Ten years of solar change as monitored by SBUV and SBUV/2

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Aug 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3086..341s&link_type=abstract

In its Climate Impact of Solar Variability p 341-348 (SEE N91-12456 03-92)

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Backscattering, Infrared Radiometers, Irradiance, Nimbus 7 Satellite, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Radiation, Sun, Estimating, Modulation, Monitors, Noaa Satellites, Sensitivity, Solar Rotation, Variations

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Observations of the Sun by the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV) instrument aboard Nimbus 7 and the SBUV/2 instrument aboard NOAA-9 reveal variations in the solar irradiance from 1978, to 1988. The maximum to minimum solar change estimated from the Heath and Schlesinger Mg index and wavelength scaling factors is about 4 percent from 210 to 260 nm and 8 percent for 180 to 210 nm; direct measurements of the solar change give values of 1 to 3 percent and 5 to 7 percent, respectively, for the same wavelength range. Solar irradiances were high from the start of observations, late in 1978, until 1983, declined until early 1985, remained approximately constant until mid-1987, and then began to rise. Peak-to-peak 27-day rotational modulation amplitudes were as large as 6 percent at solar maximum and 1 to 2 percent at solar minimum. During occasional intervals of the 1979 to 1983 maximum and again during 1988, the dominant rotational modulation period was 13.5 days. Measurements near 200 to 205 nm show the same rotational modulation behavior but cannot be used to track long-term changes in the Sun because of uncertainties in the characterization of long-term instrument sensitivity changes.

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