Our scientific objective is to study the ways in which magnetic fields are spread across the surface of the Sun and how they are gathered into local concentrations. We hope to identify various transport mechanisms of fields in the turbulent, convective photospheric plasma as well as the spatial and temporal scales at which these mechanisms operate. This will include exploration of new approaches to the problem of solar turbulent diffusion. We propose to match the turbulent diffusive models to time series of high-resolution Doppler and magnetic MDI images of both solar active regions and quiet Sun areas. Supplementary comparison with contemporaneous correlation tracking and Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope data will be important as well.
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