Statistics of solar flares
- Mike Wheatland worked on topics as diverse as methods for modeling solar coronal magnetic fields, interpretation of solar photospheric vector magnetic field measurements, analysis of the solar neutrino flux, and solar flare statistics [Litvinenko et al., 2001; Uchida et al., 2001; Wheatland, 2000a,b,c,d, 2001a,b; Wheatland et al., 2001].
- Recent work has focused on flare statistics, and a particular highlight is the construction of a new model for the observed power-law spectrum of flare energies (Wheatland 2002, Craig and Wheatland 2002). Part of this work was done in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Ian Craig from the University of Waikato.
- Type III burst electrons and solar heating
- Shock models and location in Earth's foreshock
- Density turbulence in the outer heliosphere
- Shock acceleration
