the following in Carroll & Ostlie.

11.2	The Solar Atmosphere
	Coronal Holes and the Solar Wind — The Parker Wind Model — The Hydrodynamic Nature of the Upper Solar Atmosphere — Magnetohydrodynamics and Alfven Waves

11.3	The Solar Cycle
	Sunspots — Plages — Solar Flares — Solar Prominences — Coronal Mass Ejections — The Time-Dependent Shape of the Corona — The Magnetic Dynamo Theory

None this week.

Joshua E. Barnes (barnes at ifa.hawaii.edu)

Updated: 28 November 2012
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/ast241_f12/sw.html