SPRG Seminars
November 1, 2011:
" Modeling the Physical Connection Between the Solar Interior and Atmosphere"
Bill Abbett, Space Science Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
The question of how magnetic energy and flux emerge from the turbulent convective interior of the Sun into the solar atmosphere is of great importance to a number of challenging problems in solar physics. With a wealth of data from missions such as SDO, we see that the dynamic interaction of structures observed at the visible surface and in the solar atmosphere occurs over a vast range of spatial and temporal scales. Yet reliable quantitative descriptions of the convection zone-to-corona system over global spatial scales remain elusive. In this talk, I will summarize current progress in the effort to model this disparate system, and and present an analysis of the flux of electromagnetic energy that enters the corona from below the visible surface in a simulation of a quiescent, open-field region.