A Synoptic Overview of Whole Sun Month In-situ Observations

Tuula Summanen (Finnish Meteorological Institute); Craig DeForest (Stanford Univ.); Bob Forsyth (Imperial College); Toni Galvin (Univ. of Maryland); Sarah Gibson (NASA GSFC/NRC); Alan Lazarus (MIT); Ron Lepping (NASA GSFC); Peter Riley (LANL); John Steinberg (MIT); Barbara Thompson (NASA GSFC/ Applied Research Corp.); Adam Szabo (NASA GSFC)

From August 10 - September 8, 1996, a coordinated set of observations were taken by SOHO and other ground-based and space-based instruments, of the large-scale, solar minimum corona under the auspices of the Whole Sun Month (WSM) campaign. These special observations, along with other, standard synoptic observations, have been brought together into a comprehensive combined dataset. In-situ observations corresponding to the WSM data will be presented in the poster, in conjunction with a separate poster on solar observations of WSM. WIND and SOHO provide in-situ data corresponding to the solar central meridian, while Ulysses was located 4.2 AU in the anti-earthward direction. WIND and SOHO's relative locations exceeded 150 earth radii for parts of WSM, which will allow the triangulation of some features while Ulysses was located at a region of variability with both high-speed and low-speed solar wind. The presentation will include synoptic data from the Ulysses/SWOOPS, Ulysses magnetometer, WIND/SWE, WIND/MFI, SOHO/CELIAS and SOHO/SWAN instruments. Carrington maps will be included (rotations 1912 and 1913), as well as combined solar/in-situ data sets.

See Panasyuk et al.

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