A homogeneous aa index: 1. Secular variation | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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


Article Number		A53
Number of page(s)		27
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2018038
Published online		03 December 2018

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