Abstract We review the status of the best “off-the-shelf” tool available for the study of dynamical behavior of coronal transients and traveling interplanetary disturbances. This tool involves numerical solution of the initial-boundary value problem of multi-dimensional time-dependent magnetohydrodynamics. While this tool cannot address questions of turbulence and kinetic behavior, we suggest that deeper understanding of large scale phenomena can be obtained by direct comparison of the MHD models with multi-disciplinary synoptic observations of specific events on the sun, and in the corona and interplanetary space. Conclusions reached after a recent critique (based on a limited set of observational and numerical data) of the MHD paradigm's application to coronal transients are examined and found to have limited validity. Substantial observational progress was achieved during SMY through ground- and space-based observations of solar and interplanetary events. Many of these observations can confidently be associated with one another for specific events. These associations can be combined into a reasonable scenario of geometrical extent and mass, energy and momentum transfer in the framework of the solar-terrestrial chain of cause and effect. Several of these events during STIP Interval VII in August 1979 are used to provide test cases for an MHD simulation that is described with some details. The bringing-together of diverse observations is necessary in order to outline a program for the testing of dynamical models and their more physically-restricted approximations.


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    Titel :

    Dynamical models of coronal transients and interplanetary disturbances


    Beteiligte:
    Dryer, M. (Autor:in) / Smart, D.F. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.1984


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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