Can the Sun past solar flare’s be predicted .... (more)?

Question

Can the Sun past solar flare’s be predicted to see if there a correlation with the Earth’s cyclical climate changes compaired to the Sun's solar flares?

Answer 1

We can "predicted" past solar flares in away, but not to the extinct that would could go back in time and count all the solar flares that have ever happened.

I recently attended a talk about using computational plasma models to predict solar flares. What the speaker, who works for NASA, can do is take satellite data of the sun, read it into a program and reproduce observed solar flares. The goal is to use current observations of the sun to predict when future solar flares will occur. The problem is that the sun is so complex, it takes supercomputers longer to run, then it does for the flare to form. If he knows when and where on the sun the flare forms then he can use some computational tricks to speed up the calculation.

Answer 2

Yes. Solar flare activity depends directly on the number of sunspots on the sun which varies from year to year but can be calculated. The more sunspots, the more solar flares that exist since solar flares usually occur out of sunspots.

Answer 3

we don't really have any way to calculate past solar flares, we can figure out the sunspot cycle, but if the sun had a very active period where it was shooting out lots of matter unless there is some evidence of it on earth or the other planets we would never know that it had happened.

Answer 4

No we can show that there is a pattern but to predict the future flares it can not be done . When we had astronauts on the Moon we were always watching the sun for any indication of activity. If they were caught out of the LIM it would all be over.

Answer 5

yes the solar flares and sunspots both have a cylic/ycle they follow like any seasonal event here on earth.i beielve it'; linked to the amount of helium or hydrogen that accumulates due to fission that its spued out into the corona-like a solar volcano of sorts.