Assessing the relationship between spectral solar irradiance and stratospheric ozone using Bayesian inference | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 4, 2014


Article Number		A25
Number of page(s)		10
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2014023
Published online		15 September 2014

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