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SCHWABE'S discovery of the eleven-year sunspot cycle was soon followed by the recognition of a parallel cycle in the variations of the earth's magnetic field. Since then long series of solar and terrestrial observations have been accumulated. Magnetic observations, though still generally made in the manner introduced by Gauss, have been extended widely over the earth, while remarkable developments in the technique of solar observation have provided a wealth of detailed knowledge of solar phenomena. Yet although great advances have been made in establishing correlations between the two sets of data, some of the principal relationships remain obscure, and some important lines of investigation have yet received little attention.
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CHAPMAN, S. The Correlation of Solar and Terrestrial Magnetic Phenomena. Nature 121, 989–991 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121989a0
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