Reversals of the solar magnetic dipole in the light of observational data and simple dynamo models

Author: Pipin V. V.   Moss D.   Sokoloff D.   Hoeksema J. T.  

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 1432-0746|567|issue|A90-A90

ISSN: 0004-6361

Source: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.567, Iss.issue, 2014-07, pp. : A90-A90

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Abstract

Context. Observations show that the photospheric solar magnetic dipole usually does not vanish during the reversal of the solar magnetic field, which occurs in each solar cycle. In contrast, mean-field solar dynamo models predict that the dipole field does become zero. In a recent paper it was suggested that this contradiction could be explained as a large-scale manifestation of small-scale magnetic fluctuations of the surface poloidal field.