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Data on the value and sign of the circumpolar magnetic field of the Sun at a maximum of its activity in cycle 24 have been analyzed. The data were obtained from observations at the Wilcox Solar Observatory and from synoptic maps of the magnetic field built in the SOLIS project (SOLIS stands for Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun) and with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). We studied the dynamics of the total magnetic fields in the circumpolar latitudinal zones of different extension in the northern and southern hemispheres. The epochs of the sign reversal of the polar magnetic field were determined. It was found that, in cycle 24, the magnetic field polarity changed three times in the northern hemisphere and only once in the southern one. In the northern hemisphere, the reversal of the polar magnetic field finished approximately a year earlier than that in the southern one. The obtained results are compared to the data on the sign reversal of the polar magnetic field of the Sun reported for the previous solar cycles.
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Original Russian Text © M.I. Pishkalo, U.M. Leiko, 2015, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2016, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 37–47.
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Pishkalo, M.I., Leiko, U.M. Dynamics of the circumpolar magnetic field of the Sun at a maximum of cycle 24. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 32, 78–85 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591316020069
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