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Shining a light on solar impacts

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Comparing changes in temperature and solar radiation on centennial timescales can help to constrain the Sun's impact on climate. New findings regarding the minimum activity level of the Sun reveal that comparisons made so far may have been too simplistic.

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Figure 1: Loops in the Sun's magnetic field.

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  1. Mike Lockwood is at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, UK and at RAL Space, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK,

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Lockwood, M. Shining a light on solar impacts. Nature Clim Change 1, 98–99 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1096

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