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Twenty years ago, Ohl (1966, 1968) found a correlation between geomagnetic activity around the minimum of the solar cycle and the Wolf sunspot number in the maximum of the following solar cycle. In this paper we shall show that such a relation means indeed a relation between the polar coronal holes area around the minimum of the solar cycle and the sunspot number in the maximum of the next. In fact, a very high positive correlation exists between the temporal evolution of the size of polar coronal holes and the Wolf sunspot number 6.3. years later.
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Bravo, S., Otaola, J.A. Polar coronal holes and the sunspot cycle. A new method to predict sunspot numbers. Sol Phys 122, 335–343 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00913000
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