[ETS/PARC List] Solar Cycle 25
Don WILSON
k2dsv at msn.com
Wed Sep 9 10:23:16 EDT 2015
The first indicators that Solar Cycle 25 may be similar in amplitude
>to Cycle 24
>By W3LPL, Frank Donovan
>______________________________________________________________________
>
>Until mid-2014 Solar Cycle 24 was remarkably quiet. Despite the
>steadily declining solar flux since mid-2014, the Sun's large-scale
>magnetic field suddenly strengthened late in 2014 reaching its highest
>value in more than twenty years. Using these and
>related observations, two Naval Research Laboratory researchers, Wang
>and Sheehy, predict in their August 2015 article in The Astrophysical
>Journal that Solar Cycle 25 may reach an amplitude similar to Solar
>Cycle 24.
>
>Until the unexpectedly sudden and strong increase in the Sun's large-
>scale magnetic field, some solar scientists feared that Solar Cycle 25
>might achieve a much lower amplitude than Cycle 24. Those fears might
>now be put to rest.
>
>http://aasnova.org/2015/09/02/witnessing-solar-rejuvenation
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