Surface Pressure Fluctuations Produced by the Total Solar Eclipse of 1 August 2008

Solar radiation during a total solar eclipse

The Total Solar Eclipse of March 2006: overview

This paper provides the overview of an integrated, multi-disciplinary effort to study the effects of the 29 March 2006 total solar eclipse on the environment, with special focus on the atmosphere. The eclipse has been visible over the Eastern Mediterranean, and on this occasion several research and academic institutes organised co-ordinated experimental campaigns, at different distances from ec...

Effects of total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 on surface radiation

Solar irradiance spectral measurements were performed during a total solar eclipse. The spectral effect of the limb darkening to the global, direct irradiance and actinic flux measurements was investigated. This effect leads to wavelength dependent changes in the measured solar spectra showing a much more pronounced decrease in the radiation at the lower wavelengths. Radiative transfer model re...

The Detection of Atmospheric Waves Produced by the Total Solareclipse of 11 August 1999

Previous attempts to detect Eclipse-induced acoustic gravity waves (AGWs) have met with varying degrees of success. In this study the speed and direction of the waves have been determined at two widely spaced locations by an HF Doppler technique. The AGW activity following the eclipse was different to the background waves detected before the event in amplitude, speed and direction. The velocity...

Search for neutrino radiative decays during a total solar eclipse

We present the results of the measurements performed in the occasion of the 2001 total solar eclipse, looking for visible photons emitted through a possible radiative decay of solar neutrinos. We establish lower limits for the ν2 and ν3 proper lifetimes above 10 s/eV, for neutrino masses larger than 10 eV.