The Revised Brussels–Locarno Sunspot Number (1981 – 2015)

Solar Physics

Volumn 291, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 2733-2761

  Clette, Frédéric ^a   Lefèvre, Laure ^a   Cagnotti, Marco ^b   Cortesi, Sergio ^b   Bulling, Andreas ^c  

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b Specola Solare Ticinese ^*  (Switzerland)

^c Vereinigung der Sternfreunde   (Germany)

Author keywords

Solar cycle, observations; Sunspots, statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963644357     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-016-0875-4     Document Type: Article

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