The Magnetic Sun: Reversals and Long-Term Variations

Abstract

A didactic introduction to current thinking on some aspects of the solar dynamo is given for geophysicists and planetary scientists.

arXiv comment17 pages, 9 figures; Space Science Rev., in press

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