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A new solar–terrestrial relationship

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RECENT suggestions of interrelationships between solar activity, the Earth's magnetic field and the weather1–3 make more urgent the need to have a reliable method of predicting sunspot activity.

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BROWN, G. A new solar–terrestrial relationship. Nature 251, 592–594 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251592a0

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