Alexei Pevtsov

NameAlexei Pevtsov
AffiliationNational Solar Observatory, USA
TitleSynoptic Solar Physics: Results from Long Term Data-sets
AuthorsAlexei Pevtsov
AbstractThe research community is pushing hard to explore the Sun with the highest-possible spatial resolution and the fastest time cadence. We justify this by the need to better understand the physics of solar activity and to develop a reliable space weather forecast. However, our understanding of solar activity will be incomplete and even distorted, if we do not know how present activity compares with the past, and what changes may had been occurring in properties of solar phenomena. This talk will outline the importance of long-term datasets and review the results of modern synoptic studies. We will also present the current efforts aimed at addressing the continuity of long-term observations of the Sun