Self-organized criticality in solar flares: a cellular automata approach

We give an overview of a novel lattice-based avalanche model that reproduces well a number of observed statistical properties of solar flares. The anisotropic lattice is defined as a network of vertically-connected nodes subjected to horizontal random displacements mimicking the kinks introduced by...

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Main Authors: L. F. Morales, P. Charbonneau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2010-07-01
Series:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Online Access:http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/17/339/2010/npg-17-339-2010.pdf