Cosmic Rays, Be10 and Ice Cores

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation#Galactic_cosmic_rays Levels of GCRs have been indirectly recorded by their influence on the production of carbon-14 and beryllium-10. The Hallstatt solar cycle length of approximately 2300 years is reflected by climatic Dansgaard-Oeschger events. The 80–90 year solar Gleissberg cycles appear to vary in length depending upon the lengths of the concurrent 11 year solar cycles, [...]

M.A. Vukcevic: Earthquakes and Geomagnetic Storms

Regular contributor M.A. Vukcevic has kindly given permission to reproduce some ongoing research which will be of interest to people learning about earthquakes and their precursor indicators. Vukcevic states: “the tb’s talkshop does not take any responsibility either for statements or data presented. Please note that there are number of the geomag parameters which I [...]

NASA release spaceweather app on iTunes

I’ve bever been jealous of iPhone owners, until now. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/nasa-space-weather/id422621403?uo=2&mt=8&uo=2 More nice screenshots at the link above, including SDO images. Grrrr.

Tim Channon: Modeling the Solar Polar Fields and Barycentric Motion

As each solar cycle progresses from minimum to sunspot maximum, the magnetic fields near the poles of the Sun weaken and then reverse polarity. Cycle maximum usually follows within six months to a year or so of the fields crossing the zero point, and the polar fields then gain opposite polarity strength until sunspot minimum [...]

Explosion at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

More bad news…  Looks like a big explosion at the nuclear plant has stripped the outer cladding from one of the buildings.  Many people are trying to flee the area and the authorities have set up a 40 mile exclusion zone to prevent anyone going in. Here’s hoping that they can prevent a breech of [...]

John L Casey: The Solar – Seismic connection

P.O. Box 607841 Orlando, Fl 32860 Research Report 1-2010 (Preliminary) Correlation of Solar Activity Minimums and Large Magnitude Geophysical Events John L. Casey1 Released for world wide web (www) distribution on Monday, March 1, 2010. [1] An independent review of historical records was performed for 350 years of global volcanic activity (1650-2009) and seismic (earthquake) [...]

Ken Ring: Earthquake predictions in Christchurch NZ : UPDATE: Huge quake hits Japan – Pacific-wide Tsunami Underway

UPDATE 20-3-2012 New thread: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/michele-casati-acapulco-earthquake-successfully-predicted/ UPDATE 2-1-2012. New thread: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/swarms-of-richter-scale-5-and-6-earthquakes-in-christchurch-plus-a-7-off-japan-2/ UPDATE 13-6-2011. New thread with links to all seismic related posts on this blog here: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/more-earthquakes-and-volcanoes-as-sun-goes-blank-again-at-lunar-perigee/ New Zealand’s Herald Sun newspaper has this item: A NEW Zealand mathematician who predicted the deadly Christchurch quake has terrified Kiwis with news another will strike the city in [...]

R.D. Bentley: Building a Virtual Observatory for Heliophysics

Building a Virtual Observatory for Heliophysics R.D. Bentley, University College London Introduction Heliophysics explores the Sun-Solar System Connection and is a relatively new discipline.It generalizes of the study of “space weather” to the whole Solar System and spans several existing disciplines – solar physics, heliospheric physics, and planetary magnetospheric and ionospheric physics. The desire to [...]

Dr David Hathaway: New lower solar cycle 24 prediction

For anyone looking for the solar cycles analysis prediction thread, it is here: The ever shrinking solar cycle 24 prediction from the MSFC Solar Physics Branch members Wilson, Hathaway, and Reichmann has, unsurprisingly, shrunk again. Here’s the March 2011 ‘prediction’

Feb 2011 global temperature anomaly maps

These nicely dug plots just in from Tim Channon. I hope this will become a regular monthly feature, as they give great information in addition to the time series plots provided elsewhere. Click on the images for the full size versions as WordPress compression makes a bit of a mess of them – Sorry Tim. [...]