Global Circulation of the Sun: Where are we and where are we going?

The Maunder Minimum

1976 • 1,897 citations

Studies of Stellar Rotation. V. The Dependence of Rotation on Age among Solar-Type Stars

1967 • 654 citations

Electric currents in cosmic plasmas

1977 • 252 citations

Nonlinear dynamics of boussinesq convection in a deep rotating spherical shell-i

1977 • 217 citations

Differential Rotation in Stellar Convection Zones

1970 • 180 citations

On the angular momentum loss of late-type stars

1977 • 158 citations

The General Circulation of the Solar Atmosphere and the Maintenance of the Equatorial Acceleration.

1965 • 156 citations

A model of the solar cycle driven by the dynamo action of the global convection in the solar convection zone

1975 • 148 citations

Determination of the Solar-Rotation Rate from the Motion of Identifiable Features

1966 • 112 citations

Solar p-mode oscillations as a tracer of radial differential rotation

1979 • 89 citations

Angular velocity gradients in the solar convection zone

1979 • 78 citations

Nonaxisymmetric Convection in a Rotating Spherical Shell

1970 • 78 citations

Material motions in sunspot umbrae

1977 • 77 citations

Linear Simulations of Boussinesq Convection in a Deep Rotating Spherical Shell

1975 • 77 citations

Solar rotation during the Maunder Minimum

1976 • 75 citations

Inhomogeneous convection and the equatorial acceleration of the sun

1971 • 71 citations

Differential rotation caused by anisotropic turbulent viscosity

1970 • 66 citations

On the Dynamo Action of the Global Convection in the Solar Convection Zone

1972 • 66 citations

Nonlinear boussinesq convective model for large scale solar circulations

1972 • 65 citations

Nonlinear dynamics of boussinesq convection in a deep rotating spherical shell II: Effects of temperature boundary conditions

1978 • 61 citations

A possible variation of the solar rotation with the activity cycle

1976 • 59 citations

Evidence for large-scale velocity features on the sun

1979 • 58 citations

Model calculations concerning rotation at high solar latitudes and the depth of the solar convection zone

1979 • 58 citations

Nonlinear astrophysical dynamos - The solar cycle as a nonlinear oscillation of the general magnetic field driven by the nonlinear dynamo and the associated modulation of the differential-rotation-global-convection system

1978 • 58 citations

Magnetic Coupling of the Active Chromosphere to the Solar Interior

1972 • 54 citations

On the rotation of gas and magnetic fields at the solar photosphere

1975 • 54 citations

The Generation of Magnetic Fields in Astrophysical Bodies. VII. Dynamical Considerations

1971 • 52 citations

World Data Center A for Solar-Terrestrial Physics

1976 • 52 citations

Dynamo Theory and the Solar Cycle

1976 • 47 citations

On the Solar Differential Rotation and Meridional Currents

1967 • 44 citations

Differential Rotation, Meridional Velocities, and Pole-Equator Difference in Temperature of a Rotating Convective Spherical Shell

1971 • 44 citations

Solar rotation, 1966–1978

1979 • 42 citations

Anomalous Solar Rotation in the Early 17th Century

1977 • 37 citations

Convection in a rotating deep compressible spherical shell: Application to the Sun

1977 • 35 citations

The rotation of the Sun

1978 • 35 citations

Differential rotation and giant cell circulation of solar Ca+-network

1976 • 32 citations

Theory of Convection in a Deep Rotating Spherical Shell, and Its Application to the Sun

1976 • 28 citations

Surface Reynolds stresses determined from the analysis of facular motions and the maintenance of the Sun's differential rotation

1976 • 27 citations

Differential Rotation of Convective Spherical Shells

1971 • 25 citations

Differential rotation rates for short-lived regions of emerging magnetic flux

1978 • 24 citations

K faculae as tracers of the solar differential rotation

1977 • 23 citations

Solar-cycle variations in the differential rotation of solar magnetic fields.

1977 • 22 citations

An attempt to compare the differential rotation of the Ca+-network with that of the photospheric plasma

1978 • 21 citations

Large scale circulation in the convection zone and solar differential rotation

1976 • 20 citations

Solar polar spin-down

1973 • 17 citations

Two-dimensional stochastic motions and the problem of differential rotation

1977 • 14 citations

Is there a solar polar vortex

1978 • 14 citations

Magnetic field rotation at high solar latitudes

1978 • 12 citations

Spectroscopic evidence for a higher rotation rate of magnetized plasma at the solar photosphere

1976 • 11 citations

Comments on ?solar polar spindown?, by Kenneth Schatten

1974 • 9 citations

A possible example of giant convective cells delineated by magnetic fields

1976 • 9 citations

Secular Changes in Solar Rotation, 1888-1964.

1978 • 7 citations

Momentum and energy transport in the Sun's convection zone under the observational constraint of flux and temperature homogeneity at the surface

1978 • 6 citations

Variations of the Sun's Radius and Temperature Due to Magnetic Buoyancy.

1979 • 4 citations

Summary of the Final Discussion on August 29

1976 • 4 citations

Solar Activity (Activité Solaire)

1979 • 1 citations