A Synoptic Overview of Whole Sun Month Observations

D. Biesecker, D. Alexander, R.C. Altrock, C. DeForest, A. Fludra, B. Forsyth, T. Galvin, S. Gibson, D. Hassler, T.W. Henry, J.T. Hoeksema, C. Korendyke, A. Lazarus, A. Lecinski, R. Lepping, A. Panasyuk, P. Riley, J. Steinberg, L. Strachan, B. Thompson, T. Summanen and A. Szabo

The Whole Sun Month campaign uses a coordinated set of observations made by SOHO and other space--based and ground--based instruments. The observations were centered on the conditions of the near--solar--minimum, low altitude corona between August 10 and September 8, 1996. The goal of the analysis of these observations is to quantify the large--scale physical properties ({\it e.g.} densities, temperatures, velocities, and magnetic field) in the solar minimum corona between 1 and 3 solar radii. The connection between low coronal structures and in-situ observations of the solar wind are being studied as well. In this poster we present an overview of the observations, including data taken from the following instruments: SOHO/UVCS, SOHO/LASCO, SOHO/EIT, SOHO/SUMER, SOHO/CDS, SOHO/MDI, SOHO/CELIAS, SOHO/SWAN, WIND/SWE, WIND/MFI, Ulysses/SWOOPS, Ulysses magnetometer, Wilcox Solar Observatory, Mauna Loa MkIII Coronagraph, and NSO/Sacramento Peak.

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