Re: sunspot total area peak relative to sunspot number peak

[email protected] (Richard Tobin) Sat, 5 Nov 2022 21:11:19 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups sci.space.policy,sci.astro,alt.astronomy.solar,sci.physics,alt.astronomy,uk.sci.astronomy
Organization Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>,
David Dalton  <[email protected]> wrote:

>I seem to recall that the peak in the total surface area 
>of sunspots happens after the peak in sunspot number,
>so occurs on the right flank of the sunspot number plot.
>Is that the case?

There are data files that might be useful linked from

https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch.shtml

-- Richard