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1) Secrets of the Sun25 April 2011:
Our own Sarah Gibson and
Scott McIntosh are among the solar researchers featured in a new episode of the PBS series NOVA. "Secrets of the Sun".
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2) Inauguration of the Boulder Fabry-Perot Interferometer upper-atmosphere wind observation16 March 2012:
A Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) was installed at NCAR Marshall Field, just to the south-east of Boulder, to observe thermospheric and mesospheric winds.
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3) Tying the Sun together6 February 2012:
HAO solar science is featured in a new article on NCAR/UCAR "AtmosNews". The article profiles the efforts to study and connect the solar dynamo and magnetic flux emergence by Mark Miesch and colleagues.
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4) Identifying the Beginnings and Ends of Solar Cycles4 January 2012:
HAO scientist's Mausumi Dikpati, Peter Gilman, Giuliana de Toma, and UCLA professor Roger Ulrich find that the latitude at which plasma sinking occurs is very important.
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5) Modeling the Impact of Severe Space Weather14 December 2011:
Space physicist, Mike Wiltberger –New simulations from the Coupled Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere model offer an improved view of the dynamic charged-material exchanges generated during magnetic storms.
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