Solar cycle prediction

Living Reviews in Solar Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Petrovay, Kristóf ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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DOI: 10.12942/lrsp-2010-6     Document Type: Review

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