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An optimized tidal-trigger model of the QBO, and some implications for the Carrington event
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A solar energy research paper on An optimized tidal-trigger model of the QBO, and some implications for the Carrington event.
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Original abstract
Magneto-Rossby waves in the solar tachocline are currently being discussed as a potential cause of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). By analyzing sequences of ground-level enhancement (GLE) events and S-flares, the dominant period of the QBO was recently shown to be close to 1.723 years, which is the dominant beat between the periods of the two-planet spring tides of Venus, Earth and Jupiter. We improve upon this model by taking into account the dependence of the three tidally-triggered magneto-Rossby waves on the actual strength of the toroidal field at the tachocline, which we infer from the averaged monthly sunspot number. When optimizing the parameters of this magnetic-field dependence, the correlation of the tidal-forcing function with the 109 extreme solar events reaches values of up to 0.8. This is much higher than the corresponding value for the field-independent tidal forcing function (appr. 0.4), and also higher than the correlation with the sunspot number (appr. 0.56). Based on this improved model, we discuss some interesting parallels between the Carrington event of 1859 and the clustering of strong solar events in summer and autumn 1989. We also make some cautious forecasts for the remainder of cycle 25.
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