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Torsional Oscillations and the Solar Dynamo Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

I. Tuominen
Affiliation:
1Observatory and Astrophysics Laboratory, University of Helsinki Tähtitorninmäki, SF-00130 Helsinki, Finland
G. Rüdiger
Affiliation:
2Sternwarte Babelsberg, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 17a, 1591 Potsdam, German Democratic Republic
A. Brandenburg
Affiliation:
1Observatory and Astrophysics Laboratory, University of Helsinki Tähtitorninmäki, SF-00130 Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

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We discuss the observational results of cyclic variations of solar rotation and how these can be used as a means of probing the solar dynamo. We shortly describe two examples of dynamo models where the α-effect has been modified, and compare the resulting flows to the observations.

Type
VI. Generation of Solar Magnetic Fields
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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