Flare/CME Cartoon Archive

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Number:	389
1st Author:	Hugh Hudson
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Published:	27 September 2020
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LINK

http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/cartoons/index.html

Introduction and Conclusion

This simply announces a revised version of the Flare/CME Cartoon Archive and to provides the link to it. At the time of writing, the Archive contains about 400 entries (actually, more than 0.4 kilotoons at time of writing). These range from one by BIRKELAND to (at present) one by Sijie YU. For those unfamiliar, the home page contains links to its feeble explanations in answer to the routine questions "So what???" and "Why would anyone want to do that???". Not solely for amusement, and none of the entries aimed at that kind of reaction; these cartoons reveal some of the author/artists' best efforts at explaining what they are trying to say in that possibly turgid paper they have written, which the Archive always cites just in case the brief explanation is not sufficiently clear. Further contributions can be sent to the Archivist directly (hugh.hudson@glasgow.ac.uk), and if they meet the Archive's strict standards (e.g., they must have appeared in a refereed journal), they're likely to appear.

Note that the original (now deprecated) version of the Archive can possibly still be accessed, but the new version has substantial improvements.

Request

The descriptive blurbs for the cartoons typically contain links to other cartoons. The idea here is to point to the earliest interesting version of a given idea, and also to other possibly useful consistent or conflicting ones. This is pedagogy at its most primitive! The Archivist (hugh.hudson@glasgow.ac.uk) would happily include any suggestions; for example if you think your toon has been neglected in favor of a less worthy one.