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dc.contributor.authorAshamari, Omar*
dc.contributor.authorQahwaji, Rami S.R.*
dc.contributor.authorIspon, Stanley S.*
dc.contributor.authorSchöll, M.*
dc.contributor.authorNibouche, O.*
dc.contributor.authorHaberreiter, M.*
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-22T09:54:36Z
dc.date.available2015-12-22T09:54:36Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-19
dc.identifier.citationAshamri O, Qahwaji RSR, Ipson SS, Schöll M, Nibouche O, and Haberreiter M (2015) Identification of photospheric activity features from SOHO/MDI data using the ASAP tool. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate. 5.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/7580
dc.descriptionYesen_US
dc.description.abstractThe variation of solar irradiance is one of the natural forcing mechanisms of the terrestrial climate. Hence, the time-dependent solar irradiance is an important input parameter for climate modelling. The solar surface magnetic field is a powerful proxy for solar irradiance reconstruction. The analyses of data obtained with the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on board the SOHO mission are therefore useful for the identification of solar surface magnetic features to be used in solar irradiance reconstruction models. However, there is still a need for automated technologies that would enable the identification of solar activity features from large databases. To achieve this we present a series of enhanced segmentation algorithms developed to detect and calculate the area coverages of specific magnetic features from MDI intensitygrams and magnetograms. These algorithms are part of the Automated Solar Activity Prediction (ASAP) tool. The segmentation algorithms allow us to identify the areas on the solar disk covered by magnetic elements inside and outside boundaries of active regions. Depending on their contrast properties, magnetic features within an active region boundary are classified as sunspot umbra and penumbra, or faculae. Outside an active region boundary magnetic elements are identified as network. We present the detailed steps involved in the segmentation process and provide the area coverages of the segmented MDI intensitygrams and magnetograms. The feature segmentation was carried out on daily intensitygrams and magnetograms from April 21, 1996 to April 11, 2011. This offers an exciting opportunity to undertake further investigations that benefit from solar features segmentations, such as solar irradiance reconstruction, which we plan to investigate in the future.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights(c) 2015 Ashmari, O et al. CC-BY.en_US
dc.subjectSpectral irradiance; Solar image processing; Sunspot; Magnetogram; Active regionen_US
dc.titleIdentification of photospheric activity features from SOHO/MDI data using the ASAP toolen_US
dc.status.refereedYesen_US
dc.date.Accepted2015-05-05
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublished version paperen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2015013
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