Solar Meridional Flow (VIDEO)

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

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The meridional flow, visualized here by moving corks, sets the period of the solar magnetic cycle by transporting the magnetic field around the convection in 22 years (two sunspot cycles).

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MPS (Z.-C. Liang)

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