Grand Archive of Flare and CME Cartoons

October 9, 2008

Why an archive? Why a cartoon?

Cartoons play an important role in discussions of how solar flares and CMEs work. These discussion may take place in august forums, or in pubs at any point around the solar world (see bar bets ). In place of a self-consistent theory, a cartoon is often the only way to guess how different features of an event might be related. At the bottom of this page we have a random selection from each of three categories of cartoons. To scroll through the Archive randomly, simply use the "refresh" button on the browser. To view it systematically, click on the names below or look at the (chronological) overview or the matrix-style displays of thumbnail images. These are large pages and require broadband access to load properly. Each cartoon page has some (often loose) information about its origin and a link to the published paper. Here are links to the gaudiest cartoon and to my favorite.

If you have contributions, preferably with nice digital versions of published cartoons, please send them to me at hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu. This Archive grows with time, and if you help that would be good. Some missing cartoons in the list of items are ones that the Grand Archivist knows about and that should be included in the future. Of course if you see errors in what I've written about any of these, please let me hear.

Direct links to the toons individually by author's name

Giovanelli	Dungey	Sweet	Piddington	Gold-Hoyle	Gold
Gold_CME	De_Jager_62	Carmichael	De_Jager-Kundu	Byrne	Kundu
Sturrock	Alfven-Carlqvist	Hyder	Najita-Orrall	Lin	Chiu
Kane-Donnelly	Wild-Smerd	Palmer-Smerd	Strauss-Papagiannis	Elliot	Hirayama
Piddington_74	Bratenahl-Baum	Obayashi	Brown-Hoyng	Kopp-Pneuman	Spicer
Kosugi	Anzer-Pneuman	Cliver	Parker	Cargill-Priest	Nakajima
Ionson	Uchida-Sakurai	Heyvaerts	Colgate	Melrose-White	Akasofu
Priest-Milne	Svestka	De Jager	Dowdy	Somov	Forbes-Malherbe
Tanaka	Schmieder	Tsuneta-Naito	Wang	Uchida-Shibata	Cane
Martens-Kuin	Van Ballegooijen-Martens	Sakurai	Martinell	Bespalov	Winglee
Melrose_92	Vlahos	Wheatland-Melrose	Haerendel	Gosling, Birn and Hesse
Forbes-Acton	Melrose	Somov-Kosugi	Magara	Canfield-Reardon
Shibata	Tsuneta	Klimchuk	Aschwanden-Benz	Moore	Hanaoka
Antiochos	Jakimiec	McKenzie-Hudson	Titov-Demoulin	Sturrock_99	Berger
Hudson	Longcope-Welsch	Aschwanden	Lin-Forbes	Forbes	Gilbert
Longcope	Shimojo-Shibata	Delannee	Sturrock et al.	Fletcher et al.	Crooker
McKenzie (CHSKP)	Kurokawa	Wang et al.	Vrsnak et al.	Simnett	DePontieu et al.
Chen & Krall	Sterling-Moore	Gary-Moore	Gurman	Karlicky	Asai
Karlicky-Kosugi	Benz	Burlaga	Kusano et al.	Georgoulis et al.
Smith	Cliver (II)	Uralov	Li et al.	Takasaki	Foullon
Kliem	Sakai-Kakimoto	Pollock	Liu	Mikic-Lee	Spicer_06
Williams	Droge	Tripathi	Attrill	Ryutova	Tan-Huang
Takasaki_07	Schmieder_EFR	Xu	Hirayama_07	Jing	Fletcher-Hudson
Ji	Liu.W	Freedman-Kaufmann	Lee-Gary	Kontar	Lehtinen
Wedemeyer-Bohm

Thumbnails - random samples (clickable)

Random sample from those cartoons assuming bipolar magnetic configurations	Random sample from those cartoons assuming complex magnetic configurations	Random sample from the rest

The full Grand Archive of Cartoons

Because of size, we've put the full collection of cartoons, in chronological order and with links to individual pages, on a separate page which should not be downloaded via modem.