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Solar History - An Introduction (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Solar History - An Introduction (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Astronomy
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Beyond the four centuries of sunspot observation and the five
decades during which artificial satellites have monitored the Sun
that is to say for 99.99999% of the Sun 's existence our knowledge
of solar history depends largely on analogy with kindred main
sequence stars, on the outcome of various kinds of modelling, and
on indirect measures of solar activity. They include the analysis
of lunar rocks and meteorites for evidence of solar flares and
other components of the solar cosmic-ray (SCR) flux, and the
measurement of cosmogenic isotopes in wood, stratified ice and
marine sediments to evaluate changes in the galactic cosmic-ray
(GCR) flux and thus infer changes in the sheltering magnetic fields
of the solar wind. In addition, shifts in the global atmospheric
circulation which appear to result from cyclic fluctuations in
solar irradiance have left their mark in river sediments and in the
isotopic composition of cave deposits. In this volume the results
these sources have already produced have been summarised, paying
special attention to those that reflect processes in different
parts of the Sun 's interior and that display periodicities and
trends which may enable us to forecast future large-scale
environmental changes.
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