Estimates of solar variability using the solar backscatter ultraviolet (SBUV) 2 Mg II index from the NOAA 9 satellite

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Jul 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....9711613c&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. D11, July 20, 1992, p. 11,613-11,620.

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Nimbus 7 Satellite, Noaa 9 Satellite, Solar Backscatter Uv Spectrometer, Solar Radiation, Ultraviolet Radiation, Line Spectra, Solar Cycles, Solar Rotation

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The Mg II core to wing index was first developed for the Nimbus 7 solar backscatter ultraviolet (SBUV) instrument as an indicator of solar variability on both solar 27-day rotational and solar cycle time scales. This work extends the Mg II index to the NOAA 9 SBUV 2 instrument and shows that the variations in absolute value between Mg II index data sets caused by interinstrument differences do not affect the ability to track temporal variations. The NOAA 9 Mg II index accurately represents solar rotational modulation but contains more day-to-day noise than the Nimbus 7 Mg II index. Solar variability at other UV wavelengths is estimated by deriving scale factors between the Mg II index rotational variations and at those selected wavelengths. Based on the 27-day average of the NOAA 9 Mg II index and the NOAA 9 scale factors, the solar irradiance change from solar minimum in September 1986 to the beginning of the maximum of solar cycle 22 in 1989 is estimated to be 8.6 percent at 205 nm, 3.5 percent at 250 nm, and less than 1 percent beyond 300 nm.

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