Solar rotation measurements at Mount Wilson

The ears velocity pattern described in Paper I (Howard et al., 1980) had no physical explanation. A reanalysis shows that the large scale solar velocity patterns are better described by a nonmonotonic limbshift and a meridional flow. The results of the new analysis imply that the study of solar velocity pattern at the level of a few ms^–1 required that magnetic regions be treated separately from nonmagnetic regions.Now at: Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, U.S.A.