Estimating Long-Term Solar Irradiance Variability: A New Approach |
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| Authors: | Vigouroux Anne Pap Judit M Delache Philippe |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratoire Cassini, associé au C.N.R.S. (U.M.R. 6529), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, B.P. 229, F-06304 Nice Cédex 04, France;(2) Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1562, U.S.A. and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 169-506, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 |
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| Abstract: | The detection of solar irradiance variations (both bolometric and at various wavelengths) by satellite-based experiments during the last one-and-a-half decades stimulated modeling efforts to help identify their causes and to provide estimates of irradiance data for those time intervals when no satellite observations exist. In this paper we present estimates of the long-term irradiance changes developed with Fourier and wavelet transforms. The month-to-month irradiance variations, after removing the solar cycle related long-term changes, are studied with the cross-correlation technique. Results of the analysis reveal a significant phase shift at 3 months between the full-disk magnetic field strength and total solar and UV irradiance, with irradiance leading the magnetic field variability. In addition to this time delay between the changes in solar irradiance and the magnetic field, a 10-month phase shift has been found between the UV flux at 280 nm and total solar irradiance corrected for sunspot darkening. The existence of these phase shifts suggests the possibility of a coupling between the physical processes taking place below, in, and above the photosphere. |
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