IPS Radio and Space Services has made a significant change to its forecast for solar cycle 24 . [...]
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IPS Radio and Space Services has made a significant change to its forecast for solar cycle 24. The forecast cycle maximum smoothed sunspot number has been dropped from 134 to approximately 90. In addition the time of maximum has been …[...] Also,by measuring the sunspot’s magnetic polarity,solar physicists know that this ‘spot belongs to the new Solar Cycle 24. Recent months have shown a steady increase in sunspot number from this new cycle,indicating solar activity is …[...] Whew,one could spend nearly full time these days keeping track of all the efforts to estimate the strength of the upcoming solar cycle . There’s a new paper out by Brajsa et al.,who find the maximum sunspot number for the upcoming …[...] My running mean of the International Sunspot Number for 2009 just dipped below 1.00. For anything comparable you now need to go back before 1913 (which scored a 1.43) which could mean we’re now competing directly with the Dalton Minimum .. [...] “We’re experiencing a deep minimum of the solar cycle .”When talking about sunspot number,the data reliability is all over the map. [...] Solar cycle 22 started just a couple of years before that summer of drought and dry lightening. Relative to other cycles,that solar cycle had 1) a very fast rise time –2.8 years,2) a very short cycle length –9.7 years,…[...] | |||||