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Long Term Solar Activity

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In this chapter we discuss long term solar activity behavior. We first address the problem of how we can get longer time series of solar activity since telescopic observations of sunspots reach back only to 1610, when Galileo and others first observed them.

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    This event affected telegraph networks.

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    See textbooks.

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    L\(\alpha \) denotes the Lyman Alpha line which is in the UV at \(\lambda = 121.5\) nm.

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Hanslmeier, A. (2020). Long Term Solar Activity. In: The Chaotic Solar Cycle. Atmosphere, Earth, Ocean & Space. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9821-0_5

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