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A solar cycle 25 prediction based on 4D-var data assimilation approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2020

Allan Sacha Brun Open the ORCID record for Allan Sacha Brun [Opens in a new window] ,
Ching Pui Hung ,
Alexandre Fournier ,
Laurène Jouve ,
Olivier Talagrand ,
Antoine Strugarek  and
Soumitra Hazra
Allan Sacha Brun
Affiliation:
DAp/AIM, CEA Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Ching Pui Hung
Affiliation:
DAp/AIM, CEA Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France IPGP, Université de Paris, UMR 7154 CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
Alexandre Fournier
Affiliation:
IPGP, Université de Paris, UMR 7154 CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
Laurène Jouve
Affiliation:
Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, 31028 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Olivier Talagrand
Affiliation:
LMD, UMR 8539, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Cedex 05, France
Antoine Strugarek
Affiliation:
DAp/AIM, CEA Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Soumitra Hazra
Affiliation:
DAp/AIM, CEA Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Abstract

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Based on our modern 4D-var data assimilation pipeline Solar Predict we present in this short proceeding paper our prediction for the next solar cycle 25. As requested by the Solar Cycle 25 panel call issued on January 2019 by NOAA/SWPC and NASA, we predict the timing of next minimum and maximum as well as their amplitude. Our results are the following: the minimum should have occured within the first semester of year 2019. The maximum should occur in year 2024.4 ± 6 months, with a value of the sunspot number equal to 92±10. This is in agreement with the NOAA/NASA consensus published in April 2019. Note that our prediction errors are based on 1-σ measure and do not consider all the systematics, so they are likely underestimated. We will update our prediction and error analysis regularly as more data becomes available and we improve our prediction pipeline.

Keywords

Sundynamo11-yr cyclesolar cycle predictiondata analysisdata assimilation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 15 , Symposium S354: Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields: Origins and Manifestations , June 2019 , pp. 138 - 146
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2020

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