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A decrease in solar and geomagnetic activity from cycle 19 to cycle 24

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Variations in the solar and geomagnetic activity from cycle 19 to cycle 24 were considered based on data from the magnetic observatories of the Russian-Ukrainian INTERMAGNET segment and international centers of data on solar-terrestrial physics. It has been indicated that activity decreases over the course of time. This is especially evident during the cycle 24 growth phase. The possible causes and consequences of a decrease in geomagnetic activity were analyzed.

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  1. Geophysical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    A. D. Gvishiani & A. A. Soloviev

  2. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995, Russia

    A. D. Gvishiani & A. A. Soloviev

  3. Subbotin Institute of Geophysics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

    V. I. Starostenko, Yu. P. Sumaruk & O. V. Legostaeva

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Original Russian Text © A.D. Gvishiani, V.I. Starostenko, Yu.P. Sumaruk, A.A. Soloviev, O.V. Legostaeva, 2015, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2015, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 314–322.

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Gvishiani, A.D., Starostenko, V.I., Sumaruk, Y.P. et al. A decrease in solar and geomagnetic activity from cycle 19 to cycle 24. Geomagn. Aeron. 55, 299–306 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793215030093

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