Sunspots are a magnetic phenomenon. Basically a sunspot occurs when the sun's magnetic field lines poke through the photosphere. They appear as dark splotches...
It is as I suspected. I have to humbly disagree with your assessment of the margin for error.<br><br>Flaring is, to me, more electrically interesting than what...
Now, if I were a smoker like I was 20 years ago when I first moved to Los Angeles by myself with my beatup Ford Granada and $200 on a Visa, I would pause for a...
There is a new bill to turn the National Assessment into a "National Climate Service", to match the Weather Service. It would produce OFFICIAL forecasts at the...
The bill needs to include river and dam activity and reconsider how sequestration impacts the microbrial biosphere at river/ocean boundries where the hydrate...
If you have a die and roll it, and it is a fair die (a perfect wieghted cube), there is a one in six chance of rolling . . . say, a two. That means if I ...
A large, deep coronal hole is the main newsmaker this evening. It is an Earth-pointing position, and will be sending high speed solar wind gusts our way by the...
I still that even of the Little Ice Age was a cloudy period, it is unreasonable to think that every day will be cloudy. I believe there would have been enough...
I still that even of the Little Ice Age was a cloudy period, it is unreasonable to think that every day will be cloudy. I believe there would have been enough...
Allow me to digress a bit and then answer your outstanding questions as best I may:<br><br>Here is a great interview of Dr. Bruce Wielicki:<br><br><a...
thought I was nuts. So it goes.<br><br>I am not sure that I am suggesting that every day was clouding during the Little Ice Age. What I am suggesting is that ...
Greece just got hammered with the worst snow storm there in 60 years--a place that generally sees little snow fall.<br>Where are there are methane hydrate ...
A CME is short for Coronal Mass Ejection. It is basically what it says...an ejection of gas from the solar corona. You have billions of tons of electrically ...
After a few days of relative quiet, a new sunspot region has sprung up, and made it self known today with a major M9.5 flare. It is sunspot region 9773, and it...
I though you might like some explanation of some the things in the solar activity reports.<br><br>The NOAA sunspot number is published by NOAA (duh!). It is ...
ooops...<br><br>"The A and K indices are measurements of geomagnetic activity. The K index is taken over a 3 hour period. The index is a combination and ...
Thanks for that.<br><br>It would be interesting to get the movements of the mag poles in relation to SST anomalies. It may give an idea exactly how much ...
First of all, I should say that geomagnetic physics is a field of study in itself, and that books have been written on the subject. There is a WHOLE lot more...
Thanks. This is a very good background on what exactly a flare is. <br><br>I am starting to wonder how much of the SST anomalies cold north in the N. Hemishere...
> Anyway, the next part is the slower moving stuff from the flare that cause aurora get caught in the earth's magnetic fields and get moved around to the...
** S-1 Solar Radiation Storm In Progress **<br>** Aurora Watch In Effect **<br><br>The Earth is now inside of a coronal hole generated high speed solar wind ...
Like terrestrial plants, phytoplankton engage in photosynthesis, using<br><br>sunlight as an energy source to combine water molecules and carbon<br>dioxide and...
Kirk,<br><br>That is just an outstanding link/article. <br><br>And the most amazing thing about it that leaps out is how when you substitute the forcing of CO2...
With the oceans so warm what will be dangerous is not if we have another 500 year El Nino and all the harm this will cause but if we DON'T have a big El Nino....
** S-1 Solar Radiation Storm In Progress **<br><br>The Earth remains inside a high speed, coronal hole generated solar wind stream. Although the geomagnetic ...
