HR: 14:30h
AN: SH23C-04    [Abstracts]
TI: Appropropriate Application of Source Surface Models
AU: * Hoeksema, J
EM: todd@sun.stanford.edu
AF: HEPL - Stanford University, 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AB: Magnetostatic source surface models provide useful and reasonably reliable indications of the large-scale structure of coronal and interplanetary magnetic and velocity fields. Long term studies of the solar magnetic field can reveal much about the structure of the heliosphere. Improving data availability allows for more frequent calculations with higher spatial and temporal resolution, but still under highly idealized assumptions. The models provide at best a snapshot of a highly dynamic atmosphere. Appropriate application of the models provides a global context for many studies, but care must be exercised to address appropriate questions.
DE: 7509 Corona
DE: 7524 Magnetic fields
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly