Nordita seminar

Predicting solar magnetic activity and its coupling to life on Earth

by Dr Nishant Singh (Nordita)

Europe/Stockholm
NORDITA East Seminar Room

NORDITA East Seminar Room

Description
The prediction of space weather is an important goal in solar physics, and has consequences for aviation, satellite technology, manned space flight, and power grids on Earth. Helioseismology provides a way of looking underneath the surface of the Sun using naturally occurring sound and surface gravity waves. After introducing some basics of Helioseismology, I will discuss the possibility of space weather prediction, based on the analysis of three active regions (ARs), for which, the solar surface mode (f-mode) displays strengthening already about two days prior to AR formation. Its implications for global solar dynamo models will also be discussed.