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solar activity
(redirected from Solar variation)

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solar activity [′sō·lər ak′tiv·ədē]
(astronomy)
Disturbances on the surface of the sun; examples are sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.


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It's tough to discern the subtle climatic effects of solar variation amidst a cacophony of strong earthly influences--greenhouse gases, volcanoes, sulfate aerosols, to name a few.
But only in the past decade or so have these and other kinds of solar variations begun to be tied to climate shifts on Earth - first tenuously, and more solidly of late.
SDO, the first Space Weather Research network mission in NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program, will help scientists understand how solar variations influence life on earth as well as on technological systems.
 
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