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To gain insight into the relationships between solar activity, the occurrence and variability of coronal holes, and the association of such holes with solar wind features such as high-velocity streams, a study of the period 1963–1974 was made. This period corresponds approximately with sunspot cycle 20. The primary data used for this work consisted of X-ray and XUV solar images obtained from rockets. The investigation revealed that:
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The polar coronal holes prominent at solar minimum, decreased in area as solar activity increased and were small or absent at maximum phase. This evolution exhibited the same phase difference between the two hemispheres that was observed in other indicators of activity.
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During maximum, coronal holes occurred poleward of the sunspot belts and in the equatorial region between them. The observed equatorial holes were small and persisted for one or two solar rotations only; some high latitude holes had lifetimes exceeding two solar rotations.
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During 1963–74 whenever XUV or X-ray images were available, nearly all recurrent solar wind streams of speed ⩾500 km s−1 were found associated with coronal holes at less than 40° latitude; however some coronal holes appeared to have no associated wind streams at the Earth.
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Broussard, R.M., Sheeley, N.R., Tousey, R. et al. A survey of coronal holes and their solar wind associations throughout sunspot cycle 20. Sol Phys 56, 161–183 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00152641
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