Distribution of the Daily Sunspot Number Variation for the Last 14 Solar Cycles

Solar Physics

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 351-361

  Pop, M I ^a  

^a TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

Solar cycle, models; Sunspots, statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856096258     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-011-9871-x     Document Type: Article

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