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Magnetoconvection Patterns in Rotating Convection Zones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Paul H. Roberts
Paul H. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Center for Earth and Planetary Interiors, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024

Abstract

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In addition to the well-known granulation and supergranulation of the solar convection zone (the “SCZ”), the presence of so-called “giant cells” has been postulated. These are supposed span the entire thickness of the SCZ and to stretch from pole to pole in a sequence of elongated cells like a “cartridge belt” or a bunch of “bananas” strung uniformly round the Sun. Conclusive evidence for the existence of such giant cells is still lacking, despite strenuous observational efforts to find them. After analyses of sunspot motion, Ribes and others believe that convective motions near the solar surface occurs in a pattern that is the antithesis of the cartridge belt: a system of “toroidal” or “doughnut” cells, girdling the Sun in a sequence that extends from one pole to the other. Galloway, Jones and Roberts have recently tried to meet the resulting theoretical challenge, with the mixed success reported in this paper.

Type
Part I Convection and turbulence as the basis of magnetic activity
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 130: The Sun and Cool Stars: activity, magnetism, dynamos , 1991 , pp. 37 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1991

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