Schlegel, K.; Diendorfer, G.; Thern, S.; Schmidt, M.: Thunderstorms, lightning and solar activity - Middle Europe. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 63, pp. 1705 - 1713 (2001)
Schmidt, J. M.: Spatial transport and spectral transfer of solar wind turbulence composed of Alfvén waves and convective structures II: Numerical results. Annales Geophysicae 13 (5), pp. 475 - 493 (1995)
Schmidt, J. M.; Marsch, E.: Spatial transport and spectral transfer of solar wind turbulence composed of Alfvén waves and convective structures I: The theoretical model. Annales Geophysicae 13 (5), pp. 459 - 474 (1995)
Schmidt, M.; Borchers, R.; Fabian, P.; Flentje, G.; Matthews, W. A.; Szabo, A.; Lal, S.: Trace gas measurements during aircraft flights in the tropopause region over Europe and North Africa. J. Atmos. Chem. 2, pp. 133 - 143 (1984)
Schmidt, M.: Results of ozone measurements in Northern Germany-A case study. In: Ozone in the Troposphere and Stratosphere, Part 1, pp. 170 - 173 (Ed. Hudson, R. D.). GSFC, Greenbelt (1994)
Schmidt, J.: Zur magneto-hydro-dynamischen Turbulenz im Sonnenwind und in der Sonnenkorona: numerische Simulation und Datenanalyse. Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1993)
The main research fields of the department "Sun and Heliosphere" are covered by the research groups "Solar and Stellar Coronae", "Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism", "Solar and Stellar Magnetohydrodynamics" and "Solar Variability and Climate".
How does our star heat its outer atmosphere, the solar corona, to unimaginable temperatures of up to 10 million degrees Celsius? With unprecedented observational data from ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft and powerful computer simulations, ERC starting grant awardee Pradeep Chitta intends to bring new momentum to the search for the coronal heating mechanism.
The research group “Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism” (SLAM) studies the conditions and dynamic processes in the atmospheric layer between the solar surface (photosphere) and the overlying chromosphere, an approximately 2000 km thick gas layer.