Tracking and Evolution of Solar Active Regions
Senior Project: 1988-1989
April Casale, Darren Kalmbach and David Kulhanek
Solar scientists have been gathering data on the active regions of the Sun for
many years. This data categorizes each active region into classifications based
on attributes such as polarity, existence of a penumbra, size, symmetry, and
distribution of sunspots. The goal of the project, which was written in a
C/UNIX environment, was to provide a data analysis tool to assist scientists in
determining if there is a common evolutionary sequence followed by these
regions as they evolve through the 63 possible active region classifications.
The detection of common evolutionary sequences could aid in the prediction of
solar flares.
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