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STP12 Abstracts<br />

Berlin, 12 - 16 July <strong>2010</strong><br />

SCOSTEP Symposium <strong>2010</strong><br />

A possible expl<strong>an</strong>ation of the Maun<strong>der</strong> minimum from a flux tr<strong>an</strong>sport dynamo model<br />

Karak Bidya Binay , Choudhuri Arnab Rai<br />

Department of Physics, Indi<strong>an</strong> <strong>Institut</strong>e of Science<br />

We propose that the poloidal field at the end of the last sunspot cycle before the Maun<strong>der</strong><br />

minimum fell to a very low value due to fluctuations in the Babcock--Leighton process <strong>an</strong>d<br />

also due to the stochastic fluctuations of meridional circulation. With this assumption, a flux<br />

tr<strong>an</strong>sport dynamo model is able to explain various import<strong>an</strong>t features of the historical records<br />

of the Maun<strong>der</strong> minimum (e.g., sudden initiation but gradual recovery, periodic but weaker<br />

oscillation <strong>an</strong>d North-South asymmetry observed during the last phase of Maun<strong>der</strong> minimum)<br />

remarkably well on choosing the parameters of the model suitably to give the correct growth<br />

time.

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