Long Term Solar Trends

Advisors: Charles Kankelborg and Dibyendu Nandi

My job this summer is to look at sunspot data and solar activity proxy data in search of trends beyond the well-known 11 and 22 year solar cycle. This means that I spend a lot of time in front of my computer manipulating data arrays in IDL. The hardest part about my job is figuring out how to get the data into a form I can use, and then write a program in IDL to automatically complete as much of the data analysis as I possibly can.

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