The proposed "Waldmeier discontinuity": How does it affect to sunspot cycle characteristics

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Aparicio, Alejandro Jesús Pérez ^a   Vaquero, José Manuel ^a   Gallego, María Cruz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Historical records; Solar activity; Solar cycle; Space climate; Sunspot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894424334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21157251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2012012     Document Type: Article

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