Long Term Variation of Solar Corona from SOHO/EIT Observations

We present the long term variation of solar corona based on SOHO/EIT observations from 1996 to 2004. EIT provides diagnostics of bulk corona in three channels with overlapping temperature range from 0.5 MK to 2.7 MK and with high spatial resolution. We find that the coronal emission measure increases by a factor of 4 from $2.0\times10^{27}$ cm $^{-5}$ at the solar minimum to $8.0\times10^{27}$ cm $^{-5}$ at the solar maximum. In the meantime, the overall temperature of the corona increases from 1.3 MK to 1.7 MK To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html