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The height of the 9 cm solar emission

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The large values of the heights, their dependence on latitude and time as found by Graf and Bracewell can satisfactorily be explained by assuming a constant height of around 18000 km and by taking into account that the microwave sources do not lay above the spots but above the plages.

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Waldmeier, M. The height of the 9 cm solar emission. Sol Phys 57, 369–371 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00160109

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