The Solar Cycle 24 Consensus Prediction

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The Solar Cycle 24 Consensus Prediction Douglas Biesecker (NOAA/SEC) and the Solar Cycle 24 Panel

WHAT IS A SOLAR CYCLE? Solar activity rises and falls over an 11 year cycle Can be shorter/longer Activity correlates with Sunspot Number

The Solar Cycle 24 Panel Charged with determining the official prediction for Solar Cycle 24 for NOAA, NASA, and the International Space Environment Service (ISES) Time and intensity of solar cycle 24 Sunspot number F10.7 Panel chaired by NOAA, funded by NASA Previous panels met in 1989 and 1996 International membership The panel has 12 voting members Only 11 voted on these predictions

The Panel Panelist Affiliation D. Biesecker NOAA, Chair D. Pesnell NASA M. Dikpati NCAR M. Rast U. Colorado K. Dowdy USAF L. Svalgaard ETK Inc. D. Hathaway R. Thompson IPS Australia T. Hoeksema Stanford U. R. Van der Linden Royal Obs. Of Belgium E. Kihn NOAA J. Kunches NOAA, ex-officio H. Lundstedt Swedish Inst. of Space Sci. O.C. St. Cyr NASA,

The Consultants Consultant Affiliation P. Charbonneau U. Montreal K. Strong Lockheed Martin P. McIntosh HelioSynoptics A. Tlatov Kislovodsk Solar Station, Russia M. Penn National Solar Observatory S. Tobias Leeds Univ., UK J. Sanders USAF R. Ulrich UCLA

The Panel is today releasing predictions for The impending solar minimum Marking onset of Cycle 24 Provided basis for the other predictions The peak sunspot number expected for Cycle 24 The time of the peak sunspot number What follows is the consensus of the panel

Solar Minimum Prediction March, 2008 (±6 months) Marks the end of Cycle 23 and start of Cycle 24 The length of Cycle 23 will then be 11.75 years due to the absence of expected signatures of minimum-like conditions in March, 2007 no high-latitude sunspots yet observed with the Cycle 24 polarity the large scale corona has not yet relaxed to a simple dipole the heliospheric current sheet has not yet flattened activity measures, e.g. cosmic ray flux, radio flux, and sunspot number, have not yet reached typical solar minimum values

Cycle 24 Maximum Prediction Will peak at a sunspot number of 140(±20) in October, 2011 (F10.7 = 187 sfu) Or Will peak at a sunspot number of 90(±10) in August, 2012 (F10.7 = 141 sfu) The panel is split! The next cycle will be neither extreme, nor average

The April 25 Prediction

How split is the panel? Voting came out 6-5 Favoring small Allowing voters to express their confidence in each prediction resulted in an even closer result 5.8 to 5.2

A few comments… Why the panel still disagrees… We’re still a long way from solar minimum 5-17 months based on panel prediction What’s the main difference between the big (140) and small (90) predictions? Big – assume solar memory lasts 20-30 years Small – assume solar memory lasts 11 years This is the view of the panel chair

What to watch for… What would cause the big predictors to think small If solar minimum drags out beyond March, 2008 What would cause the small predictors to think big If either the magnetic field at the sun’s poles increases in strength or geomagnetic activity increases before March, 2008

There is still work to do… The panel will re-evaluate conditions on the sun every 3 months The panel will update this prediction annually, or as things change.

The Panel chair wishes to thank, Susan Baltuch, Ellen Martinez, and Eron Brennan for their support of the panel workshops held at UCAR in Boulder NASA for providing the funding of this effort The panel members, for working hard and with a very good spirit