Earth Changes 2003

Links, Notes, & References
for the
Almanac & Calendar

NOTES ABOUT TERMS & DATA

JAN | FEB | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG | SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC | EARLY 2004

HOW TO USE SUNSPOTS TO PREDICT THE WEATHER 

Notes About The Terms & Data

External reference links to web resources are embedded into the alphabetical list of terms below.

Alignment Mark:  Mercury | Earth = Mercury is on the same degree of the Earth, as seen from the circumference of the Sun (or as seen by looking down at the entire solar system from a billion miles).

ISSN:  International Sunspot Number (series began in the 17th century and sunspots are still counted by the same methods to provide a continous series.

Flux Index:  a measurement of radio wave energy at a certain bandwidth.  Generally the flux index goes up and down like the sunspot count.

Home Planet Software:The planetary alignments are calculated using the Home Planet Software, which is shareware available for download on the internet. The software creates a picture of the location of all the planets in the solar system for any given date.  By allowing the software to step through the year day by day, all planetary alignments can be found and a picture taken of the relative relationships of the planets.

Planetary A Index:  a measurement of the magnetic space environment

Planet Symbols:  Use the rings in the charts to learn the symbols:

First Planet:  Mercury

Second Planet:  Venus

Third Planet:  Earth

Fourth Planet:  Mars

Fifth Planet:  Jupiter

Sixth Planet:  Saturn

Seventh Planet:  Neptune

Eight Planet:  Uranus

Ninth Planet:  Pluto:  This planet not used in the calendar because it does create much of an impact when the other planets align with it

Tenth Planet:  Not yet discovered

SESC or Space Operations Sunspot Number (WOA): with better monitoring of the sun which new technology made possible after WWII,  scientists began counting more phenomenon than could be counted previouly. The new daily numbers which are defined by NASA have a good continuity from 1994 only and generally their numbers are about 25% to 30% higher than the old ISSN method.

Sunspot & Solar Activity, Orientation

• Introduction To Sunspot Cycles

Sunspot Cycle 23
Sunspot counts rise and fall approximately every 11.1 years. The cycle, though, is not symmetrical, for the spot count takes on the average about 4.8 years to rise from a minimum to a maximum and another 6.2 years to fall to a minimum once again. The largest annual mean number (190.2) occurred in 1957. The current cycle is known internationally by researchers as Sunspot Cycle 23

• Solar Cycle 23 Prediction and Study by NOAA

• Current Solar Cycle Prediction
  (last 8 years plus next 6 years)

Sunspot Numbers, Archives:  see

• How Sunspot Numbers Are Calculated
  (NOAA)

• International Space Envrinoment Center
  (NOAA)

• International Sunspot Data
  (Belgium Center)

• NOAA ONLINE DATA ARCHIVE

• NOAA SOLAR TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS SATELLITE DATA

• Solar Data and Products Online at SEC

• SOLAR DATABASES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE MODELS
  (for archives to all U.S. technical data about the Sun)

• Sunspot Data 1994 to Current

Sunspot Numbers, Current:  see

• Today's Space Weather
  (NOAA)

• Current Sunspot Graph & Solar Activity Synopsis
  (the Solar Terrestrial Activity Report by Jan Alvestad )

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