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9781107405356

The Solar Tachocline

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107405356

  • ISBN10:

    1107405351

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-07-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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This book was first published in 2007. Helioseismology has enabled us to probe the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun, including how its rotation varies in the solar interior. The unexpected discovery of an abrupt transition - the tachocline - between the differentially rotating convection zone and the uniformly rotating radiative interior has generated considerable interest and raised many fundamental issues. This volume contains invited reviews from distinguished speakers at the first meeting devoted to the tachocline, held at the Isaac Newton Institute. It provides a comprehensive account of the understanding of the properties and dynamics of the tachocline, including both observational results and major theoretical issues, involving both hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic behaviour. The Solar Tachocline is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in astrophysics, heliospheric physics and geophysics, and the dynamics of fluids and plasmas.

Table of Contents

Preface
Setting the Scene
An introduction to the solar tachocline
Reflections on the solar tachocline
Observations
Observational results and issues concerning the tachocline
Hydrodynamic Models
Hydrodynamic models of the tachocline
Turbulence in the tachocline
Mean field modelling of differential rotation
Hydromagnetic Properties
Magnetic confinement of the solar tachocline
Magnetic confinement and the sharp tachopause
ß-Plane MHD turbulence and dissipation in the solar tachocline
Instabilities
Global MHD instabilities of the tachocline
Magnetic buoyancy instabilities in the tachocline
Instabilities, angular momentum transport and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Dynamo Action
The solar dynamo and the tachocline
Overview
On studying the rotating solar interior
Index
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