August 31, 2010 | 2:00 PM | RI 480 | Special Seminar Can we predict sunspot cycles? Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Indian Institute of Science
The 11-year sunspot cycle is believed to be produced by the MHD dynamo process. I shall summarize our current understanding of the solar dynamo and discuss the question whether solar dynamo models have become realistic enough by now to make predictions of future cycles possible.
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