Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1979
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Solar Physics, Volume 63, Issue 2, pp.423-432
Physics
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Scientific paper
Dates of solar maxima and minima extending back to c. 1610 were estimated by Wolf and Wolfer at Zürich (Waldmeier, 1961) in the nineteenth century, and those back to c. 1710 have been generally accepted. Slight modifications have already been suggested by the author (Schove, 1967) for the seventeenth century, although, in that century, even the existence of the eleven-year cycle has been questioned (Eddy, 1976). In the course of any sunspot cycle we find a pattern of the aurorae in place and time characteristic of sunspot cycles of the particular amplitude-class. These patterns since c. 1710 can be linked to the precise dates of the Zürich turning-points by a set of empirical rules. A sunspot rule is based on the Gnevyshev gap, the gap in large sunspots near the ‘smoothed’ maximum. These rules are here applied to the period c. 1510 1710 to give improved determination of earlier turning-points, and approximately confirm the dates given for the seventeenth century by Wolfer and for most of the later sixteenth century by Link (1978). Some turning-points for the fifteenth century and revised sunspot numbers for the period 1700 48 are also given.
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