The Revised Sunspot Record in Comparison to Cosmogenic Radionuclide-Based Solar Activity Reconstructions

Solar Physics

Volumn 291, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 3025-3043

  Muscheler, Raimund ^a   Adolphi, Florian ^a   Herbst, Konstantin ^a   Nilsson, Andreas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

10Be; 14C; Cosmogenic radionuclides; Solar modulation; Solar activity reconstruction; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988703088     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-016-0969-z     Document Type: Article

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