I’ve done some house cleaning and maintenance today to replace the aging SOHO image on the sidebar (which had not been updating since January 11th, thanks to Ric Werme for reminding me) with a new image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which provides stunning detail over the now 15 year old SOHO instrument.
We have a one-stop-shop for the most commonly used solar images and data in one place now.
See the WUWT Solar Images and Data Page here
Be sure to bookmark it or you can get it from the sidebar image or the pulldown menu under the WUWT header:
I’ve tried to include everything that I think might be interesting and pertinent, but I will entertain suggestions for new content below. Images and links only please.
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YEA!!!!!!!!
Have you provided a clear link for Tamino to follow or he will miss it 😉
Thank you for a very useful page.
One you may like to include is http://www.leif.org/research/F107%20at%20Minima%201954%20and%202008.png which compares the 1954 and 2008 minima
Is it worth including the Livingstone and Penn graph from http://www.leif.org/research/Livingston%20and%20Penn.png
Wonderful…. thank you sources…. and thank WUWT for bringing this all together… the only thing I would add is the Layman’s Count from http://www.landscheidt.info/images/lay_monthly.png
just noticed the diagrams from Dr. Leif Svalgaard which have click to enlarge under them don’t
REPLY: fixing that thx
Very nice. Bravo!
The sun spot graph compares against an out of date prediction.
The graph of changing predictions for cycle 24 would be useful.
Easy and open access to all manner of current and relevant climate data at this site has always been welcomed by free- thinkers of the world.
The ability for anyone, with any viewpoint, to make comment at this site regarding climate issues, has also been beneficial for meaningful debate.
Contrast these two seemingly simple, but basic elements of rational discourse with what can be found at the sites promoted by the elitist advocates of doom and tyranny.
The warmistas betray themselves for all the world to see.
Thanks Anthony.
Excellent page. Reason #eleventybrazillion this is the best climate blog on the internet…
Anthony, you might want to include a link to the STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) imagery, which is NASA’s program to provide 3D imagery of the Sun
http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/mission.shtml
The “Ahead” and “Behind” spacecraft have now drifted further such that they provide a view of the far side of the sun, allowing us to track old regions as they rotate out of Earth view and to see new regions forming on the far side.
Thanks Anthony, that is a great page!!
The only thing I am missing is this high quality grayscale image
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_2048_HMII.jpg
I realise you have high-res (4096 and 2048) yellow versions, but the image linked to above is of higher quality and easier to evaluate for “tiny tims” and such.
REPLY: Your’e right I’ll add a link under the main big yellow -A
I once exchanged emails with the person at Stanford doing the orange colorizations of the SOHO images, I really never understood why they do such things. The yellow SDO images seem to be the latest twist to this. I prefer the original grayscale as it contains more information.
Excellent.
I’d noticed on the SOHO web site the other day that they’d just replaced the old SOHO MDI Continuum & Magnetogram images with these newer SDO images. So you’re right on top of the latest happenings.
One-stop shopping at WUWT.
Excellent new page. I especially like the Lyman’s sunspot count.
Excellent new page.
The only thing it possibly lacks is the daily sunspot number, available here :
http://spaceweather.com/
REPLY: That’s on the WUWT widget, but the software must be manually launched to make that image, working to improve that timeliness with automation. Amazingly there exists no regularly updated image on the net (other than that) of the SSN number. – A
cool vids
Great stuff Anthony. Really handy to have all these resources linked to from one site. Thanks.
Finally all about the state of the sun under ONE click. Thanks!
On the threads relating to the solar events it is often stated that magnetic flux ropes (magnetic clouds) do not contain net electric current.
However, top expert (and most often quoted author) R.P. LEPPING, from Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, in his paper
‘A summary of WIND magnetic clouds for years 1995-2003 : model-fitted parameters, associated errors and classifications’
states: MCs (magnetic clouds) are just under one day long, are 1/4AU in diameter, have a broad distribution of axial directions with a slight preference for alignment with the Y-axis(GSE), have axial fluxes of 10^21Mx, have axial current densities of about 2μA/km2, and carry a total axial current (IT ) of about a billion amps.
Also from NASA in MAGNETIC CLOUD BOUNDARY TIMES AS DETERMINED BY MFI DATA
….. magnetic field model assumes that the field within the magnetic cloud is force free, i.e., so that the electrical current and the magnetic field are parallel and proportional in strength everywhere within its volume.
Since magnetic clouds are magnetic loops that are rooted at both ends in the Sun, the above if correct, opens possibility for direct electric current link between the Sun and planets’ magnetospheres at reconnection times (e.g. during geomagnetic storms).
Can you include some sort of benchmark or something to compare too. I know we’re in a quiet sun time, but what do some of the items you show look like when the sun is really active or during a solar max? (magnetic field, winds, pressure)
Thanks
That’s a great page though I couldn’t help notice that there is no mention of our other sun, Betelgeuse.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/tatooines-twin-suns-coming-to-a-planet-near-you-just-as-soon-as-betelgeuse-explodes/story-fn5fsgyc-1225991009247
REPLY: And there won’t be because the story is 2012 related nuttiness – Anthony
Yatta! Saves a bit more time, thank you to all at the blog.
It might be interesting to have the various SC 24 predictions of the last two years overlaid upon the updating sunspot count. I know of no link for that.
These reference pages are absolute golddust, and this one no different. Fabulous images and information. I wish I had half your stamina.
Lord Monckton of Brenchley was on our very own Late Late Show (apparently the longest running talk show in the World). I didn’t see it (will view it on RTE player), but I believe he drove a Dumper Truck through the whole AGW meme, along with the Green Party member who called him a climate d****er. He was very well received by the audience.
Anthony, if anyone is doing a periodically updated comparison chart of the recent SC pattern to that of the LIA, it’d be quite interesting to have on the resource page. If you’re not aware of one, perhaps another commentator here will see this, know of, and provide a link to one….
Thanks!!
Or should I have said maunder minimum rather than LIA?