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Author:   F.R. Stephenson ,  A.W. Wolfendale
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1988 ed.
Volume:   236
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.060kg
ISBN:  

9789027727558

ISBN 10:   9027727554
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   31 July 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section I. The Sun.- Variability of the Present and Ancient Sun: a test of Solar Uniformitarianism.- The Sun among the Stars: What Stars Indicate about Solar Variability.- Long and Short Cycles in Solar Activity during the last Millennia.- Is the Solar Cycle an Example of Deterministic Chaos?.- Fast Dynamos with Flux Expulsion.- The Pattern of Large-scale Convection in the Sun.- Section II. The Sun from Historical Records.- Solar Variability from Historical Records.- The Behaviour of Solar Activity as Inferred from Sunspot Observations 165 B.C. to 1986.- Solar, Geomagnetic and Auroral Variations Observed in Historical data.- Analysis of Pre-telescopic and Telescopic Sunspot Observations.- Seasonal and Secular Variations of the Oriental Sunspot Sightings.- The Solar Diameter since 1715.- Section III. The Sun and Climate.- The Climate of the Past 10,000 Years and the Role of the Sun.- The Climatic Impact of Secular Variations in Solar Irradiance.- Section IV. Solar and Geomagnetic Signals in Cosmogenic Nuclides and Sea Sediments.- The Solar Component of the Atmospheric 14C Record.- Production and Decay of Radiocarbon and its Modulation by Geomagnetic Field-Solar Activity changes with Possible Implications for Global Environment.- 10Be as a Proxy Indicator of Variations in Solar Activity and Geomagnetic Field Intensity during the last 10,000 Years.- Temporal 10Be Variations in Ice: Information on Solar Activity and Geomagnetic Field Intensity.- Model Comparison of 14C and 10Be Isotope Records.- The Dependence of Cosmogenic Isotope Production Rate on Solar Activity and Geomagnetic Field Variations.- Solar Imprint in Sea Sediments: the Thermoluminescence Profile as a New Proxy Record.- Section V. The Earth’s Magnetic Field.- Secular Variations of the Geomagnetic Field -theArchaeomagnetic Record.- The Geomagnetic Field over the Last 200 Years.- Geomagnetic Field and Radiocarbon Activity through Holocene Time.- Geomagnetic Secular Variation as Determined from Paleomagnetic Studies of Lake Sediments and its Relation to the Study of the Cosmic Ray Flux.- Archeomagnetic Results from United States, 10,000 BC to Present, and with some Data from MesoAmerica.- Geomagnetic Intensity Measurements from Northern Greece and their Comparison with other Data from Central and N. Eastern Europe for the Period 0-2000 yr AD.- Section VI. Cosmic Rays, the Earth and Cosmology.- The Sun and Cosmic Rays.- Terrestrial Variations within given Energy, Mass and Momentum Budgets; Paleoclimate, Sea Level, Paleomagnetism, Differential Rotation and Geodynamics.- Geophysical Observations over the Last Few Millennia and their Implications.- Astronomy: Evolution of Evolution.

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