Articles | Volume 12, issue 10/11
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-994-1065-5
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-994-1065-5
31 Aug 1994
31 Aug 1994

Long-term variations in the geomagnetic activity level Part II: Ascending phases of sunspot cycles

V. Mussino, O. Borello Filisetti, M. Storini, and H. Nevanlinna

Abstract. Monthly averages of the Helsinki Ak-values have been reduced to the equivalent aa-indices to extend the aa-data set back to 1844. A periodicity of about five cycles was found for the correlation coefficient (r) between geomagnetic indices and sunspot numbers for the ascending phases of sunspot cycles 9 to 22, confirming previous findings based on a minor number of sunspot cycles. The result is useful to researchers in topics related to solar-terrestrial physics, particularly for the interpretation of long-term trends in geomagnetic activity during the past, and to forecast geomagnetic activity levels in the future.