Revisiting the Sunspot Number: A 400-Year Perspective on the Solar Cycle

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 186, Issue 1-4, 2014, Pages 35-103

  Clette, Frédéric ^a   Svalgaard, Leif ^b   Vaquero, José M ^c   Cliver, Edward W ^d  

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Solar activity; Solar cycle; Sun; Sunspot Number; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); SOLAR RADIATION; SOLS; SUN;

ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES; FUTURE PROSPECTS; INHOMOGENEITIES; PRIMARY MODULATIONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; SUNSPOT NUMBER; SUNSPOTS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84920674496     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-014-0074-2     Document Type: Review

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