Origin and Use of the Laplace Distribution in Daily Sunspot Numbers

Solar Physics

Volumn 282, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 565-578

  Noble, P L ^a   Wheatland, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Solar cycle, models; Sunspots, statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871923791     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-012-0155-x     Document Type: Article

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