As the process continues and
magnetic flux strength of the sunspot group declines, the lifetime of a sunspot group (of the few sunspot groups that do form) has decreased to where we are now at the point that a sunspot group's lifetime is for a number of cases only a few days.
Not exact matches
During the Maunder Minimum, the
strength of the IMF was approximately 2 nT compared to a mean value of 6.6 nT for the past 40 years, corresponding to an increase of the open solar
magnetic flux of about 350 %.
When the
magnetic flux tube
strength of the
flux tube falls below a critical value the
flux tube are torn apart.