Statistical properties of solar Hα flare activity | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles and their space weather impacts

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 7, 2017 Flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles and their space weather impacts


Article Number		A34
Number of page(s)		11
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2017038
Published online		22 December 2017

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