Dr. Charles L. Wolff

Space Scientist

Solar Physics Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

RESEARCH AREAS:                           Physics and Astronomy

EDUCATION:                                       1952 - B.S. -           Physics - Penn State University

                                                                1956 - M.S. -          Physics - University of Illinois

                                                                1961 - Ph.D. -         Physics + Astronomy minor - University of Illinois

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:                     1956 (Summer) Physicist, Martin Company, Baltimore, Maryland

                                                                1956 – 1961  Teaching & Research Assistants, U. of Illinois

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY:               American Astronomical Society

AWARD:                                              2005 - Cash award from Goddard for an Exploration Initiative.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Recent:

Wolff, C. L., 1995:  Oscillation-convection coupling:  Cause of supergranulation?  Astrophys. J., 443, 423.

Wolff, C. L., 1996:  Convection:  Periodic due to r-modes.  Astrophys. J. Lett., 459, L103.

Wolff, C. L., 1997:  Large convective events and their aftermath in a rotating star.  Astrophys. J., 486, 1058.

Wolff, C. L., 1998:  Linear r-Mode Oscillations in a Differentially Rotating Star. Astrophys. J., 502, 961.

Wolff, C. L., 2000:  Linear r-Modes below the Sun’s Convective Envelope.  Astrophys. J., 531, 591.

Mayr, H. G., Wolff, C. L., & Hartle, R. E., 2001.  Wave Driven Nonlinear Flow Oscillator for the 22 year Solar Cycle.  Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 463.

Wolff, C. L., 2002:  Rotational Sequences of Global Oscillations Inside the Sun.  Astrophys. J., 580, L181.

Wolff, C. L. & Mayr, H. G., 2004:  The Sun’s Reversing Flows and Heat Spike as Caused by g-Modes.  Astrophys. J., 606, L163.

Mayr, H. G., Mengel, J. G., & Wolff, C. L., 2005:  Wave-driven Equatorial Annual Oscillation Induced and Modulated by the Solar Cycle.  Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted.

A Few Others:

Wolff, C. L., 1972:  Free oscillations of the Sun and their possible stimulation by solar flares.  Astrophys. J., 176, 833.

Wolff, C. L., 1974:  Distinctive patterns on the surface of slowly rotating stars whose oscillations are nonlinearly coupled.  Astrophys. J., 193, 721.

Wolff, C. L., 1983:  The rotational spectrum of g-modes in the Sun.  Astrophys. J., 264, 667.

Wolff, C. L., 1984:  Solar irradiance changes caused by g-modes and large-scale convection.  Solar Physics, 93, 1.

Wolff, C. L., and W. R. Hoegy, 1989:  Periodic solar EUV flux monitored near Venus.  Solar Physics, 123, 7.

Wolff, C. L., 1992:  Intermittent solar periodicities.  Solar Physics, 142, 187.