The Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) occupies part of the NOAA Mauna Loa research site located on the flank of Mauna Loa at an elevation of 3440 meters on the island of Hawaii. It is operated by the High Altitude Observatory, a division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is located in Boulder, Colorado.
Submitted by whawkins on April 28, 2020 - 8:29am
Dr. Boon Chye Low joined HAO in 1981 and retired as Senior Scientist in 2014. His research centered on the corona & solar wind and their coupling to the solar lower-atmosphere and interior.
Mission Lifetime: 1956 to 1978
The slides in this collection were written By P. Charbonneau and O.R. White–April 18, 1995.
Submitted by kolinski on November 16, 2016 - 10:41am
Determining the state of the corona prior to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is crucial to understanding and ultimately predicting solar eruptions. A common and compelling feature of CMEs is their three-part morphology as seen in white light observations of a bright expanding loop, followed by a relatively dark cavity, and lastly a bright core associated with an erupting prominence/filament.
Here is a catalogue providing detailed analysis of 98 white light cavities observed by MLSO's Mk4 coronameter:
Submitted by whawkins on July 25, 2016 - 3:47pm
Giuliana de Toma is a Project Scientist in the High Altitude Observatory of NCAR specializing in solar cycle variability and its influence on the corona and heliosphere.
Submitted by whawkins on April 14, 2016 - 10:54am
Dr. Steven Tomczyk is a Senior Scientist in the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has spent his career developing instrumentation for the remote sensing of magnetic and velocity fields on the Sun.
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