Space climate and space weather over the past 400 years: 2. Proxy indicators of geomagnetic storm and substorm occurrence | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 8, 2018


Article Number		A12
Number of page(s)		19
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2017048
Published online		16 February 2018

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