Variations of interplanetary parameters in different types of
large-scale solar-wind phenomena during 21-24 solar cycles
Abstract
We study the behavior of solar wind (SW) parameters over 21-24 solar
cycles (SCs). We take into account that these variation can depend on
three reasons: (1) type of SW, (2) phase of SC, and (3) SC number. Our
catalog of large-scale SW types for 1976-2018 (see the website
ftp://ftp.iki.rssi.ru/pub/omni/ [Yermolaev et al., 2009]) covers the
period from the 21st to the 24th SC and allows us to analyze
independently these three reasons, since we can select SW parameters for
different types of SW (in particularly, slow and fast SW, Sheath, ICME,
CIR) and at different phases of different SCs. Preliminary data show
that with an increase in the SC number (1) the number of perturbed SW
types decreases and (2) the values of plasma and magnetic field
parameters decrease in each type of SW, and for each phases of SCs. The
most rapid change in parameters was observed during the minimum period
between the 22nd and 23rd cycles. The work was supported by the Russian
Science Foundation, grant 16-12-10062. References Yermolaev, Y.I.,
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