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Pages 135-140

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From page 135...
... The USGCRP is motivated by the realization that global change can have tremendous impact on conditions essential to life on earth. This realization provides the basis for prioritization among the various components that can be expected to comprise a USGCRP scientific element on Solar Influences on Global Change.
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From page 136...
... in lieu of a spacecraft series dedicated to solar monitoring, it may be possible to use the NOAA or DMSP operational satellites, for which overlapping is a feature of their design. Additional Recommendations To augment the prime monitoring task, a suite of efforts from diverse geophysical research fields is needed to achieve the USGCRP objectives of monitoring, understanding, and predicting solar influences on global change.
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From page 137...
... Toward this end, continue, without interruption, to monitor from ground based observatories the relevant proxy data, in particular certain relative spectral irradiances (such as the He T and Ca IT indices, and the 10.7 cm flux) and solar images that display magnetic active regions (using, for example, full disk magnetograms, and He I, Ca lI, and white light spectroheliograms)
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From page 138...
... A reliable theory of the solar activity cycle, of longer term variability, and of stellar dynamos in general will require physical descriptions of the processes that successfully reproduce solar phenomena observed over a number of solar cycles. Reliable monitoring of solar diameter could help to understand solar variability processes.
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From page 139...
... Analysis of solar soft X-ray forcing of nitric oxide levels, with possible inferences for nitrate deposits in ice cores, is an example of such a study. Ultimately, a global mode} of the Earth system is needed.
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