Using new measurements of positions of individual sunspots and sunspot groups obtained from 62 years of the Mt. Wilson white-light plate collection, we have recomputed the correlation between longitude and latitude motion. Our results for groups are similar to those of Ward (1965a) computed from the
Correlation of parameters characterizing the latitudinal distribution of sunspots
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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1384-1076
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