Not much time for a full report, as it is very late for me, but I’ll pass this along from comments. Looks to be cycle 23 due to low latitude. – Anthony
Looks like a sunspot has appeared recently, as of Oct 9, 1600. Magnetogram also shows a spot. Is this the last spot that had blinked in and out?
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_igr/1024/latest.html
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_small/20081009_1600_mdi_mag.gif
H/t to Glenn
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Pamela Gray (09:56:20) :
In either case, what would explain the sudden elevation of neutron particles?
I have data from another station Lomnicky Stit in Slovakia. If one plots the counts from Lomnicky and Oulu [normalized to the same percentage at the left-hand half of the graph] for the past month, one gets:
http://www.leif.org/research/Pamela1.png
You can see that such jumps occur in the record [at different times a different stations]. These data are preliminary only and must be ‘cleaned up’ before publication. Plotting real-time data is always at ones own risk, and one should not overinterpret ‘mysterious’ changes. That said, it will be interesting to see the next couple of days what several stations report.
Christopher (10:25:15) :
So MR Svalgaard. So do you think of the biggest sc24 sunspot? It seems everybody thinks that sc24 is on it way up now from this. Or we still have a longs ways to min.?
At some point we should have some SC24 spots, so it is not surprising that we do. These new spots are not ‘big’ in any real sense. Whether we are a minimum is hard to say because the minimum is not a single physical thing, but depends on how you define it. That said, a minimum in, say August 2008, probably would not be far off the mark, but this is guesswork.
Pamela Gray (09:56:20) :
In either case, what would explain the sudden elevation of neutron particles
Moscow also shows no enhancement, so the jump at Oulu [there is another one today] is definitely an instrumental problem.
Pamela Gray (09:56:20) :
In either case, what would explain the sudden elevation of neutron particles
Pamela, here is the explanation:
me: Ilya,
You have a problem with the Neutron monitor counts at Oulu. October 11 and 12.
reply:
Dear Leif,
Thank you – I know the problem. I am away now, and my student interchanged the channels – pressure uncorrected data are shown since 11/10. It will be fixed tonight.
Best regards,
Ilya
Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory (Oulu unit)