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Cycle forecasts

12-month forecasts of the monthly sunspot number

  • Standard curves method (Waldmeier)
   
  • Combined method (Denkmayr - Cugnon)
   
  • McNish&Lincoln method
   

Optimization of base predictions using a Kalman filter

For more info concerning this method : 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-011-9899-y

For any scientific use please refer to this paper

  • Standard method prediction (Kalman)
  
  • Combined method prediction (Kalman)
  
  • McNish & Lincoln method prediction (Kalman)
  

Data Credits: The Sunspot Number data can be freely downloaded. However, we request that proper credit to the WDC-SILSO is explicitely included in any publication using our data (paper article or book, on-line Web content, etc.), e.g.: "Source: WDC-SILSO, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels".


For additonal information, contact Laure Lefèvre (E_mail: silso.info@oma.be )  
Royal Observatory of Belgium Av. Circulaire, 3 - B-1180 Brussels, Belgium