sunspots_daily: Daily Sunspot Numbers

Description Format Source See Also Examples

Description

The daily number of sunspots since 1818.

Format

A uts_vector object. The first time series contains the estimated daily total number of sunspots. The second time series is the estimated standard deviation of the raw numbers provided by all measurement stations. The third time series contains the number of observations used to compute the daily estimate.

Source

This dataset was imported by download_sunspots_daily in June 2018 from http://www.sidc.be/silso/datafiles. For a detailed description see http://www.sidc.be/silso/infosndtot.

WDC-SILSO, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels

See Also

download_sunspots_daily gets the most recent data.

For monthly sunspot numbers, see sunspot.month and sunspots in base R.

For yearly sunspot numbers, see sunspot.year in base R.

Examples

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plot(sunspots_daily$number)
plot(sunspots_daily$num_obs)

# Examine observation time differences
times <- sunspots_daily$number$times
table(round(difftime(times[-1], times[-length(times)], unit="day")))

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