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The Solar Dynamo: The Role of Penetration, Rotation and Shear on Convective Dynamos

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In this paper I discuss the importance of turbulence, rotation, penetration and shear for solar dynamos (both local and global). An understanding of these processes is vital for progress towards a self-consistent theory for the generation of solar magnetic activity. I discuss the difficulties for large-scale field generation and suggest that large-scale solar magnetic activity may be driven by dynamos that arise owing to instabilities, with these dynamos modified by the presence of turbulence.

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Tobias, S.M. The Solar Dynamo: The Role of Penetration, Rotation and Shear on Convective Dynamos. Space Sci Rev 144, 77–86 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-008-9442-0

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